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Norbulingka – Summer Palace of Dalai Lamas

Shortly after The Potala Palace, our tour group made way to Norbulingka Park, garden to the Summer Palace of the Dalai Lamas where they solved the political problems and held festive celebrations. Today, it has been turned into a park open to the public. Norbulingka (Treasure Park in Tibetan) lies about one km southwest of the Potala Palace. With a gigantic land area of […]

Acclimatization on the Tibetan Plateau

There are a couple of ways of visiting Tibet. You can either take a direct domestic flight from Cheng Du and experience an orgasmic 3000+ metres altitude and atmospheric pressure difference like what my tour group did or board the Qinghai-Tibet railway which allow you to slowly adapt to the increasing altitude (continuous but moderate […]

Bangkok – Getting Wet & Wild for Songkran

While the Red Shirts protesters are out at the Victory Monument, Vibhavadi Road and other government office areas in Bangkok having head on confrontation with Thai Military / Police Force, the rest of the merry people in Bangkok are taking over the streets of silom with water pistols, buckets and trashcans filled with ice water! It’s Wet Wet Wild time […]

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