This essay is about a veritable City of Flies. After having taken 16 hours to reach this place from Lhasa through the highest and most dangerous road I've ever encountered (at one point the bus had to drive through a road washed away by a flash flood, with us almost with it), we arrived to find that every road in town had been dug up leaving the road nothing more than a river of sewage. If …showed first 75 words of 613 total…

…showed last 75 words of 613 total…and just as suspect information (to name a couple: the British had just over 1,000 troops, not 10,000 as it claims, and the journalist Edmund Candler, while suffering a dozen serious injuries, wasn't killed but in fact wrote a bestseller- I remember reading his account of the Great War while cycling through the battlesites of Western Europe). The latter site houses some of Tibet's most renowned works of art as well as its highest stupa- the Kumbum.