Road from Kathmandu to Lhasa

My eight-hour bus ride was into its 14th hour. We were stalled in traffic outside of Kathmandu on the eve of a mass public proteset to the unstable Govt. so that would shut down Nepal’s capital for an entire week.I was racing back to town—so I could spend another five days on a bus. Actually, […]

Behind the Turmoil in Tibet

You may know the basic story – that Mao Zedong’s China invaded Tibet in 1950 and annexed it as part of China, and that the young Dalai Lama fled Tibet in 1959 and has lived in exile since. After all this time, why do the Tibetans continue to resist Chinese rule?China claimed ownership of Tibet […]