Xichang-Shangrila Highway to Start Construction

Xichang-Shangrila Highway to Start Construction

  The BOT project investment promotion conference of the Xichang (Sichuan province) – Shangrila (Yunnan province) Highway was held in Chengdu, South China’s Sichuan province, on April 9. The highway’s construction is expected to kick off this year with a planned construction period of five years. The highway connects the Xichang-Panzhihua (Sichuan province) Highway with…

April 23, 2014 BY Kunga

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Midui Glacier of Tibet

Midui Glacier of Tibet

  Midui Glacier is located in the Yupug Township of Pome County, Nyingchi Prefecture of Tibet Autonomous Region. It is the lowest glacier in the world and also an important oceanic glacier. In 2005, Midui Glacier was rated as one of the most beautiful glaciers in China. The main peak of Midui Glacier is 6800…

April 21, 2014 BY Kunga

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Colorful Salt Pans in SE Tibet

Colorful Salt Pans in SE Tibet

  Photo taken on Apr. 17, 2014 shows the vast areas of salt pans in Tsakhalho county, located in the southeast of Tibet with an average altitude of 2,400 meters. As a unique landscape in the world, the salt pan in Tsakhalho has become a tourist magnet. It has been developed as a nature reserve…

April 18, 2014 BY Kunga

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Thangka Exhibition Held in Tibet

Thangka Exhibition Held in Tibet

  Audiences watch a Thangka exhibition held in the Mass Art Center of Tibet in Lhasa, capital of southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, April 10, 2014. Themed as “artistic charm from fingertip“, the exhibition showcases over 30 pieces of Thangka works from more than 10 inheritors of Khentse genre, a major genre of Tibetan Thangka.

April 17, 2014 BY Kunga

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Nepal Fever in Lhasa

Nepal Fever in Lhasa

  With a long history of trade contacts, southwest China’s Tibet has developed a close relationship with Nepal. Many Nepalese take Tibet as their second home. And, the “Nepal fever” in Lhasa gets more prevalent with Nepal’s food and condiments imported into the region. Since the 1990s, Nepalese restaurants have sprung up in Lhasa. Besides the famous…

April 16, 2014 BY Kunga

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Drak Yerpa-Secret Fane in Cliffs

Drak Yerpa-Secret Fane in Cliffs

Drak Yerpa, located in Dagze County of Lhasa with at an altitude of around 4,000 meters, is one of the fanes constructed under the order of Songtsen Gampo, the 7th century Tibetan king, as a gift to his concubine, and later became one of the four main monasteries for meditation in Tibet. Famous for its…

April 15, 2014 BY Kunga

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New Airline to Open in Chamdo, Tibet

  The first airline linking Chamdo Prefecture, Tibet, Chongqing Municipality and Sichuan Province will be launched on April 1st. The Tibet Airline will run a new airline, subsidized by the local government on April.1, which was temporary arranged to operate three flights each week for the preliminary stage, in order to meet the great demand…

March 25, 2014 BY Kunga

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