Home » Tibet Nepal China » Intrepid Season 2005 - China, Tibet, & Nepal (part III)

March - October 2005

Intrepid Season 2005 - China, Tibet, & Nepal (part III)

Brett Voegele
2005-11-19 14:41:04

Displayed times (last time: )

prepare people for that trip to Chengdu, as it's taken our groups anywhere from about 11 to 23 hours to make that journey this year. I've done it in 17, and the last two trips have taken me 15. Needless to say people are pretty worn out by the time we reach Chengdu, but they only had time to scarf down some pizza, shower, and sleep, before our 5:30 departure the next morning for the airport. Oh - I guess they did also have time to read the 'Notice for Hotel Guests', which stated:

1.Every guest have to take valid identification for check in.Increase person or change person,;please transact procedure at the Reception Desk.Don'tleave any person or transfer to others privately. Relative or friend have to transat procedure for visit or receive.Come in the room deed the register'sagreeing.

2.Please take good core of the rpp,faco;otoes.of any mangled,please pay for as the rack rate. Don'tinstall electrical wire and telephone, set goods on fire, paste at will.

3.According to the police, don't prostitute oneseif, wench, gambling, hit the pipe and spread obscene goods.

4.For security reasons of the hotel guests, there is on accepting of things like combustibles, exquisite, exquisite poison and radiated items.The gun and ammunition will give the local police to keep it.

5.For quiet reasons of the hotel guests,don't hit the bottle, fight, make trouble, full mouthed,for badly violator, hotel will cancel his lodging qualification and call police.

6.Of the staying,if you have any dissatisfaction,please contac our Assistant Manager.

A short 2-hour flight and we found ourselves at Gongkar Airport in the Tibet Autonomous Region. From there I was finally able to take the 'new' road to Lhasa, which cut down the driving time considerably. During our 5 days in Lhasa we visited the Jokhang, Potala Palace, Sera Monastery, Braille ...