For many centuries tibet remained for westerners a mysterious and forbidden land cut off from the rest of the world by the mighty Himalayas in the south and the kunlun Mountains to the norht.Only a handful of brave and resourceful travellers ever managed to breach the country's snowy mountain fastness and reach its fabled capital Lhasa.
Those that did returned with stories of an exotic and intriguing land of monastic cities and mountain passes,where momads grazed huge herds of yaks,hermit monds spent years in meditation adn pilgrims prostrated themselves over vast distances to achieve their religious goals.Inrecent years there have been many changes to the Tibetan world but its staggeringly rich,and easily misunderstood,culture remains resilient and continues to fire the imagination of the we stern mind.
Moreover Tibet is no longer the inaccessible land that it once was,and although by on means always comfortable,travel to the Roof of the world,with all its rewards,is well within the grasp of today's adventurous traveller. |
