the most important thing about lhasa is the relaxed pace of life. there isn't much shopping or formal entertainment, so money goes mostly to living expenses and supporting monasteries. the rest of the time is spent chatting, watching street life, and existing.
14 June, 2005
bedroom
i'm still not sure how we ended up with these psychadelic sheets. desperate i think to cover what was on the bed before. notice keely's stuffed yak.
study
again, dsl internet and ipod music. sort of crazy to have in a place like lhasa, or so i thought. but like other parts of china, it is quickly modernizing technologically. though no clean water of course, sanitation always seems to lag behind the internet in developing countries.
kitchen
the cold water drips incessantly no matter how hard i bear down on it. no hot water, but the propane stove works great. and we found a nepali grovery that imports spanish olive oil, so we could retire the rapeseed oil that i have serious problems with.
pit stop
the squat toilet is normal. keely thinks it's great but personally i like reading the new yorker from a more relaxed position. however, we've adjusted fine and frankly it's a perfectly funcitonal bathroom. one little room with shower, sink, and toilet.
nice shower
the shower comes out hard and fast and is warm between 3pm and 8pm usually, since it is gravity fed from solar heaters on the roof.
13 June, 2005
cement plant
we've taken few photos showing the immense level of construction going on in and around lhasa, but the chinese are bulding building building. this is one of three cement plants i saw on the way into town.
desert farming
notice the giant sand dunes on the mountains in the distance. farmers here grow what they can, usually rapeseed.
not just a range
we flew over an entire country of snow-coverd peaks on the way to lhasa from chengdu.
food?
i'm afraid i couldn't actually touch anything on this tray. hard to trust fish in china in general, let alone on air china to tibet.
lhasa
there is a little red dot that is supposed to give you a general idea of where lhasa is. i don't have it mapped exactly by lat/long coordinates. only an approximate location southeast of the large lake Nam-tso.
04 June, 2005
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