Ten Years of Promise-Tibet (2)

On the first day in Lhasa, I made a cup of Rhodiola rosea when I arrived at the hotel, preparing myself for the possible high tide. But when I waited until 2 o'clock in the evening, I didn't seem to have any intention of getting high. Finally fell asleep peacefully.

Every time I travel to a place, I usually don’t feel very good in the first two days. I also feel that everything is not that interesting yet, so I have to work hard to have some fun.

The next day, I got up not too early, had breakfast, and took a taxi to the Potala Palace. I found that the white wall across the Potala Palace lawn when I arrived in 10 years had disappeared and turned into a railing that could be seen inside. . I saw many Tibetans walking inside, so I asked the driver. Are only Tibetans allowed to go here? The driver said, no, you can go through security check with your ID card. Later I realized that the reason why I saw Tibetans all the time was because there were too few tourists. I asked the driver again if Yaowang Mountain was open, and he told me not yet. Then he asked me, "Do you want to take the 50-yuan cover shot?" I said, "Yes." "There's no need to go to Yaowang Mountain. It doesn't matter. You can just stand down and take the shot. It's still 50 yuan." 😂, after saying that, he also expressed his emotion that there is nothing to photograph, haha. After getting off the bus, I followed the crowd and queued up to enter the area around the Potala Palace. The Potala Palace was not open yet, but you could queue up for security check with your ID card and have your temperature taken by infrared to go in and walk around the Potala Palace. The queue was quite fast. The Tibetan woman in front of me kept chanting and never missed any opportunity to pray and recite sutras. The Potala Palace is a very sacred place to them, and even the epidemic will not change this.

In fact, I heard that the area around the Potala Palace began to slowly open up after late May, so many Tibetans brought their children to visit the Potala Palace to pray. But actually not everyone goes all the way. Many people just touch it. However, sometimes there will be Tibetans who want to pray while you are taking pictures, and they will say sorry to you and then spin the prayer wheel by themselves. This is quite surprising to me, and it is different from my previous experience.

There are not as many people kowtowing like this as before, but there is still a very pious feeling.

I don’t think I’ve ever photographed the Potala Palace from such an angle before.

The Potala Palace originally said it would open at 5.20, but when I arrived on May 26, it still wasn't open. I don’t know if I regretted it again this time and left without entering the Potala Palace.

If the weather is suitable, you can see snow-capped mountains anywhere in Lhasa. This grassland is a park behind the Potala Palace. I did not go in that day.

The weather in the Potala Palace was not very good that day, but when I walked around to the lawn in front of the Potala Palace, a corner of blue sky appeared.

Everyday tourists take pictures, and the man who takes pictures for me insists that I add him on WeChat, but I tell him that I don’t have WeChat. . .

After sitting on the ground in Potala Palace Square for a while, I walked to the front of Lhasa Department Store and felt very hungry. I seemed to have little energy and planned to go back to the hotel. When I found a KFC, I realized that there was a KFC in Lhasa. Ten years ago, there was only Dicos. KFC in Lhasa is much more expensive than in the mainland. I had lunch here and felt full of strength again, so I continued on to the Jokhang Temple. The golden yak in front of Jokhang Temple Road, I touched its horns and ears, hehe.

Of course, the Jokhang Temple is not open, and the entire area is surrounded for fire protection upgrades (it seemed to have been a fire before), so it is estimated that it will not be open in the next two months.

The child who is full of curiosity about the world has been looking at me curiously. There are not many tourists on Balang Street in front of the Jokhang Temple. Many tourists are wearing Tibetan clothes and taking artistic photos of Tibetan clothes with people in the photography studio, so there are no obvious tourists. Those tourists who used to sit on the wall are gone, and it seems to be unpopular now.

The Qing government's yamen in Tibet offers free admission. You just need to register your ID card and body temperature. Similar to a museum. I quite like the various Tibetan-style windows inside. It's bright and eye-catching, and the cloth on the windows blows slightly when the wind blows.

The children on Balang Street, I hope they have a happy childhood.

After returning to the hotel, I rested for a while and found that a beam of evening sunlight came through, which was just right. This ray of sunshine started the good weather for the next week, and the weather got better day by day. :)