One more photo from the Potala Palace

One more photo from the Potala Palace

Before I close my session with photos from Tibet, I post another picture of the great Potala Palace in Lhasa. It was capture in 2004 during my first visit in Tibet. The influence of the Chinese is obviously.
The Tibetan Buddhist believers mostly are nomads, living in tents and holding a livestock of yaks, goats or sheep. A citizen who came to Lhasa the first time would be astonished very much to view to such a mighty building.
The building measures 400 metres east-west and 350 metres north-south, with sloping stone walls averaging 3 m thick, and 5 m thick at the base, and with copper poured into the foundations to help proof it against earthquakes. Thirteen stories of buildings – containing over 1,000 rooms, 10,000 shrines and about 200,000 statues – soar 117 m on top of Marpo Ri, the "Red Hill", rising more than 300 m in total above the valley floor.

My picture is taken in May 2004 with a NIKON CoolPix 5000