{"id":6088,"date":"2019-08-06T14:28:28","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T14:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluelotusadventures.com\/?p=6088"},"modified":"2019-08-06T16:02:18","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T16:02:18","slug":"potala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelotusadventures.com\/index.php\/2019\/08\/06\/potala\/","title":{"rendered":"Potala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Potala Palace is the highlight of Lhasa and the residence of the Dali Lama since 1649.\u00a0 The current Dali Lama (14th) lives in exile in Dharmasala, India.\u00a0 Access to the Potala has varied over the years.\u00a0 My first visit in 2006, there were many places with in the palace you can visit.\u00a0 Currently, visitors are only permitted in a small section of the palace and once you enter the inner sanctum, no photos are permitted.\u00a0 Still this is a worthwhile visit.\u00a0 Your guide will arrange for tickets and he\/she must accompany you through the entire visit.<\/p>\n<p>For me, the highlight is walking the Kora.\u00a0 Many Tibetan pilgrims travel from all over Tibet to circumambulate in a clockwise direction<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Potala Palace is the highlight of Lhasa and the residence of the Dali Lama since 1649.\u00a0 The current Dali Lama (14th) lives in exile in Dharmasala, India.\u00a0 Access to the Potala has varied over the years.\u00a0 My first visit in 2006, there were many places with in the palace you can visit.\u00a0 Currently, visitors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelotusadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelotusadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelotusadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelotusadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelotusadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6088"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bluelotusadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6093,"href":"https:\/\/bluelotusadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6088\/revisions\/6093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelotusadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelotusadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelotusadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}