As Tibetan Losar Festival approaches, Lhasa New Year markets have already been booming up. Roaming around Barkor Supermarket and Tromsikhang Street, we find that hundreds of thousands of new year goods have closely packed along the avenues and streets of Tibet. In addition to sweet candies and dried nuts, how much do you know about…

Tibet boasts of world-class tourist resources that are rich and unique with towering mountain ranges, tranquil holly lakes, majestic natural sceneries, raw folk customs and cultures. In this mystical land, there are sceneries and historic sites represented by Mount Everest, Yarlung Tsangpo River, Changtang National Nature Reserve, Potala Palace and Jokhang monastery, etc. With its…

Tibet is a wish-list destination for many travelers from all over the world. But do you really know what to do in your Tibet tour or where to go for the most authentic travel experience? In this post, I’ll introduce top eight things and places for you to explore Tibetan local life and culture. 1.…

1. Tibetan New Year and Chinese Spring Festival on Feb. 21, In China, the Tibetan New Year and the Spring Festival are not fixed. Sometimes the difference is two or three days, sometimes a month apart. However, there are overlaps, and it happens to be the same day: Feb. 21, , in the Gregorian calendar.…

Traveling to Tibet in the winter months does have its advantages, such as cheaper accommodation, discounted flights, lower train ticket commissions (than in summer), and fewer tourists crowding the amazing attractions of Lhasa and Mount Everest. But what can you do in Tibet in the winter months? Where can you go and what can you…

On the high-altitude plateau, known as the Roof of the World, Tibet has become one of the most sought-after destinations in Asia for discerning tourists. A land of lakes and mountains, rivers and valleys, and filled with devout Tibetan Buddhists, this unique region is a head and shoulders above the rest, literally. Travel to Tibet…

As the New Year starts, bringing with it a new beginning, there is no better time to head for the high-altitude Tibetan plateau if you want to experience the best of Tibet, without the crowds of tourists that the summer months always bring. While Tibet may be closed from the week before the Tibetan New…

Why Visit Kailash during Saga Dawa Festival? The Saga Dawa Festival in Tibet is the grandest of all the festivals, with the exception of Losar, the Tibetan New Year. The festival is celebrated for an entire month, and is known as the Month of Merits, due to the fact that any positive or negative actions…

If you have decided to have a trip to Tibet in , there are many things you need to prepare, including the necessary documents, tickets, your health conditions, a detailed packing list and so on. Due to the particular environment of Tibet, you also need to have some basic medical knowledge of traveling to Tibet.…

Origin of Tibet Shoton Festival As one of the largest and most popular festivals in Tibet, the Shoton Festival actually dates back to around the 11th century, at a time when Buddhism in Tibet was recovering from the fractured period of the 9th to 11th centuries in the Tibetan Empire. The Indian lama, Atisha, was…