People still envision Tibet as a place of deep river valleys, green mountains covered in snow, and rural farms. This is still the case in most areas (except for the trees - just green meadows in summer). We live in a high desert, above the treeline, but in a growing city overlooked by dry mountains that turn from grey to green to purple as the sun shadows them. A huge lightning storm the other night left the tops covered in white, but today that is all but burned off. This summer, though the monsoon season had raised the water level significantly
Here are a few photos from the plane to illustrate. Lhasa's airport is actually in the next valley, and is now connected by a 10 minute tunnel under a mountain then a raised road following the the train. You can see haystacks as the fields are being harvested in late August. My next blog will show scenes of local harvesting.
Let me know what you'd like to see and I can try to shoot/upload those.
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