25Jun09 Potala Palace in Lhasa/Tibet

I came to Lhasa!!!!!!!!!! The pictures are "Potala Palace" which was residence of Dalai Lama before. It was beautiful building. The color is nice!! not only white color. There are yellow and orange(red) color, as well. And inside also beautiful!! But I couldn't take picture of inside. There are relief and painting on the wall. The work was very delicate.

English : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potala_Palace
Japanese : http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9D%E3%82%BF%E3%83%A9%E5%AE%AE

Approach of Potala Palace.

There were a large following.

And in this afternoon, we went to "Jokhang Temple". It was near our hotel. just 10min on foot. and there were a lot of souvenir shops around there.

And there are decoration(?) on four corners of private house. I think it is kind of charm.

Our hotel was soooooooo nice hotel!!! It was typical Tibetan hotel. Design, decoration, furniture, Service, everyting was perfect!!!!

Trichang Labrang Hotel

And there was a birthday party of Alex who is a french girl:):):) Her birthday was already passed, but at the time (2nd day), we couldn't celebrate with alcohole:) That's why, we desided we will celebrate her in Lhasa. It became nice party!!!

Happy Birthday, Alex!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!