我到天边走一回(1)Going Tibet
我到天边走一回(2)On the way to Tibet
天边走一回(3)步步沉重的Potala Palace
文接自：天边走一回(4)Barkhor Street@Lhasa
18/9/2012 The 2nd night in Lhasa some of us were still having a sleepless night due to the high altitude, yet we were eager to meet what was in line for us. All four of my family members (including me) were having a headache, but woke very early hanging our heads at the breakfast table. My appetite had decreased but I had to force myself to eat a little, thinking that I would need energy for the long mountain journey that was to come.
8:00am 扎基寺（财神庙）
【Zaki temple】was a small temple located in the northern suburbs of Lhasa. According to the local Tibetans, Zaki Temple enshrines the God of wealth and it was very efficacious. It was said that this was a female God and she is very fond of drinking wine, therefore visitors who enters would buy a bottle of liquor and a Khata to consecrate her. 
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If you are self-travelling to Tibet, the Zaki Temple admission is free, which is rare and worth a visit.
Every Wednesday, the temple would always be crowded, congested with worshipers who flourish the temple with wormwood incense outside and suffused with strong aroma of liquor inside.
当地人都手持一捆艾草干，哈达和白酒前来敬仰扎基女神。一位大叔习以为常的将自己的帽子寄放在守护门口的麒麟头上……
The liquor was sold just right at the entrance before stepping into the temple, which was only RMB5 – 7. To worship, we stayed inline with the other worshipers, took turns to enter a small transparent chamber where The God was seated. A person in charge took our offered liquors and poured them into a big barrel in front of the chamber. Then we offered our Khata on the altar after making a wish. A pile of Khata was free to grab in front of the door as well.
Before we set off to our next destination, we found the big prayer wheels at the other exit of the temple, one at each side of the doorway. Remember to spin round in odd numbers instead of even… 转得超快，人会被拉着走噢~！
9:30am 罗布林卡【Norbulingka】literally "The Jewelled Park" 宝贝公园。
It served as the traditional summer residence of the successive Dalai Lamas from the 1780s up until the 14th Dalai Lama's exile in 1959.
For your self-travel information, Norbulingka admission fee: Peak season RMB80, other season RMB60; Opening Hours: 09:00 to 12:00 in the morning, 15: 00 to 16:00 in the afternoon.
狗狗又无处不在……
Tibetans really love dogs……
这是我弟最后一跳了…因为过后海拔太高**晕**了… （不是开玩笑，他真的晕到医院去…故事在后面……）
This was the palace where Dalai Lamas watched the folk operas held opposite to the park during the Shoton festival from the first floor through that window.
The gardens are a favourite picnic spot and provides a beautiful venue for theatre, dancing and festivals, particularly the Shodun or 'Yoghurt Festival', at the beginning of August, with families camping in the grounds for days surrounded by colourful makeshift windbreaks of rugs and scarves and enjoying the height of summer weather.
屋檐下的雕刻精致……
Norbulingka Garden was really big, it took us awhile to reach the summer place of residence of the successive Dalai Lamas…
Guard dog on the wall~
Even the dog house was up there….
罗布林卡园内有植物100余种，不仅有拉萨地区常见花木，而且有取自喜马拉雅山南北麓的奇花异草，还有从内地移植或从国外引进的名贵花卉，堪称高原植物园。
这也是我在西藏的最后一跳~
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roup photo time~ in front of the beautiful Dalai Lamas’ place of residence.
10:45am We proceeded to the next destination, 西藏自治区藏药厂 The Tibetan Traditional Medicine Pharmaceutical Factory. 玉妥·云登贡布,the statue of the main Tibetan medicine founder was seated at the front of the main entrance. This was a new factory which they just moved in from the old town area, and we seemed to be the first Malaysian visitors.
据史书记载，玉妥·云登贡布享年125岁……80岁还能得子……
As we stepped into the entrance, everyone magically raised up their chins… we were attracted to the beauty of the domed ceiling above us.
The factory’s guide invited one of us to stand right in the middle of it, make a loud wish of longevity and health for everyone… clear echo could be heard bouncing around the space.
Take a closer look, right in the middle, the highest point of the dome, was actually a picture of the Medicine Buddha…
This was a precious and huge Thangka… We saw many of these in a smaller form at the Potala Palace and at the temples that we had visited, and because of the holy ritual ceremony each of these Thangka had gone through, photography was prohibited. However it was too late for the factory’s guide to stop us from taking the picture of this. It took 8 men to carry this up to the display wall, as this Thangka was hand woven with many precious stones and minerals which can cost a million… dropping our jaws… as we walked through the door under this priceless Thangka…
The other huge painting of another founder who brought scriptures of medical texts from India. →
There were introduction of medicine made from natural mineral in Tibet… The Cordyceps and Saffron were the most popular ones. However there were so many counterfeit goods in the market. With my intuition and judgment of their earnest dedication to the medicine, I felt this is the right place to buy these expensive herbs. There were lists of prescriptions of medications for different symptoms, so we could buy capsules of pre-mixed herbs according to our own health conditions.
12noon Road to 日喀则 Rikaze (Shigatse)…… The beauty of the autumn scene surrounded us all the way out of town.
Before heading deeper into the mountain, the tour guide arranged lunch for us at the most hygienic restaurant that she could think of on this road.
Very exaggerated was a notice, where there was a sign warning diners not to rinse their tableware, or else they would not accommodate us; because they had already sterilized every thing. The tour guide told us there was once a Hong Kong tourist who rinsed the bowl with tea and the restaurant’s owner immediately drove the whole group out of his shop.
After meal some of them went to the toilet, the tour guide warned them that it was is the best toilet after heading to the mountain… RMB1 to use the locally dug “hole” kind of toilet… everyone came back with a crumpled face… haha…..
Even flies followed them up into our bus… I rather don’t drink any fluid than to go any toilet at all…
Soaring with the clouds in the deep blue sky… we set off our journey into the mountain of heavenly land, Shigatse…
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