charlescfenwick.com

I took a trip a few years back with my sister. She was living in Hong Kong at the time and I was at her place and she mentioned that she could take some time off and if I could go some place, where would I want to go? Some of the choices that were thrown out there where like Main Land China or New Zeland. Then it hit me…. Tibet.

So a few days later off we went to Tibet. It was a fun trip on the way there we had two layovers so I got to see some parts of Main Land China.

Tibet was beautiful the air smelled fresh all the time, you could get a coke and some M&Ms but there was not a McDonald’s in sight. Where else can you get an 80 degree temperature swing from day to night. It was beautiful but at 10,000+ feet above sea level breathing becomes a problem. Simple task such as walking up two stairs, not two flights but two stairs while carrying some luggage, was a like running a marathon, at the least it was the first night we got there. Eventually things got slightly easier. I did resist the urge to rent an oxygen tank, because they were available, but I didn’t want to hang on to that crutch the whole time I was there, plus what kind of jack ass would I look like walking around with that thing in tow.

The food was wonderful pretty much all meat there was yak. I really enjoyed yak and I figured, outside of coming back to Tibet I probably wouldn’t get that many chances to try yak, so I lived it up. Too bad I’m allergic to yak. Stomach pains constant feeling I’m going to vomit, and all my muscle were sore. For most normal people they might catch on after eating something that does this to them maybe after 2 or 3 times. Not me took me 5 miserable days of just toughing it out.

We saw a bunch of palaces met a bunch of cool people, had lots of rice tea. It was over all a wonderful experience, despite the constant feeling I’m suffocating and the yak meat making me want to vomit, I would do it all over again in a heart beat.

Heres some random pictures from around Lhasa, not that many I’ll post more, but I at least want to say something about each picture rather than just a mass post of all that I have.