- They have great lemon ginger tea that helps the tummy recover from altitude sickness
- Crisps and packets of sweets are bursting with air and are hard to open!
- Watch your toiletries after landing at the high altitude.. they may explode!
- Don’t be surprised to see hotel staff lined up at various stages in the day reciting what seemed to be some sort of pledge of allegiance or to see supermarket staff at opening time lined up outside for the national anthem
- Social media sites do not work well in China – whatsapp and Facebook took 3 days to update and I was never able to search on google although yahoo worked.. strange!
- All toilets are squaters (except in the hotels)
- Security seemed oddly strict and yet lax at the same time! Leaving Lhasa I was allowed bring my bottle of water but got a full-on pat down (I mean every bit of me was felt) going through the security check!!
- You’ll see a fair bit of this:
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