2014 Sumzom Horse Racing Festival was held in Sumzom township of Bome County, Tibet, in the past couple of days, with over 4,000 people taking part in. Sumzom Horse Racing Festival involves many activities, among which are horse racing, horsemanship, folk dances, and field races, to name a few. Not only local residents in…

  Tibetan pilgrims fully enjoy the religious freedom to take ritual walks, pay homage to Buddha, burn incense, give alms and conduct other religious activities during traditional religious festival. Tibet reports above 1,700 temples and monasteries of Tibetan Buddhism so far with 46,000 registered monks and nuns. Small prayer halls or shrines are virtually popular…

  Wild honey produced from Nyingchi Prefecture of Tibet has become popular on electronic business platform, as the second season of the documentary “A Bite of China” premiered, Tibet Commercial News reported. In the first episode of “A Bite of China” (II), audiences’ eyes were caught by the story of a Tibetan honey hunter Pema…

  Bright multi-colored tulips bloom in the Dragon King Park of Lhasa, attracting local residents and tourists to hold their steps and take photos of the old city’s fascinating beauty in spring. Tulips were first introduced to Tibet in November, 2012. Plateau-friendly tulips of eight species were first grown at Dzongyab Lukhang Park, courtyard of…

  The BOT project investment promotion conference of the Xichang (Sichuan province) – Shangrila (Yunnan province) Highway was held in Chengdu, South China’s Sichuan province, on April 9. The highway’s construction is expected to kick off this year with a planned construction period of five years. The highway connects the Xichang-Panzhihua (Sichuan province) Highway with…

  Midui Glacier is located in the Yupug Township of Pome County, Nyingchi Prefecture of Tibet Autonomous Region. It is the lowest glacier in the world and also an important oceanic glacier. In 2005, Midui Glacier was rated as one of the most beautiful glaciers in China. The main peak of Midui Glacier is 6800…

  Photo taken on Apr. 17, 2014 shows the vast areas of salt pans in Tsakhalho county, located in the southeast of Tibet with an average altitude of 2,400 meters. As a unique landscape in the world, the salt pan in Tsakhalho has become a tourist magnet. It has been developed as a nature reserve…

  Audiences watch a Thangka exhibition held in the Mass Art Center of Tibet in Lhasa, capital of southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, April 10, 2014. Themed as “artistic charm from fingertip“, the exhibition showcases over 30 pieces of Thangka works from more than 10 inheritors of Khentse genre, a major genre of Tibetan Thangka.

  With a long history of trade contacts, southwest China’s Tibet has developed a close relationship with Nepal. Many Nepalese take Tibet as their second home. And, the “Nepal fever” in Lhasa gets more prevalent with Nepal’s food and condiments imported into the region. Since the 1990s, Nepalese restaurants have sprung up in Lhasa. Besides the famous…

Drak Yerpa, located in Dagze County of Lhasa with at an altitude of around 4,000 meters, is one of the fanes constructed under the order of Songtsen Gampo, the 7th century Tibetan king, as a gift to his concubine, and later became one of the four main monasteries for meditation in Tibet. Famous for its…