Yak Hotel is the purveyor to the back packers came from all over the world. It costs about 20 or 30Gen (1$ =10Gen) for one night. It was quite at home in the dormitory including 5 to 8 beds with a public lavatory and shower.
It is just as well that you enjoy basking in the sun at a courtyard or planning trip with a partner. The best thing to get latest information is to ask back packers like us. They give us information in details as far as they know.
"For instance, that restaurant's Tukpa(Tibetan noodle soup) was quite good and inexpensive."
"It costs me 25Gen from here to there."
"That hotel was so dirty and has many bedbugs. It was much awful."
"If you are acting like Chinese, you will get an admission ticket at 1Gen at the Potala palace. Actually it costs 40Gen"
The information studied as hard as I could before I leave Japan will be outdated. So we can get fresh and valuable information at such a place.
Shopping at supermarket
We had information that there is no big city like Lhasa from here to Katmandu. We went to the supermarket to buy food before leaving. It took a few minutes from Yak Hotel to supermarket. They had every conceivable kind of merchandise in this shop such as miscellaneous goods for daily use like shirts, hats, souvenir, tools, and so on... Of course, they have less variation but it's enough to live in Tibet.
At the supermarket, there are crowded with many kinds of vegetables, fruits, canned food, chocolates and snacks. Every people thought of nothing but evaluating and negotiating price with shop owner. So we did.
The department store in Tibet looked like Japanese one built few decades ago. It has food floor at 1F and closing and electric appliance at 2F. Suites usually we wear at work came into new fashion in Tibet. It costs higher than other clothes.
The items we bought the day.
- instant noodles
- dried noodles
- 2 dozen of Chocolate (Stick type)
- some kind dried fruits
- canned pork
- 761 (compressed very hard biscuits for Chinese military)
- skim milk
- pineapple juice powder
- a lot of candy
- green pepper
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