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Pilgrimage in Lhasa

Lhasa is a city full of contrasts and colours, a place where you meet tourists waiting for the next trek and looking for last moments of comfort, and local farmers selling salt, yak butter and dried meat.

In Lhasa you see Westerners trying to get used to the altitude and to the local tea, and praying pilgrims who follow the koras, ritual circuits around holy places.

Lhasa is a city with many occasions to meet people, discover places, visit historical sites before leaving for new discoveries, other monasteries.

Lhasa, capital and heart and soul of Tibet, is the city sheltering the Potala, deserted palace of the Dalai Lamas, a huge unit of white and red buildings dominating the city, a place which belongs to the myth and which we were looking forward to seeing, a historical site symbolizing all the contradictions Tibet is still undergoing.

In search of buddhism

We have heard that after a journey into Tibet you are never the same again... for sure, one can only be impressed by the religious enthusiasm of Tibetan people.

Everywhere, in the cities and in the countryside, we see signs of people's faith. Buildings, monasteries, temples, stupas, and also discrete markers symbolizing a thought, a belief, a prayer : the cairns, these little mounds of stones artistically laid out, or the prayer flags, red, yellow, blue, green and white, moving with the wind.

Next to each monument, we admire these pilgrims walking, swinging prayer wheels, or prostrating in front of sacred symbols.