I am sure some of you wanted to know what happened in Lhasa. Well, as a matter of fact, when I’ve reached that place, Daniel Chew (me of course) was okay on the day he arrived on the train station in Lhasa, Tibet. With all my giant bag and a camera bag, you would have thought that Daniel would suffer from backaches and stuffs.

I look like a miniature guy with a big big big big bag and I can still pose. Now who say I wasn’t strong enough to carry a bag like this. So being our first night finally after the long stay in the train which nearly lasted 3 whole days, we’re waiting for our tour to come take us. Mind you, in Tibet, we need to get special permit to enter and the only way to enter is to go thru tour agencies (What a rip off…..)

Of course, I haven’t properly introduced my friends that went along on this trip. Well, other than their names here they are.

Somehow I can’t resist but naming ourselves as THE TIBETAN TRIO. Familiar? Heard of the SOUTHERN TRIO?

Haha… the relieve we all had when we arrived in the so called dark alley and to be greeted with a place with superbly hotel like room. Nice bed they have there. There’s also WIFI connection here in this hotel. Seeing that we’ve reached this place about 10pm, we all grew tired and of course next day has arrived.

The following day deserved more pictures and to come to Tibet, one has to at least visit the Potala Palace. Once known to be the place where the Tibetan Kings reside, then the Dalai Lama and the administration. Now it serves more like a tourist spot.

Photo shot with original colors. Might have overdid the color settings on my camera though. The place is huge, lucky I got my Sigma 10-20mm lens along with me. Credit to both Kenny and Ek Wei for coming along and snapping photos too (some of my photos XD) .

But what the heck? Me posing like that? The picture above is so not me. I was trying to think, why not try a decent pose for the camera, but then I wondered. Isn’t that what most people do when they take photos? Where are the weirdness in this kind of shots?

GUESSED I JUST HAVE TO….

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Daniel is back again. Well, been neglecting too much until I thought what the heck, let’s get on with the Tibet updates. After like nearly a month’s absence from work, lotsa things to do which I find that I can’t really modify and look through my photos. Yup, some of the photos which are in my friend’s laptop is already with me. So then let’s proceed with my classifying journey to the Land of Tibet.

My first knowledge of Tibet came all the way back to when I was still in college. How did I know about that place. All because of one storybook.

Who would have thought the places that Tintin mentioned would now be the place that I would be traveling. Though that was years ago, and now I must say Tibet nowadays is too commercialized.

Finally now though, I can call it Daniel in Tibet.

My journey as most know started on 29th August 2009 and it was on the plane to GuangZhao. Yes AirAsia doesn’t have a direct flight to Lhasa, Tibet or for my case, the flight to Chengdu from Kuala Lumpur wasn’t available at that time. (I was like, why why did AirAsia announced the new flight to Chengdu but only starting in October 2009)

Instead of writing places to visit here and there, here will be a rough explanation of my Journey to the West.

After arriving in GuangZhao, it was a few days for us to see how it’s like here. How careful and clean their park is.

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