TY  - BOOK
AU  - Le Sueur,Alec
TI  - The hotel on the roof of the world: five years in Tibet 
SN  - 9781849533430
U1  - 647.9451501 23
PY  - 2013///, c1998
CY  - Chichester, West Sussex
PB  - Summersdale
KW  - Le Sueur, Alec
KW  - Hotels
KW  - China
KW  - Tibet Autonomous Region
KW  - Tibet Autonomous Region (China)
KW  - Description and travel
N1  - First published in 1998
N2  - TRAVEL WRITING. The very aptly named Mr Pong had the kind of breath that could stun at over ten feet...This wasn't just bad - there was something rotten down there. Something had crawled in and died. Gunter howled with laughter as he saw the look of horror on my face. It was the best entertainment he had seen since he had watched Chef chasing yaks through the kitchens. Few foreigners are lucky enough to set foot on Tibetan soil, but Alec Le Sueur spent five extraordinary years there, working in the unlikeliest Holiday Inn in the world. Against the breathtaking beauty of the Himalayas unfolds a highly amusing and enlightening account of his experiences. Fly infestations at state banquets, unexpected deliveries of live snakes, a predominance of yaks and everything yak-related, the unbelievable Miss Tibet competition, insurmountable communication problems and a dead guest are just some of the entertainments to be found at the 'Fawlty Towers' of Lhasa
ER  -