I climbed up along the rope and cautiously chose the position of my hands and feet. After climbing half-way up, I looked back to Lhasa. Sunlight sprinkled on the city. Sometimes white clouds drifted across the blue sky. The whole city lifted up its head behind me and we gazed upon each other. Gradually, I…

We saw the Lagarie Palace even before we entered Qusum County. According to historical records, the square of the palace was paved with white and blue gravels of good quality. The central part formed the pattern of Buddhist swastika, lotus and 8 auspicious symbols. The patterns were quite original and delicate. However, much of its…

Many travelers to Lhasa may only focus on the grand Potala Palace, the holy Jokhang Temple, the busy Barkhor Street or the heavenly Lake Namtso. In fact, there are also many other interesting places. They may be known by few tourists, but they are no less awe-inspiring. Take a small village called Caina for example.…

For Tibetan people, burning incense is a daily activity to pray for good fortune. In fact, Tibetan incense is also very popular among tourists from home and abroad. The Tibetan incense is brought in from India 1,300 years ago. These years, Tibetan incense producing becomes popular with the development of tourism. The incense made in…

In the long course of history, Lhokha was acknoledged as “the cradle of Tibetan culture” for a number of “First Places” it had won: the 1st dynasty of Tibetan history–the Tubo Dynasty; the 1st king of Tibet Nyatri Tsenpo; the 1st palace Yongbu Lakang;the 1st Buddhist chapel Trundruk Monastery; the 1st farmland Suodang; the 1st…

In Gega Village, you will have a good view of Mount Namjagbarwa. Located at the Nyingchi area in the southeastern part of China’s Tibet, Namjiagbarwa with an altitude of 25,531 feet (7,782m) ranks as world’s 15th highest peak and 1st in China’s ten most attractive mountains selected in the 2005 Chinese National Geography. It is also…

Our trip to Nanyigou Valley had s misty color because of the foggy weather. 5 km outside Mainling Zong County, we saw a road sign pointing that Nanyigou was ahead. Shortly after that a village of Monba ethnic group came into our sight. It was a stockade village on a green mountain. In between yards…

Mira Mountain is the boundary between Lhasa and Nyingchi. After we drove across the mountain top we reached Nyingchi. At this place at an altitude of 5019 meters, what welcomed us were the prayer flags fluttering in the cold wind, as if thousands of people were chanting the prayer “Om Mani Padme Hum” in a…

At its prime time, Drigong Ti Temple on top of a mountain had 180,000 monks practicing in the monastery. Many of them had to lodge in grottoes, simple state stone sheds or small tents because of the huge number of these monks. The temple was burned in wars, and together with it the drying up…

These flowers of delphinium grandiflorum by the roadside travelling from Lhasa to Kathmandu were very charming and attracted us immediately. Their leaves are deeply lobed with 3 to 7 toothed, pointed lobes in a palmate shape. The main flowering stem is erect, and varies greatly in size between the species, from 10 centimeters in some alpine species,…