Lhasa, China
8 June - Tibet - Lhasa
Another local day with a morning visit to the Drepung Monastery a little way out of town. It is huge & used to house over a 1000 monks in the past. Today's it has less than 200. The point of interest at this one is the fact that it has nuns as well. ( I take the guides word for it because they look like men to me. ) A couple of these nuns live in caves hewn into the hillside surrounded by their worldly possessions.... Such that they a...