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Designing the travel schedule all by yourself is a moderately exciting thing .It can help ignoring the time restrictions of the travelling agencies and get more interaction with the natives. This August, I went to Tibet with my mother and three of her friends, but I planned the whole trip schedule, so may be the experience can help you know more about Tibet..
THE PORTALA PALACE
"if you don't go to potala palace ,you will never understand how pious our tibetans are ."said one Tibetan guide.
you pay your attention to the floor of podala,its as smooth as the best silk of china ,made of red clay and the so called "suyou"which is the daily food of tibetan.100 kg of milk can only produce 5kg "suyou",however the Tibetans always give the best "suyou "they made to the potala temple -----for maintaining the smooth of floor ,lighting ...
shirleyaa 10.11.2009
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Advantages: Entrancing, informative, awe-inspiring Disadvantages: Not an easy read - one to be studied
Tibet. These days it much less a country than an idea, perhaps even an emotion. To the shameful silence of the rest of the planet the Chinese marched into Tibet in 1950 and half-a-century later their ruthless eradication of people and culture continues.
To anyone interested in precisely what it is the world has lost as a result of this: I recommend a reading of Maraini's "Secret Tibet" ~ in particular the updated version first published in 1998, and more recently reissued in paperback in 2002.
Maraini was born in Florence in November 1912, and lived to the age of 91. One obituary (available on The Guardian website www.guardian.co.uk) describes him as the "Italian travel writer, poet, ethnologist, explorer and photographer" - and that was only part of it. He lectured in literature. Above all, he was perhaps, an eternal student ...
Heinrich Harrer is a self centred man, he is also a national hero for his prowess as a mountaineer, and as such has travelled to the Himalayas to conquer one of its peaks, on behalf of Austria and its Nazi government. He is also running away from a loveless marriage and the fear of fatherhood, he is running away from himself more than anything. So begins Seven Years in Tibet.
As a member of the national expedition we see Harrer (Brad Pitt) for what he really is, an arrogant loner filled with dreams of self glory rather than the team work needed to conquer the mountain. The expedition fails and to make matters worse, on their return to the foothills of India they find themself under arrest. War has broken out in Europe and they are german nationals on empire soil. After spending most of the war in a British prison camp, Harrer and his ...
