Tuesday June 2, 2009 - Final day in Lhasa

Today was a free day in Lhasa and Ray and I spent it wandering around town and catching up on the blog and emails and generally being more relaxed. Lhasa was a very comfortable town to be in, but it was also lifeless and suppressed. You know when you become comfortable in a place its time to move on!! The old Tibetan quarter is small and the main part of the city is new and Chinese. We wandered around the Kora for the Sokhung Temple with the pilgrims, and through the local and tourist markets at the back of the temple. We walked through the new part of town and went into a large department store to browse. We also mailed a DVD containing some of our pictures to Alanna as back-up. this was an interesting experience. The customs people had to look through the pictures on the DVD before we could post it. We are told it will take 5 to 10 days to arrive. It was a lovely warm day and we enjoyed ourselves.