Four Tourist Destinations Never Miss in Lhasa by Tracy

May16

Lhasa, also known as the Sunlight City, is an ancient city with long history of 1,300 years. As a mysterious city for most people, Lhasa always attracts amounts of travelers to explore it and enjoy the closest place to heaven.

No. 1 Potala Palace - Please follows the tour guide
Potala PalaceSymbol Attraction in Tibet

It is completely right that you never come to Tibet if you miss the Potala Palace. Potala Palace stands at the height of 3,700 meters above the sea level, and covers an area of 360,000 square meters including the total building area of 130,000 square meters. With 13 floors in the height of 117 meters, Potala Palace is the largest fort type building in the world's highest place, and is also the important landmark in Lhasa, so it is reputed as the "World Roof Pearl".

Potala Palace was built depend upon mountain, with overlapping groups of buildings, towering palaces and granite walls. Really resplendent and magnificent! The only one advice I offer you just following the tour guide to visit the Potala Palace.

No. 2 Jokhang Temple - No photographing
Jokhang TempleSupreme Tibetan Buddhism Temple

Jokhang Temple is located at the center of old town of Lhasa, has a long history of 1,350 years. It is the existing most glorious building in period of Tubo, is also the earliest civil architecture in Tibet, and it creates the special layout for temple. Jokhang Temple has supreme status in Tibetan Buddhism.

About one hour, the most impressive in temple for me is the life-size figure of Buddha Sakyamuni which was built when Sakyamuni was alive. Tibetan think it is valuable, not only as its historical value and value of cultural relic, but it is thought has no difference with the Sakyamuni in 2,500 years ago. It was the most exquisite and valuable as one of the existing three figures of Sakyamuni in the world.

Owing to the cultural protection, it is no photographing in temple, so you just record these shocked values by your eyes.

No. 3 Barkhor Street - sells various kinds of goods
Barkhor StreetCommercial Street in Lhasa

Barkhor Street close to Jokhang Temple is the third must-see in Lhasa. The whole street is roundness, seems like a huge clock, and the glorious Jokhang Temple is the clock-axle.

Barkhor Street is about 1 kilometer long, with totally 2,000 families about 6,000 persons. The both sides of street are crowded with stores and stalls, extraordinarily lively! The common goods include card pads, Dsi, Tibetan quilts, silver ornaments, Tibetan shoes, gemstone rings, Tibetan Knives, prayer wheels, etc. Besides some local Tibetan opening store here, there are some merchants from Nepal.

The tour guide explained, the border trade in Tibet is very active in recent years, and more and more foreign goods appear in Barkhor Street.
 
No. 4 Makye-ame - Leave mood in note
Bar in Barkhor StreetFamous Bar located in Barkhor Street

Makye-ame is a name of a bar which sits at the street corner of Barkhor Street, and it was a bar full of legendary colors.
Nowadays, the reason why Makye-ame is well known to many people is stranger. Don't know since when, travelers come from all over the world to Tibet to find the Makye-ame Bar, and record the feelings when they visit Tibet in the note prepared by the bar.

The Makye-ame is not very big, but decorated full of Tibetan amorous feelings, and what more attractive are the piles of notes on every desk. Turning over anyone, it is easily find various words, including the Chinese characters, Tibetan, Nepali, English, Japanese, etc. I believe there is a different story back of every kind of word.

It is not the complete Lhasa, but it is the must-see in Lhasa.

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