The Ever Changing Lhasa, Tibet
I have traveled China and Tibet for over 25 years watching the changes and the growth. It has been like watching the U.S. from 1900 to 2014 in the span of just those 25 years. It is what keeps me going back time and time again to see and watch the changes going on in China. As a tour operator I work all over China so I see all those changes first hand from year to year. My first visit to Lhasa was in 1994 when the population was only 250,000 people. Few hotels on the par of the west but there was an old Holiday Inn at the time which is now under another name. The others were two and three star hotels and a variety of hostels. Mostly Chinese and Tibetan food with something similar to western food. Buildings were only two stories tall and many dirt or gravel streets and roads. Chinese lived on one side of the town and Tibetans on the other side. That was 1994 but today when I have been there I can see the difference in ...