Happy Thanksgiving from Tibet! We arrived in Lhasa yesterday, and spent the day getting used to the altitude (it's about 12,000 feet here and we were struggling a little). We have eaten yak dumplings and checked out the Dalai Lama's (former) winter palace (see photo), the center of Tibetan Buddhism for about 500 years. The Dalai Lama now resides in Daramsala, India, as he fled Tibet in 1959. The palace contains photos and depictions of the Dalai Lamas prior to the present one, but none of the present one, as it is apparently illegal to even possess his photo.
It's cold. Our hotel restaurant is on the roof (convenient in summer, ill conceived this time of year) and we wore hats and gloves to breakfast, where the marmalade and butter were frozen.
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