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Travels through Tibet
4th – 8th August 2004

This wonderful photographic display follows the journey of a local couple as they travelled through Tibet in 2000. As part of a larger trip through Asia, Simon and Andrea Binks spent 5 weeks in Tibet in September 2000. The prints on show record their personal memories of this trip, during which they travelled from the Tibetan capital Lhasa to the Base Camp of Mount Everest.

For centuries the mysterious lands of Tibet have held a unique fascination for Western travellers. Locked away in the mountainous refuge of the Himalayas, Tibet was once an unknown Buddhist kingdom, which until recently was off limits to foreign travellers.

Once know as the ‘Forbidden City' the Tibetan capital Lhasa is growing in popularity amongst more adventurous tourists, and still remains the heart and soul of Tibet . Before touching down in Lhasa, the Binks' knew very little of Tibetan history and culture, so the photographs in this exhibition follow the couple's high and lows as they experience first hand one of the most inaccessible countries in Asia. This beautiful and inspiring display of 20 images highlights the incredible, but also precarious, nature of travelling.

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