Tibet

Tibet http://www.flyingmonk.com/tibet.html We visited Tibet in 2002, the Year of the Horse, a very important religious year for pilgrimages and beside Lhasa with its astounding Potala Palace, its amazing surrounding monasteries and religious sites, we were able to travel much further. We visited Ganden Monastery, the seat of Ganden Tripa, the head of the Gelupka order, in the province of U. We visited the province of Tsang, with the remarkable monastery of Sakia, that had such a great role in the history of Tibet, Tashilhumpo in Shigatse, the seat of Panchen Lama whose personality is mixed presently in political controversy, the Gyantse's Kumbum and Pelkor Chonde Monastery and Yamdrok tso, one of the four major religious lakes of Tibet. From there we pursued further to Ngari, Western Tibet, and we did the 3 day kora around Mt. Kailash, the most important holy mountain of 4 religions, an amazing and powerful spiritual experience, joining hundreds of pilgrims and yaks in climbing Droma La at 5630 meters. After the kora around the mountain, we relaxed around the beautiful Manasarovar lake famous also for its own kora, a religious place mentioned 1700 years ago in the Sanskrit Puranas writings. From Ngari, we traveled over grassland to the Nepalese border and back to Tingri where the vista of the Himalayas is majestic. Later we drove to Rongphu Monastery at the base of the Mt. Everest and hiked from the Base Camp up towards the peak, and returned through Shegar to Shigatse, Gyantse and back to Lhasa. Come with us and enjoy all this and many others in two fascinating travel videos: one about Ngari, Kailash, Manasarovar and the area around Mt. Everest.and one about Lhasa and the U and Tsang monasteries.