The lowest temperature was -48℃ on the plateau which stood at an elevation of 5800 meters. The sunny sky would change to hail and snow just in a blink, leaving endless whiteness on land. There was no road here but ancient wilderness, stony ledges, trapping dunes, mudflats and even wild yaks that were as powerful…

The aristocratic manors in Tibet were extremely luxurious and prosperous. Should they still exist, they would be national treasures with historic values, like the castles by the Seine River in France, or the Pushkin Manor and the Tolstoy Manor in Russia. The 1950s till witnessed thousands of aristocratic manors in Tibet, but unfortunately, with the…

  Sitting at Everest Base Camp, 5200m above seas level, the highest places a common tourist can reach, you can not help to reach out your hands to touch the starts.Read More: Stargazing on the Roof of the World,Night Sky Photography Tips in Tibet

  To view the breathtakingly beautiful sunset, you have to wake up before 7:00 am, this was the first rays of morning sunlight on the Mount Everest. the summit of the Mt.Everest is 8844 m, where is the nearest place to the Universe on Earth.

A Chinese proverb says “Read thousands of books and travel thousands of miles”. I set to travel not because of this proverb, but I understand it after I have traveled much of the miles. When I did bicycle riding in TIbet, I neither tried to go alone nor intended to look for a companion, for…

Potala Palace, it self decorated with gold, silver, pearl and precious stones, has collected countless most precious treasures of the highland since the 7th century. In Tibet, religious activities are closely related with everyday life of the local people, and the religious culture has exerted a great influence on the development of Tibetan arts. At…

Devin Dance, a religious dance, is a special religious ritual for worshiping various deities in Tibetan Buddhism. As an expressive, outspoken, unrestrained dance, it is invented by the great master Padmasambhava when he was building Samye Monastery. It is also known as “deity dance”. The most distinct features of this dance is that is does…

Along the South Loop Route, a story says that the fresh water in Yarlung Tsangpo River washed the mausoleums nearby and brings the treasure hidden in them to the villages along the river, bit by bit, when the trees turn green and the river rises gradually in spring and summer. This place boasts sapphire-colored water…

In 1867, the Russian explorer Nikolai Pezhevalsky found for the 1st time at Qinghai Lake the blakc-neck crane that is the only species of its kind in the world living at plateau swamps, rivers, lakes and river shoals at an altitude of 2500-5000 meters. This is also a crane found at the most recent time.…

Ranking 1st among the 10 most dangerous highways in China, the Sichuan-Tibet Highway is also the longest highway as present. On this highway it is common to spot disfigured self-help drivers with tanned skins. Their cars are covered with dust, mud and scratches of all sized. Yet they share the same target of dashing all…