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Highway to Lhasa

14 May, 2009

This is our traveling day. We started early from Kathmandu to our destination Lhasa. Mr. Wongchu was a wonderful man to have on the airport. We were glad to have him. He helped us all the security to the boarding.

The flight to Lhasa was 1 hour and 20 minutes on brand new air china aircraft. On the way we crossed Himalaya Ranges. Some of us saw the beautiful view of Mt. Everest and other high mountain.

At the Lhasa airport we had to stay on the plane for at least an hour for inspection from the doctor. They measured our body temperature to see if any one of us have swain flu. It’s nice no one of us had swain flu. On the way to security, it went smoothly for everybody but Staffan had to spend a bit more time. He had book of Gorkha Soldiers with pictures and the security person took time to see book in detail because of Chinese political issue. We met our Tibet guide Tashi Rinzin at the airport and started trip to Lhasa.

Group Picture at Buddha statue

Warm welcome from the Lasha

We stopped on the way to see big Shakya Muni Buddha statue. The statue is carving on big Stone Mountain. We also had glimpse of Potala Palace where we will go for tomorrow morning.

	Eva-and-Anna
We were warmly welcomed by the hotel with their local welcome songs and khada. Khada is a kind of white scarf that one can offer for greetings and good luck. After checked in hotel, we went to the Chinese Restaurant through the local market. We had different kind of Chinese food and it was very delicious.

Narrow street at Lhasa	Dinner Time
Now we are feeling the high altitude symptoms at the elevation of 3600m like head ached, numbness, difficult to breath. This is normal to affect little bit as we flew from the elevation of 1300m. to 3600m directly. Hope we will get better tomorrow. We all are going to bed early this night.

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