{"id":3043,"date":"2013-06-17T16:53:48","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T08:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saporedicina.com\/english\/?p=3043"},"modified":"2022-02-14T10:39:36","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T09:39:36","slug":"lhasa-tibet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saporedicina.com\/english\/lhasa-tibet\/","title":{"rendered":"What do you expect from Lhasa, the capital of Tibet?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TravelPotala Palace view’s from Jokhang Temple<\/span><\/p>\n

When I arrived in Lhasa all I could think about was that I needed a shower. I got there by train and it was two days that I couldn’t get one.<\/p>\n

Besides that, I felt a sense of accomplishment. When I was a teenager I could imagine myself traveling to Paris, or even Los Angeles… after all I had seen these places in so many movies. It seemed possible.<\/p>\n

But going to Tibet? No way. <\/p>\n

Then again, sometimes reality goes beyond fantasy and here I was, at 3,650 meters of altitude, just in front of the exit of Lhasa’s train station.<\/p>\n

Are we missing anyone?<\/h2>\n

The third thing I thought was “Where the hell is our tour guide?” <\/p>\n

It was two days that I didn’t see him (since we left from Beijing) and I’m not used to following a guide. But you aren’t allow to travel to Tibet by yourself, as I’ve explained on my guide to Tibet<\/a><\/strong>. So here I was… looking for our chubby Tibetan guide.<\/strong><\/p>\n

After about twenty minutes the guide was able to gather all the people that were traveling with me. There were my three friends, two Russian girls, a bunch of international students from Beijing Language and Culture University (BLCU), a Korean guy and six or seven Chinese people.<\/p>\n