Potala Palace Toddler T-Shirt

View of the Potala Palace in Lhasa. The building measures 400 metres east-west and 350 metres north-south, with sloping stone walls averaging 3 m. thick, and 5 m. (more than 16 ft) thick at the base, and with copper poured into the foundations to help proof it against earthquakes. Thirteen stories of buildings � containing over 1,000 rooms, 10,000 shrines and about 200,000 statues � soar 117 metres (384 ft) on top of Marpo Ri, the "Red Hill", rising more than 300 m (about 1,000 ft) in total above the valley floor.

Alan Toepfer has traveled extensively for business and pleasure, and has photographed in the U. S., Europe, Russia, South America, Asia, and Antarctica. Landscape, travel, and wildlife are his main subjects. It is the intention of this web site to share with others images he has collected over the past 60 years.