Lhasa, the capital of Tibet

The capital city Lhasa is only small, but there is much to see.
The city and the people are so different from any other place we have visited!

Here are some impressions:

Eating food on the street is no problem.

Corn and some deep fried dough 'things' for breakfast...

Sweet potatoes, baked over the fire, really nice actually.

A variety of YAK cheeses

Charming...

The Dalai Lama is important. The amount of followers is going down though

Here at one of the schools we visited

Precision work, a mosaic made completely out of SAND...

                                     
  Yak butter is used to burn candles

Here the Yak butter for sale for offering pupose

Very many pilgrims were visiting the city when we were in Lhasa. Mainly people from the country side. Some of them were looking at us as if we were aliens.

The Dalai Lama's summer palace

The Dalai Lama's winter palace

Even that these buildings are not used anymore by the Dalai Lama, they are really popular tourist and pilgrim sites now.