Buying Tickets to the Potala Palace

I left for the Potala Palace ticketing booth at 6:30am along with Gertrud, and we ended up waiting in line for five hours. If we had come much later we would have been out of luck because there are only 200 or so tickets available each day.

There was very little to occupy our time while waiting, so we got lost in conversation. Gertrud must be in her mid-60s, and although she would never come out and directly say such a thing, she has been to over 50 countries from around the world - including seemingly impossible places in Africa and South America. There are too many interesting stories to recount on this blog, but some day I will visit her family in Los Angeles and allow her to tell them herself.

When we finally received our tickets we were surprised to see it was for the following day at a specified time. This gave me the rest of the afternoon to sign up for classes in Hong Kong, explore more of Lhasa’s markets, and get some much needed rest.

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