People in Lhasa, Tibet

People in Tibet are great – unfortunately for a large part also really poor.
These pictures are taken on and near the local market.

Part of the people are not from Lhasa, but are Tibetan visitors from far away villages.  

                                     

We are still astonished about the above practise...

Most people really like to have their picture taken.

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.

The train to Tibet

Here are some pictures we took during our 48 hour train ride from Chengdu, China to Lhasa, Tibet.


The train was really comfortable. The views were great!!

Arrival in Lhasa

Watching movies in the train

Sleeping in the train

Food stands at the train stop

Garbage in Asia !!!

Cleaning at home and cleaning outside on private property is not an issue in Tibet, Nepal and India. We have seen how nice and clean it is in the homes we visited.

People love to have it clean at their OWN house.

Cleaning the streets has to be done by the government. At least that was the overall reaction when we asked.
We did 2 clean-up actions, one with the locals and one with the kids of the CWH.
The video of the first action can be found here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLSXDV86Qes
People don’t seem to understand why throwing their garbage on the streets is so bad.
The smell, the views, the illnesses...

It is not just a little bit dirty in these countries, it is TERRIBLE!!

Tibet's country side... assure you keep your eyes at least 1 meter over the ground....
 

Matthew and Robin showed the locals what to do with trash.

Tibet needs tourists... wondering how happy the average tourist is with these views... See above...

The kids at the Kathmandu, Nepal  CWH have teamed up and clean the streets!

Matthew and Robin are experts in cleaning the streets. Here in Kathmandu.

Hopefully nobody drinks this cow's milk....

Below some pictures taken in Fort Kochi, India. Tourism town...
Be happy if you don't get sick in this town... we ended up on anti-biotics...

Burning garbage. An 'easy way' to get rid of it.

There are plenty birds, cockroaches, rats, goats, cows, dogs, cats and other other animals feeding from the above 'food'....

Kids don't even look at it. Garbage 'belongs' on the streets.

Moving on to Bangalore, India.... more pictures follow, just this one cow, resting in the garbage for now...



The garbage in these countries is WAY WORSE than we ever imagined....

Thought we share our experiences with you....