Images from Lhasa

Looking out over the city of Lhasa from the Potala Palace.

The view from our hotel window: a Chinese government building.

Another angle from our hotel window: a small shop

The area in front of the Potala Palace, once an area of small, winding streets, is now a large square.

A common method of heating tea in a place with so much sunlight year-round is to place a pot in a solar heater such as this one.

These busses head out for Shigatze soon after dawn, leaving whenever they fill up with passengers. Competition for passengers is fierce, with drivers and touts forcibly pulling customers onto their busses.

Anne Crosby-Lundin with a monk we met in Lhasa, Nga Wang Dwo Je (spelled out phonetically). He offered us the yak butter tea in the foreground.

William Crosby-Lundin with Nga Wang.

The former site of the Tibetan medical college (destroyed during the Chinese invasion), this hill is now covered with radio antennae.

Another shot of the hill.