White is the most common color in southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region as the Tibetans love and worship the white color. In Tibet, white symbolizes justice, kindness, nobility, purity, auspiciousness as well as festival. As long as it is white, it becomes a reason for Tibetans to worship and love. Tibetan people connect white…

  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…

  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,…

  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…

  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…

  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…

  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…

  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…

  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…

  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…