Peacock Costume in Burang

  Burang, the border town with Nepal and India in Nagri Prefecture, southwest Tibet has the most unique and exquisite “Burang costume” with a history of 1000 years. Not far from the Burang town,7 households in Kegya County by the Peacock river have preserved 7 suits of Burang costumes handed down by ancestors. There is…

December 16, 2013 BY Kunga

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Tibet Wind Farm Starts Turning

  World’s highest wind farm at 4,700 meters has gone into operation in Nagchu prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, the last region in China to utilize wind power. The completed project will have 33 wind turbines capable of putting out 49.5 megawatts. Tibet is a very windy place which receives a lot of sunlight. Developing new,…

December 13, 2013 BY Kunga

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Swarms of Climbers Reach Top of Tibet’s Mountains This Autumn

  More than 150 mountaineers from home and aboard reached the summit of snow mountains during this autumn’s mountaineering season in Tibet. The average altitude of the region is over 4,000 meters. Tibet is the motherland of five mountains higher than 8,000 meters and more than 70 higher than 7,000 meters. The region has unique…

December 13, 2013 BY Kunga

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Wild Animals Double in Tibetan Nature Reserve

  The populations of wild Tibetan antelopes, donkeys and yaks in Changtang Nature Reserve in southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region have roughly doubled thanks to effective protection efforts in the past 20 years. With an average altitude of more than 5,000 meters, the Qiangtang Nature Reserve has an area of 298,000 square km. It became…

December 12, 2013 BY Kunga

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Black-Necked Cranes-Unique Scenery in Winter

  Now people can find traces of rare wild birds such as black-necked cranes and bar-headed geese at many places of Tibet, i.e. the Lhalu Wetland, natural reserves at the middle reaches of Yarlung Zangbo River, Maizhokunggar County etc. Each winter, tourists and amateur photographers are lured to Tibet by the scenery when herds of…

December 12, 2013 BY Kunga

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One of World’s Purest Areas-Tibet

  The Tibet Plateau is the third-cleanest area in the world in terms of its environment, after the South Pole and North Pole. It has a clean and transparent atmospheric environment. If you ever come to this place, you may tell yourself that this is what heaven looks like. Come and have a journey in…

December 11, 2013 BY Kunga

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Amazing Thangka of Tibet

  Thangka is the Tibetan word for art images created on rolls of silk or satin. The art form recreates Tibetan anecdotes or folk customs and images of the Buddha. It’s an art handed down over a thousand years. It’s listed as a part of China’s Cultural Heritage. When traveling in Tibet, you can see…

December 11, 2013 BY Kunga

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Seeking Tsangyang Gyatso’s Hometown-Lebugou

  Here is the place inhabited by the Monba people. It is the place bounded by Bhutan and India and is the oxygen bar on the plateau. It is also the original eco-tourist resort nearest the city of Lhasa. Currently, the area is only open to domestic guests. Maybe it is the hometown of Tsangyang…

December 10, 2013 BY Kunga

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Passionate Red-Damxung Horse Racing Festival

  When the young men dressed in horseman clothes and flat-topped caps with red tassels come to take part in the festival, their horses are all dressed up beautifully. The bright red saddles forms a line of red rays, shining on the girls and audience who are there watching the game. The flaming passion can…

December 10, 2013 BY Kunga

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Searching Antiques in Tibet

  In search for rare antiques in Tibet, a natural and predestined opportunity is quite necessary. Everything in the Tibetan land, a log, a stone, a Thangka, a musical instrument, or a Buddha statue, is filled with craftsmen’s spirituality. So, the objects you have collected selectively and those which are filled with wisdom will always…

December 5, 2013 BY Kunga

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