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We were staying at Flora Hotel in the Muslim quarter in the old part of the city, which we were glad about. We had a very chilled first day acclimatising to our high surroundings as Lhasa is 3700 metres above sea level and it was also quite hot and we’d been up since the crack of dawn so it was ace to have a super chilled afternoon! After some welcomed chilled time we ventured out, thankfully Lhasa is relatively traffic free in the old part only the odd motorbike to watch out for, unfortunately we walked the wrong way around the main square, only because we didn’t know the tradition for religious reasons says that everybody has to walk clockwise round the Jokhang Temple - I must admit we did wonder why everyone was going the other way! Went to a cool rooftop bar and sampled the local nosh, it was a very nice change from Chinese, very yum. Didn’t really do much else for the rest of the day as we were feeling the affects a little from the
We were staying at Flora Hotel in the Muslim quarter in the old part of the city, which we were glad about. We had a very chilled first day acclimatising to our high surroundings as Lhasa is 3700 metres above sea level and it was also quite hot and we’d been up since the crack of dawn so it was ace to have a super chilled afternoon! After some welcomed chilled time we ventured out, thankfully Lhasa is relatively traffic free in the old part only the odd motorbike to watch out for, unfortunately we walked the wrong way around the main square, only because we didn’t know the tradition for religious reasons says that everybody has to walk clockwise round the Jokhang Temple - I must admit we did wonder why everyone was going the other way! Went to a cool rooftop bar and sampled the local nosh, it was a very nice change from Chinese, very yum. Didn’t really do much else for the rest of the day as we were feeling the affects a little from the
altitude.
We had decided by this point that we were going to try and arrange an overland trip via Everest base camp as it seemed the right kinda thing to do, we had missed out on so much of Mongolia’s countryside due to time restrictions so we defo didn’t want to rush through Tibet. We had a visit planned to the Jokhang Temple and then an afternoon free which we thought would be an ideal time to sort out a trip.
The Jokhang Temple is in the centre of the old part of Lhasa and was built in the mid 7th century A.D. It is an incredible 4 storey building with an amazing golden roof, the entrance is in the main square and has a huge number of pilgrims outside most of which are prostrating, which is a strange affair, basically people just lie down and make like a breast stroke arm
We had decided by this point that we were going to try and arrange an overland trip via Everest base camp as it seemed the right kinda thing to do, we had missed out on so much of Mongolia’s countryside due to time restrictions so we defo didn’t want to rush through Tibet. We had a visit planned to the Jokhang Temple and then an afternoon free which we thought would be an ideal time to sort out a trip.
The Jokhang Temple is in the centre of the old part of Lhasa and was built in the mid 7th century A.D. It is an incredible 4 storey building with an amazing golden roof, the entrance is in the main square and has a huge number of pilgrims outside most of which are prostrating, which is a strange affair, basically people just lie down and make like a breast stroke arm