Würzburg – heftige Minus-Temperaturen. Der verwöhnte Unterfranke hat jetzt wieder allen Grund, über das Wetter zu schimpfen. Aber ich finde – tolle Gelegenheit für schöne Fotos – seht selbst:
I traveled back to Beijing with the Qinghai–Xizang Rrailway. It’s an 48h trip and i consider you taking a softsleeper ticket. This is the First Class, you have a small cabin with 4 beds. In the second class you have 6 beds in the cabin. If you are on a tight budget, take soft-seater or hard-seater class. The washing rooms are on the corridor, and you can get hot water from the fix installed water boilers. Read more…
Pictures from the bus tour back to Lhasa. Read more…
This are pictures from the bus tour from Lhasa to Shigatse. Read more…
Sera Monastery is the place where tourists can see the famous monk debates. I suffered from hard headache and so only took a few fotos. For more details on sera monastery please visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sera_Monastery. Read more…
Potala Palace was the political center of Tibet and the residence of Daila Lama till he flew to India in 1959. For detailed information’s on Potala Palace please visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potala_Palace.
If possible, ask for a tour were you can stay more than one hour in the White Palace of Potala Palace – we had to hurry through the most interesting part of Potala Palace in under an hour. If the travel agency is not allowed to expand this hour try to enter several times so you have more time for the rooms.
The Jokhang Temple is the most sacred and most important temple for Tibetan. It’s not the Potala Palace nearly everybody knows, because Potala Palace was the political center of Tibet and the chief residence of the Daila Lama. For more details please visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jokhang.
Jokhang temple is full of pilgrims and tourists. The pilgrims have to queue up to the normal line waiting for hours to enter the temple, and the tourist have a special lane to enter really really quick without the need to wait. The pilgrims are of all age, they are carrying their babies or helping old people. They are drinking butter tee to get energy for the stressing pilgrim’s way. Read more…
As I told you before I wanted to visit the chinese province Tibet. I was not sure if I should wait for next year to spend 2 or more weeks in Tibet and if one week would be enough for this fantastic place on earth – but I’m very glad i did it. But be aware that Tibet is such a big province of China so that in one week you can only have a very short look on lhasa, shigatse and the famous monasteries and palast. It is definitly not enough time to get close to the Tibetan culture. So my advice – if you want to get a first impresion of Tibet to decide wether to come again for a closer look a one week bus trip should do it, but if you realy want to explore Tibet plan a private jeep tour with a tibetan travel agency for three or more weeks. So I decided to check Tibet for a week – and after that week I’m sure I want to visit Tibet again, but with more time and a private tour guide so i can ask a lot more questions. Read more…
On day 18 of my China trip my sister and i visited the great wall at mutianyu. If you don’t want to climb up to the wall using the stairs, you can buy a ticket and use a cable car. And also think about of getting down from the wall, we used the “Toboggan-Run” sport slide, the german word is “sommerrodelbahn”. This makes a lot of fun if you don’t have slow driving people in front of you, if so, wait a while till you start.
After you climbed the great wall you will be hungry – the best location nearby is the Great Wall School House. It’s not a typical chinese restaurant, they are serving slow food there. It is delicious! And they have a glassblower facility there, so you (and your children) can watch them doing their artwork.
At day 16 we visited the Olympic area to watch the Beijing marathon. It was hard to get there because the subway was closed and we needed to walk a long way. Another thing was – the entry was not signed clearly – there was only one entry. After walking about 3km we found the entrance. It was a security entrance with metal detectors and security personal. I tried to pass, but they did not let me through. The security person only shaked his head and pointed to a little shop, i thought i must by a ticket. But this wasn’t a ticket shop. The son of my sister just passed another security gate and so we all followed him – this was just 2m away from the man who did not let me passed. Read more…
