"In the time between the two wars, a British colonial officer said that with the invention of the airplane the world has no secrets left. However, he said, there is one last mystery. There is a large country on the Roof of the World, where strange things happen. There are monks who have the ability to separate mind from body, shamans and oracles who make government decisions, and a God-King who lives in a skyscraper-like palace in the Forbidden City of Lhasa." - Heinrich Harrer, Seven Years in Tibet
We arrived late in the afternoon and had a long drive from the airport to our hotel in Lhasa. We drove thorough a mountain (3 mile tunnel) and made a stop along the way at the first of many monasteries.
Our hotel is right in the center of the busiest part of Lhasa, and very close to the oldest part of the city, dating back to the 7th century. We had dinner in our hotel and retired early, as some of us were having difficulty adjusting to the altitude.
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