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October 06, 2006
Lhasa Disco
While in Lhasa recently, I supped more than once at the Tengyelink Café... best steak, tacos, and Indian food in all of Western China. But that's beside the point of this entry. While conversing with the lovely waitresses at that fine dining establishment, it was recommended to me that a delightfully entertaining evening could be found in Lhasa at a certain discotheque by the name of Neeway Nangma.
On the advice of these young women I walked the fifteen minutes from my lodgings at the Dongcuo Youth Hostel to this popular night spot on Lingkor Bei Lu. What I found there amazed me... a scene both completely un-Chinese and completely un-Western: something uniquely Tibetan and groovy. I'd recommend a visit to Neeway Nangma for anyone who's visiting Lhasa and finds the nightlife options a bit lacking in excitement. Here are two video samples of what awaits you... first, the awesome spectacle of the Tibetan disco circle:
And just to show you the diversity of the entertainment, here's some sort of quasi-traditional circle stomp that took place later in the evening:
Neeway Nangma, Lhasa's premier nightclub, is located five minutes walk northwest of the Ramoche Temple at 13 Lingkor Bei Lu... 75 meters east of the intersection with Dousenge Lu. The action takes place from 10:30pm to 4:30am every evening.
posted October 06, 2006 at 10:26 AM unofficial Xinjiang time | HaoHao This!