[palo verde]

from my reading it sounds awful
Tibet is under control of china
so they were forced to stay at the chinese hotel enroute
he said it was so frigid if water dripped it formed stalactites
the bed was cot like in prison cell
the room looked like prison cell
only one hairy blanket
and it was all filthy
food was inedible
and they were charged $60/night

[andysandmikesmom]

Andy spent a month in Tibet, and says what the Chinese have done to the people and to the country is terrible....

But the Tibetans themselves are the best, most friendly, most loving, most generous people he has ever met, anywhere...he just loved them...

You cannot even get in Tibet on your own...you must always join a tour, and pass through several checkpoints, all manned by Chinese guards, who are really brusque, mean, evil, and just try to hassle tourists in general...Andy absolutely hated the Chinese, but loved the Tibetans...

Andy fears that in the coming years, Tibetan culture, will keep disappearing...every single Tibetan town of any size, has a Chinese section, built by the Chinese...eventually he fears that China will begin moving more and more Chinese out of China proper, and set up populations in Tibet, in an effort to wipe out traditional Tibetan culture, and even intermarry, in an attempt to genetically wipe out the Tibetans...

That is why he was glad to see Tibet when he did, because altho the Tibetans resist as best as they can, the time may come, when traditional Tibetan culture will be rare...