Tibet: A Picture Story (Part 2)

Day One in Tibet (Lhasa):

elevation sickness, anyone? (Lhasa is 3900 m)
my cousin using an oxygen pillow!

breakfast on the go

Potola Palace: former residence of the Dalai Lama
everything inside (pictures not allowed) is gold-leafed and resplendent
the Potola palace is one of the few places preserved during the Cultural Revolution (many of the other monasteries we visited were destroyed and rebuilt in the past two decades, but of significantly inferior detail and quality)

a door in the Potola Palace

these flags are everywhere, on the side of the road, on rooftops, on hills, representing luck and longevity
blue = sky, white = clouds, red = fire, green = water, yellow = earth

along the walls of the Potola Palace: Buddhist scriptures carved in Tibetan

a Tibetan window