Hats off to the man who committed such a trip with absolutely no training! I understand all the difficulties of India and Tibet, as several of my friends have been there. I did not dare to go with them, so I prefer a more comfortable and architectural and historical tourism.
Here are some photos from Tibet, my friend:
http://www.izotoff.ru/asia.html
So, the purpose of my letter - to warn people who may be involved in the beauty of Tibet, the most difficult living conditions, aggravated by high altitude. Tibet at an altitude of 4000-5000 m. necessarily require adaptation. Even this, my friend Mr. Izotoff, a good athlete and mountain climber, could not resist the charms of India-Tibet. He planned to travel for a month, but escaped from there in two weeks. Now, says that India - a terrible trash, compared with which even the poverty-stricken Cambodia - a civilized country! The fact that in January 2008, I traveled with him on the south-east Asia: Hong Kong-Cambodia-Thailand.
"In India people are coming, attracted by Buddhism, yoga and other east. But the majority of them dramatically changed its view of these charms, especially if you do not live in the five-star hotel. Love this country can only be mad - I give the words of my friend's seasoned travel. Neither Asia nor Africa nor South America with Australia, it is not broke. But India, he could not resist.
Well, that Artem wrote in detail about everyday troubles and physical difficulties of Tibet. If someone suddenly decided to repeat such a trip - again read the detailed text Artem and well-good think if you can stand it! In Tibet, there is no three-star or even odnozvezdnyh hotels with more or less European service. Or at least the Soviet services. It is not even Cambodia. My friend told me that not all returned from there and healthy living, especially women. He saw a couple of corpses, which is our Russian tourists (quite strangers to the corpses of people) had to take out their own expense, since no one on them (the corpses) are simply not paying attention. Buddhism ...
In this perspective, one can only marvel at the inhumane treatment inflicted by the inviting party, which has been subjected to a real risk of several of their guests.