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Stairway Carved From Sandstone
Staircase that gains access to the upper ramparts of the Giant Bhudda.
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Steps Carved In Stone-Giant Buddha
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Bamboo, Buddhist Temple
A very Chinese scene
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Chinese Bridge
Bridge near fishing village cum fish restaurant area, Sichuan, Central China.
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Airport Fruit Seller
The fruit at this fruit stand was really expensive, but they had everything:...
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Mountains From Airplane
Here we are on the plane, headed to Lhasa. I don't know the name of this...
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Return To Sender
So solly, but due to high rinds, we cannot rand in Rasa. The plane was...
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Food at Agricultural Hotel
When our flight to Lhasa was turned back due to bad weather, Air China...
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Steps Leading To Potala Palace
At 3,650 meters, or about 12,000 feet above sea level, there's not much...
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Potala Administrative Region
Here we are in front of the entrance to the White Section, or administrative...
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Potala View
Looking north beyond Lhasa to the arid, Tibetan mts. There's no sewage...
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Descending Potala
Tibetans descending the Potala Palace, after prostrating, praying,...
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Potala Blue Sky
We only had weather like this, well, one day in Tibet. The rest of the...
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Jokang Temple View
We finally made it to Lhasa, and our guide and driver from Access...
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Sera Monastery
We went to the Sera Monastery but it was closed. The cobblestones we could...
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Tashilumpo Monastery
We didn't go inside. After Jokhang Temple and Potala Palace, we...
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Communist Monument To Godlessness
This obelisk, eerily similar to that one found in Stanley Kubrick's 2001,...
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Potala From Afar
Potala Palace, Lhasa, Tibet
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Looking Down At Where We Were
When we drove from Lhasa to Shigatse, we took this road. We went over three...
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Yomdrok Lake
This was our first pass when we drove from Lhasa to Shigatse. The wind...
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Karola Glacier
That's Sun-me in front of the Karola Glacier. The air was really...
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Karola Glacier Sod House
Another staged photo. I think I paid 5 yuan for this shot, highway robbery....
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Yak Silhouette
Took this picture on the way from Lhasa to Shigatse. We are now about...
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Prayer Flags
Batchoo and Pemba, or driver and guide, attacing prayer flags to an...
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On Way To Shigatse
The restaurant between Lhasa and Shigatse, where we stopped for lunch....
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