Thinking of Tibet..

Potala, the central monastery in Lhasa

Lhasa

Prayer flags and prayer cards

Monks painting a monastery

Prayer wheels

Tibetan woman

So my brother's travel continue and he is for the moment in Tibet. I think it was about 2 years ago me and Chris visited that very special and original place on earth. I want to call it a country but as it is a part of China now and probably always will be i have to call it a Chinese province. Chris ones toled me that every country you visit you'll feel a special connection to and everytime you here it on the news etc you'll listen extra carefully. Tibet will always bring up emotions for me and i feel very strong for the people living there.
Not only did me and Chris sneak in illegally from the west, a place tourists rarely get to, but we did it on a bus going from 1200m above sealevel to 5400m. For those of you who've never herd of altitude sickness, i'll tell you this is risking your life big time. Well we didn't know by the time and if we did we would probably never have done it.
Well Tibet was amazing! I've never seen such blue sky or clear lakes. Tibetans are one of the friendliest people i've ever met. I think it's impossible to travel in this country without getting very emotional. Everywere you go you'll see ruins of monasteries destoyed by the Chinese government. You can't help but notice that the Tibetan culture slowly is dying and the Chinese is taking over. You'll hear horrible stories allong the way about Tibetan munks getting beaten up by Chinese police, Tibetans getting shot when they trying to escape to India...
It's so sad because they have such a beautiful religion and even though you're just a tourist walking around the "kora" or spinning the prayer wheels they smile to you; your a friend even though you don't believe in the same things.

I really hope i will go there someday again. I'm just scared there wont be any Tibet left at that time..

(I haven't got any photos from the west on this computer so the ones above are only from Lhasa and around.)