There are 1,500 lakes on the Qinghai-Tibet plateau scattering around the snowy mountains like pearls at the altitude of 4,100 to 4,900 meters. They cover an area of 241.83 square kilometers, accounting for one third of the total areas of lakes in China. Among them, the Namtso Lake, the Lake Manasarovar and the Yamdroktso…

  Tibet Autonomous Region received a record 230,000 tourists during the just-ended Spring Festival holiday. The number of visitors from home and abroad to the plateau land over the week-long holiday, which ended on Thursday, grew 7.81 percent year on year, with tourism revenues increasing 13.3 percent to 185 million yuan (30.5 million U.S. dollars).

  In recent years, a growing number of tourists prefer to spend in the Chinese lunar New Year in Lhasa, capital city of Tibet. Every year since the New Year’s Eve, the hotels, big or small, are full of tourists from different corners of China.

  Tibetans have started to prepare for Losar, Tibetan New Year that falls on March 2 this year. The fairs and markets in Tibet’s Shigatse are full of people carrying sheep heads (an essential item for the New Year sacrifice) or Tibetan wooden boxes, and walking in a rush to pick various items for the…

  Nagri, located in northwest Tibet, is the “closest land to heaven”. On top of the world’s roof, this place welcomes its night at about 9pm. Tourists always get lost in the milk way at that moment, which is so pure and magnificent.

Tibetans in Lhasa have been preparing for the new year of both the Tibetan calendar and Chinese lunar calendar. Residents are immersed in purchasing New Year goods, including traditional decorations, clothing and other gifts, which enhances the happy atmosphere in Lhasa.

  On Jan. 24, the High-level Tibetan Buddhism College of China was holding interesting and fun activities to welcome and celebrate the upcoming Chinese New Year. All the faculty and students took part in the games to wave goodbye to the past year and usher in the new. Kunden Soba has been a faculty member…

  60-year-old Namgo came to worship Buddha in Lhasa from the Ngapa Tibetan-Qiang Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan Province. It has been her lifetime aspiration to pay homage to the holy Potala Palace, Jokhang Temple, and Ramoche Temple in Lhasa, the capital city of the Tibet. Now her dream has come true. Even though Namgo doesn’t…

  Namjagbarwa, meaning a spear piercing into the sky, is a cloud-kissing peak. Surrounded by clouds and mists, snuggled by the river and valley and clustered round by forest, Namjagbarwa is appraised as the most beautiful mountain in China. Located at Nyingchi Prefecture in the southeastern part of China’s Tibet, Namjagbarwa is the fifteenth highest…

  Colorful sutra streamers flutter above the Tanggula Mountains. Located in the northeastern part of Tibet and on the border of Qinghai Province, Tanggula Mountains, meaning “mountain in highland” in Tibetan language, has an average height of 6,000 meters.