Sakya Monastery – built in 1073 A.D. in the Sakya County of Shigatse Prefecture, the Sakya Monastery is the patriarch temple of the Sakya Sect of Tibetan Buddhism. The temple was enlisted as one national key cultural relic protection site by the State Council in 1961. Taking up an area of 45,000 square kilometers,…

  Mt. Kailash, also called Gang Rinpoche, lies near Lake Manasarowar and Lake Rakshastal in Nagri of China’s Tibet Autonomous Region. Gang is the Tibetan word for snow peak and rinpoche is an honorific word meaning “precious one”, so the combined term can be translated into “precious jewel of snows“. It is considered a sacred…

Mr.and Mrs.Edwards now is working in Chengdu and paid a visit to our office on April 28, 2014. They are going to make a trip from China to Nepal across Tibet. Mr. and Mrs. Edwards had a picture with Mr.Tony Yin,  the senior travel consultant of Tibet Travel Org.  The trip they booked with us is…

In the winter of 2013, Angela, a 7-year old girl from China, together with her parents and brother traveled across the Himalaya range. They drove from Nepla to Tibet, passing through plain, canyon and high plateau. The highest point (5300 meters above sea level) they reached was the Himalaya Observation Deck, located in the Tingri…

  Photo shows a Tibetan artist works on a piece of Thangka painting at the scene during an exhibition held in the National Museum of China. Altogether 65 masterpieces by Nyangbon, an inheritor of Regong Thangka, are on show from April 10 to May 13. Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai Province is the hometown…

On 18 April 2014, an avalanche on Mount Everest near Everest Base Camp killed sixteen Nepalese guides. As of 20 April, thirteen bodies had been recovered. The search for the three remaining bodies was called off due to the difficulty and risk of retrieving them. Some Sherpa guides were angered by the government’s meagre offer…

Solar halo observed in Tibet on May 5th, 2014, and lasts 3 hours in Lhasa. It is a luminous halo parallel to the horizon at the altitude of sun, cause by ice crystals in the atmosphere.

Tibetan mastiff is called “do khyi” in Tibetan, it is an ancient breed and type of domestic dog.The Tibetan Mastiff is considered a primitive breed. It typically retains the hardiness which would be required for it to survive in Tibet and the high-altitude Himalayan range, including the northern part of Nepal, India and Bhutan. Tibetan Mastiff…

Big snow on Karo la pass(5039m high)

  As the second season of the documentary “A Bite of China” premiered in China, Tibetan cates that appeared in the film also caught audiences’ eyes. Owning a history of over 100 years, now tea houses majoring in sweet tea has been densely covering Lhasa city, providing unique leisure time for more and more local…