Booking tickets for scenic spots online has long been a common thing nowadays, and many people will choose to book tickets online in advance when traveling, so as to avoid the trouble of queuing up to buy tickets on the spot.

But if you accurately define it as the Potala Palace in the high season, it is definitely enough to rise to a shocking level.

Because, in addition to the official website of the Potala Palace, other travel websites can only book group tickets from travel agencies.

Due to the restrictions on the number of visitors to the Potala Palace, the number of tickets released on the official website every day is only a few hundred, which is obviously a drop in the bucket compared with the huge crowd of ticket buyers in the peak season.

Therefore, during the peak season, many people would rather queue up all night to get a reservation ticket than pin their hopes on the slim official website to book tickets.

What's more, there are a lot of uncertainties along the way, and their trip to Lhasa yesterday was only finalized the night before.

But Ning Hao seemed to have predicted it a long time ago, and had already booked a ticket to visit the Potala Palace today, how could this not make Tang Xiaoxiao shocked.

"It's just luck." Ning Hao said with a smile.

"When did you book your tickets?" How do you know that we will be able to reach Lhasa yesterday? Tang Xiaoxiao asked the doubts in his heart with a series of questions.

Ning Hao naturally couldn't tell the truth, so he could only pretend to be mysterious and said, "Do you remember the five-colored sea in Aden?" The legend of the sacred lake is true, and it really has the ability to reverse history and predict the future.

When I was watching the Sea of Five Colors, I accidentally saw a corner of the future and knew what would happen now.

In order not to leave you with regrets about this trip, I specially booked today's tickets in advance. ”

"See a glimpse into the future? I think you've read too many online novels! ”

Tang Xiaoxiao rolled her eyes directly at him, knowing that Ning Hao deliberately didn't want to say it, so he didn't continue to ask.

"Huh."

Ning Hao smiled: "No matter what it is, I have seen too much, in short, the trip I arranged today is surprising enough, right?" ”

"Well, it's a little bit."

……

Walking through the main entrance, the first thing you enter is the Snow City of the Potala Palace, which covers an area of 50,000 square meters and is an important part of the Potala Palace's architectural system.

The word "snow" means below, and Syracuse refers to the villages and towns below the Potala Palace, where there are many buildings to visit.

These included the residences of various classes such as nobles, officials, low-ranking clerks, artisans, serfs, etc., as well as workshops, stables, water supplies, warehouses, and other institutions that provided services for the upper classes of rulers.

and, the various administrative institutions set up by the upper rulers, and even the mint and prisons.

Walking in it, it is like entering a huge class education exhibition hall, and you can feel the extravagance and erosion of the ruling class in Tibetan areas and the miserable situation of the low-class serf class.

There are some places that you can skip while walking in Syracuse, but there is one place you must definitely visit, and that is the Potala Palace Treasure Hall.

There are more than 200 pieces of various treasures on display in the treasure hall, including the seals of the Ming and Qing dynasties, literature classics, Bayeux scriptures, Buddha statues, thangkas, magic vessels, etc., among which Ning Hao is most impressed by the thangka.

The name thangka is a transliteration of the Tibetan word for a religious scroll that is framed in colored satin and hung for worship.

In the Treasure Hall, although the exquisite thangkas have gone through hundreds of years of history, they are still bright and dazzling.

Through understanding Ning Hao, I learned that in order to show the sacredness of thangka, the pigments used in the production of thangka are all precious mineral gems such as gold, silver, pearls, agate, coral, malachite, cinnabar, etc., as well as various plants such as saffron, rhubarb, and indigo.

It is precisely because of these pure natural raw materials that the color of the thangka is still so gorgeous after hundreds of years.

In the process of visiting the Treasure Museum, Ning Hao also heard a tourist with a northeast accent say something like this: Compared with the cultural relics in this treasure museum, those in the Lhasa Museum are simply a pile of garbage!

Although this is an exaggeration, it also illustrates the fact that the real historical treasures of the whole Lhasa and even the entire Tibetan area are all in this Potala Palace.

It took the two of them about half an hour to visit the Treasure Hall, and when they came out of it, Tang Xiaoxiao looked at the watch on his right wrist and asked Ning Hao, "The time you booked for the ticket visit should be ten o'clock, right?" ”

"Hmm."

Ning Hao nodded.

"Then let's go! It's past half past nine now. ”

"Okay."

Ning Hao nodded again, and at the same time sighed in his heart, the Potala Palace was definitely the most troublesome attraction he had ever visited.

Because in addition to the reservation system that cannot be purchased on the same day, the tickets for the Potala Palace also have strict time limits for visiting, for example, Ning Hao booked a visit ticket at ten o'clock, so if the second gate has not been verified beyond this time, then the purchased tickets will be automatically invalidated.

The same applies to the reservation ticket that you will receive in line, but if you do not enter at the specified time, it will be automatically invalidated and you will not be able to continue your visit.

Therefore, if you want to visit the Potala Palace, you must enter one to two hours in advance, first visit Syracuse City, which does not require a ticket, and then visit the White House within the specified appointment time.

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Secretly complaining in his heart, soon the two of them swiped their ID cards again and passed through the turnstile without a wordless monument, and then there were zigzag-shaped climbing stone steps.

At this time, Ning Hao's achievements in walking the Sichuan-Tibet line all the way also appeared, and he had already adapted to the plateau climate, and he no longer had any pressure to climb the stone steps.

During his climbing, he saw that many tourists stopped because of altitude sickness after they had not gone far, and all of them came to Lhasa directly by plane or train, and could not adapt to the plateau climate of Lhasa.

In this way, you can easily climb all the way up, and turn your head down the mountain on the way to overlook the whole view of Lhasa.

Soon, the two climbed the stone steps and came to the square in front of the White House.

Once here, you will actually arrive at the ticket office of the Potala Palace, where visitors who receive their reservation tickets need to buy tickets.

And Ning Hao, who has already booked tickets on the official website, can directly exchange them for tickets with his ID card.

After queuing for more than ten minutes and successfully exchanging tickets for tickets, Ning Hao had to face another tragic restriction.

The White House they are about to visit is limited to one hour!

"It's really troublesome!"

Looking at the ticket in his hand, Ning Hao couldn't help but smile bitterly and muttered to himself.