There are places where a journey begins with a plan.
Tibet is not one of them.
I arrived in Lhasa with the vague intention of seeing Tibet, which is roughly as precise as deciding to see Europe. Tibet is enormous, the roads go on forever, the mountains refuse to end and somewhere beyond all this there are sacred lakes, monasteries, villages, passes and a road leading eventually towards Mount Everest and Mount Kailash.
So I started in Lhasa.
The city was already doing its best to confuse me. Pilgrims walked in circles around temples, scooters appeared from nowhere, taxis stopped where taxis apparently should not stop, monks disappeared through wooden doors and people carried plastic bags containing things whose importance I could only guess at.
Tibet - episode 2
— Leonard Szuszkiewicz (@Tribudragon) September 27, 2026
My journey across the Roof of the World.
This is Tibet away from the postcards: people going about their daily lives in a city where tradition and modern China meet at every corner.#Tibet #Journey #documentary pic.twitter.com/JuWeIuwGQt
I’m counting the green and blue license plates on the streets. What proportion do they make up?
The cars, however, did not seem particularly interested in me.
This is one of the pleasures of Lhasa. You can stand on a street corner for ten minutes with a camera and the traffic remains completely indifferent. Cars do not smile, wave, pose or ask whether you have a YouTube channel. They simply keep coming. They have been doing it for a very long time and have no reason to change their behaviour because a Polish traveller has arrived.





