We love to visit museums, temples, parks, shrines, historic sites, and scenic wonders. But what we really love most of all is observing and meeting people -- seeing how they work, eat, argue, dance, sing, worship, and play. Most of the pictures in this album were taken in the Barkohr -- the ancient neighborhood of stone houses, narrow streets, tiny shops, sacred shrines in the heart of the oldest part of Lhasa. Because the Barkohr is also the site of both the Jokhang Temple -- the most sacred site in Tibetan Buddhism -- and the mosque that presides over Lhasa's lively Muslim Quarter, it is an eclectic meeting place teeming with pilgrims, families, soldiers, workmen, tourists, and vendors of every description. In short, it is an ideal location for world-class people-watching.
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