Yak hotel in Lhassa

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Travel story: Yak hotel in Lhassa

Once again, an early wake up: 0400. I was too excited to care: I am going to Lhasa, the forbidden city, protected by the most inhospitable terrain and some of the highest mountains in the world, the magical city by definition. Explorers have always been tempted by it, reaching it constituted a major achievement. Very few explorers have made it, many have tried and perished on the way, 12 different expeditions tried in the late 1800 and early 1900 to reach Lhasa, none made it, few survived to... More