Expectations

During my travels to Asia, I hope to have a travel experience that feels foreign. Beyond that, here are my top ten anticipated highlights:

–Beijing: Forbidden City, Great Wall
–Xian: Terracota Warriors
–staying with rural Tibetan family on Yellow River
–seeing Lhasa, gaining insight into its history during the past 100 years, seeing the Potala Palace
–seeing Everest
–(trying to) sleep at Rongphu Monastery at 15,000 feet altitude
–gaining insight into spiritual understanding of Tibetans
–visiting the headwaters of the Ganges River
–trekking in the Himalalyan high country in India
–#10, meeting some different people I can think of as new friends