Tibet Travel Guide, Advice and Tips
Latest highly practical Tibet Travel advice about weather, best time to visit Tibet, cost, permits, transportation, attractions, high altitude sickness, maps, etc. Check the tips and information for your traveling in Tibet.
Tibet is a pearl on Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. A trip to Tibet is not as tough as you thought. Read this step-by-step guide from your door to Tibet!
How to Plan a Trip to Tibet - Step by Step
Eric
Trip Advisor
Tibetan medicine is a unique medical system formed through long-term practice on the basis of extensive absorption and integration of theories of Chinese medicine, Indian medicine, and Arabian medicine. You will see the origin, theory, and main herbal medicine.
Tibetan Medicine
Catherine
Trip Advisor
Handmade art has been an indispensable part of the lives of the Tibetan people. When talking about Tibetan handicrafts, people would think of Thangka, Tibetan incense, Tibetan medicine, Tibetan knife, Tibetan ornaments, etc.
Tibetan Handicrafts
Eric
Trip Advisor
Tibetan food is waiting for you in Lhasa. A mix of healthy and delicious cuisines honed and perfected through years on the plateau. Popular dishes include Tsampa, butter tea, yak meat, yogurt, etc., which are also the staple diet in Tibet.
Tibetan Food and Cuisine
Eric
Trip Advisor
Mount Kailash kora is the most pious pilgrimage for believers. Tourists can also do trekking tours around the Kailash for the longing of Tibet, the snow mountains and lakes. Here travel tips showing the maps and trekking details.
Mount Kailash Kora Route Map
Guest Blogger
Trip Advisor
Maps of Tibet shows the location of Tibet on the world, Asia, and China. What's more, you can clearly get the information about Tibet attractions, transportation, Tibetan Plateau terrain, travel routes, rivers' resources from these maps.
Where is Tibet?
Eric
Trip Advisor
Travelers to Tibet are often confused by how to refer to Tibet money. The official name for Tibet currency is Renminbi, which is abbreviated to RMB. Here you will find detailed info about currency exchange, credit card, debit card as well as international transfers in Tibet.
A Quick Guide to Tibet Currency and Money
Caroline
Trip Advisor
Visiting various Tibetan monasteries would be part of your Tibet trip. Here's the list of the top 10 Tibetan Buddhism Monasteries, from which You can not only see the marvelous religious artworks but also discover the spiritual home of Tibetan people.
Top 10 Tibetan Monasteries
Guest Blogger
Trip Advisor
As the capital city of Tibet Autonomous Region, Lhasa offers a unique experience for all people who visit its majestic scenery and peaceful culture. It's the land of the gods and the most sacred place for Tibetans.
Lhasa city
Guest Blogger
Trip Advisor
The Spring and Autumn time are regarded as the best time for Tibet Trekking. Throughout these period there's no railfall that quits your walking scenic tour in Tibet and also it's not too hot to stroll in the wildness of Tibet.
Best Time for Trekking in Tibet
Beatrice
Trip Advisor
Traveling to Tibet by train is one of the best ways to explore Tibet. Lanzhou, the capital city of Gansu province is an excellent gateway to Tibet. Thus there are large quantities of tourists take a train tour to Tibet from Lanzhou.
Lanzhou Tibet Train
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Trip Advisor
As a major city of China, Tibet train tour from Guangzhou is convenient.Train to Lhasa from Guangzhou depart every other day, having your Tibet tour by train will offer you a flexible schedule.
Guangzhou Lhasa Train
Caroline
Trip Advisor
Friendship Highway (also known as the China-Nepal highway) is the only international highway in Tibet up to now. After the line was opened to traffic in 1965, countless tourists travel from Lhasa to Kathmandu or vice versa.
Friendship Highway
Guest Blogger
Trip Advisor
The Himalayas, which lie on the southern edge of the Qinghai-Tibet plateau, are located in China Tibet, Pakistan, India, Nepal, and Bhutan. 9 out of the top 10 peaks in the world are all are the Himalayas. Check Himalaya Mountains facts and details.
Himalayan Mountains
Guest Blogger
Trip Advisor
A guide to Tibetan customs and traditions for visitors covering the form of greetings, etiquette, eating, drinking, tea culture, sky burial, and more travel advice.
Tibet Customs and Traditions
Catherine
Trip Advisor
Tibetan art is closely related to Tibetan Buddhism culture. The art forms include Tibetan wall art, Thangka, Tibetan Butter Sculpture, Sand Mandalas, and Tibetan Cliff and Rock Carving, etc. Those artistic expression help tourists know more about the mysterious Tibet.
Tibetan Art
Eric
Trip Advisor
To understand the Tibet religion as a whole, we should start from understanding Yungdrung Bon, which is the indigenous region of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. After Buddhism spread to Tibet from India, it's also been greatly influenced by Bon religion.
Tibet Religion
Catherine
Trip Advisor
Altitude sickness is a major concern for most travelers. Since the average altitude of Tibet is more than 4,000 meters (13123.36 feet), people from plain/low altitude area visit here are likely to suffer illness due to the less sudden change of the oxygen content and weather.
How to Deal with Altitude Sickness?
Caroline
Trip Advisor
Ngari attracts countless explorers to conquer. Lake Manasarovar and Mt. Kailash are known as holy lake and sacred mountain respectively.
The Best of Ngari You Can Experience
Guest Blogger
Trip Advisor
Tibet, the full name is Tibet Autonomous Region, also been called the roof of the world and the third pole. It occupies the areas of 1.22 million sq km, with an average altitude of above 4000 meters. You will also see the effects of Tibetan Buddhism in Tibet's culture and history.
Tibet Facts
