Happy Valley Race Track: Beer, Gambling, and Horses

I was born in Hong Kong and have been back to visit pretty much every year of my life. When you have this sort of pattern with a city, you tend to want to visit the areas you are familiar with and won't see for a year. My brother and I stuck to Causeway Bay, TST, Mong Kok, and Sham Shui Po. These...

A Snapshot of Lhasa

  Monks in a department store. Clearly making some prayer rounds.  The majority of articles on Tibet are filled with burgundy-robed monks silently twirling handheld prayer wheels. In a red columned assembly hall, they sit cross-legged on worn red pillows as shafts of light stream down...

Hong Kong and Lhasa

I am currently on my way back to Hong Kong after three months in Lhasa. For the occasion, I have compiled a list of things that I am looking forward to in Hong Kong and things that I will miss about Lhasa.  Everything that I am looking forward to applies only to my individual situation. I...

St. Regis Lhasa Resort: Inside the Wall

*Sorry this is so long! I wanted to be as descriptive as possible. I've created headers so you can just skip around if you can't be bothered to read it all. Also, apologies about the image quality. I had to compress them so that loading them onto blogger wouldn't take a year.*  ...