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Day 7: sightseeing of Potala Palace & Drepung monastery

First, you'll visit the Potala Palace of the Dalai Lama, a treasure of Tibetan culture was, until 1965 the
seat of both faith and politics in Tibet and quite probably, the singularly most significant building in all
Tibet. It had been built in the seventh century by Songtsen Gompa as a fort and later modernized by the
fifth Dalai Lama within the seventeenth century to its gift stipulation. Your next stop is going to be
Norbulingkha the summer palace of the Dalai Lama, that was designed, within the eighteenth century.

Next, you'll visit the Drepung monastery. This can be the biggest monastery in the world and once
housed 10,000 monks and nuns. It absolutely was built in 1419 and also the second, third and fourth
Dalai Lamas lived and were entombed here.