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The birthday party is not Tibet

The Chinese effort to celebrate in style on the establishment of the Lhasa Tibet Autonomous Region is, for the native population, something like the non-birthday of Alice in Wonderland. Pure paradox: a...

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The world's cheapest menu

Travel to Tibet and do not visit a Buddhist monastery is like being in Port Aventura and not the Dragon Khan ride or go to 'Lucio' for the first time and not asking about broken eggs. The advantage of...

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Will: Burials “heavenly” and child-lama Spanish

The monk said a cliff above 4.000 meters, east of Sera monastery, where there is evident a rustic stone house. Tibetans, account, carry their dead at dawn to solitary cliffs like this to butcher them...

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Himalayan bike or how to dilute the self-esteem in a nanosecond

We met him by chance on the streets of Lhasa hours before heading to Everest Base Camp. There Richard, Vitoria firefighter traveling alone. Going to make our own path, the 1.100 kilometers from the...

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Norbulingka: the “driving school” The Dalai Lama

The summer palace of the highest spiritual authority of Buddhism, the "Jewel Park", is the antithesis of the city-fortress of the Potala. In the walled garden outside the current Dalai Lama Lhasa,...

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Tibet: en las entrañas del Potala

Top of the buttresses that support the Potala to plunge into the heart of the former winter palace of the Dalai Lama is like crossing the drawbridge of one of those castles of Amadis of Gaul that lit...

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A cross the Himalayas with a rookie driver

As we left Lhasa, Bumble each of the buttons on the dashboard to make sure what they are. Circulates 50 km / h, are continuing their sharp braking and cornering takes every invading the wrong lane,...

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Lake Yamdrok: Buddhist monastery that saved the woman-pig

En route to Everest, the fascinating Lake Turquoise looked three centuries ago, by the highest mountain range on earth, the most famous female reincarnation of Tibet. Es un paisaje apabullante que está...

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