Devout Tibetans spend hours a day spinning aprayer wheel, a metal cylinder on a handle witha small weight attached. Inside is a scroll withBuddhist prayers, and they believe that by spinningthe wheel, prayers are sent [...]
Potala Palace is supposed to be the home of theDalai Lama, who escaped Tibet in 1959 before theCultural Revolution. Amazing that the ChineseGovernment, now so involved in limiting the livesof Tibetans, honors them with this [...]
Yak. Butter. Candles. We saw a few!At Yamdrok Lake in Tibet. Yes, I'm riding a yak.It's what you do in Tibet!Gods can be fierce in Buddhism.This one is fighting the god of death.The Tibetan canon [...]
Yak butter candles at Rong Pu Monastery, thehighest monastery on earth, next to Mt. Everest.I'll never forget how they smelled, or how theywarmed the small room. Rong Pu is a sacred spot to pray before makingthe [...]
Strike a pose, girl!Children work in Tibet. We frequentlysaw them in the fields. Organized childlabor is discouraged, but many familyoperations use their children.Ready to watch mama do the washing.No TV or smartphone to distract thiskid, [...]
Sending postcards from the highest post office inthe world! We're trying so hard to look warm! Also discussingthe merits of drinking water at altitude, vs. gettingup at night to use the pit toilet with a [...]
Mt. Everest, or Mt. Qomolangma as it's known in Tibet, in all her glory. Mt. Everest was officially named after the British Surveyor General, George Everest, because there were so many different local names. The international border between Tibet and Nepal divides the precise [...]
Oh, we're off the beaten path now! Kathy and I atthe Everest Snow Leopard Guest House. Tibetan prayer flags. The colors represent the fiveelements: blue (sky), white (wind), red (fire), green (water),yellow (earth). According to Tibetan [...]
Chinese police were at checkpoints everytwenty minutes in Tibet. Each one has theright to look at permits, passports, have travelers get out of the car. They have a narrow time window for your car to reachthe [...]
A hearty welcome to the Nepal Tibetborder. Looks like it will be cold here!News photo of the landslide in Nepal caused bytorrential rains in August. Hundreds lost their lives,many more were displaced from their homes [...]
The specs: 112 ft. tall, weighs 250 tons, madeof bronze. Built in 1993, it was the largestoutdoor seated Buddha in the world until 2007.There are over 200 pieces of bronze weldedover a heavy steel frame. We [...]
At a pricetag of $1.2 billion USD, and aticket price of $7 USD, it will take awhile for the return on investment. It currently operates at 20% capacity.We hurtled at the top speed of 430km/h (267 mph) for [...]