Is it difficult to get there? No actually it is not. Most people think the best way to go about it, is to fly into Lhasa, and go from there. I found a better way was to go overland from Nepal, Kathmandu over the friendship bridge and through places such as Nyalam, Tingri, Skekar, Lhatse or Quxar, Shigatse, Gyantse, Nagartse to Lhasa, over a very small but breathtaking region of the Chinese labeled “Autonomous Region” of Tibet. Of course things change all the time, so make sure you fully update yourself on travel to Tibet, permits, travel ability and general stability of the country politically is never something one should presume. A good travel company should be up to date with the goings on, and also offer some alternative if things change on your planned journey.

Again on travel companies in general, I highly recommend organizing this through one that promises Tibetan guides, and secondly uses locally ran accommodations where ever and whenever possible. Although difficult, there are ways to support Tibetan people along your travels, if you know who to travel with. I know D’Tours Original offer such touring standards.

The best time to travel to Tibet is between September to early November, just keep in mind it starts to get very cold the later you go, and accommodations are not always the warmest. You will need to obtain certain permits to travel, and ATP (Alien Travel Permit) and of course a visa etc. Your travel company can help you obtain all of these things. You do not need a Chinese Visa stamped in your passport before coming to Nepal to travel there either, as long as you a returning the way you came, you should not need this at all. Of course rules continually change, so keep yourself informed via internet, forums and tour company advice.

Why is now the best time to go? Spiritually Tibet stands alone, a stony silence hangs over the air like a clear glass case, although it is heart breaking to see the devastation not only in the once lush landscapes, now raped of anything green and left barren and windswept, and to see the deep set lines on beautiful faces withstanding life saturated with iniquitous treatment of the basic human right to live and breathe one’s own air. However, It a fast growing foreign population, so fast in fact that soon perhaps traces of Tibet may be consumed forever, so better now than later, and it is worth it, if not for the historical splendour that lines each city with monasteries, stupas and Tibetan artistry. The Tibetan people still somehow find their smile, and warmth behind their eyes, offering you the traveller a rich and rewarding insight into strength and courage and beyond all else, a welcome into a country that is and always will be spiritually theirs and theirs alone.

So go now, because it is a place one should not put aside to go later.

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The symbol of Tibet is the majestic Potala Palace perched on top of Marpo Ri Hill in the center of the city of Lhasa. It is the must-go of most visitors to Tibet. The Potala Palace is the religious and political center of Tibet and the former residence of the Dalai Lama. It is the most sacred place in Tibetans’ heart. Although place like Lhasa is definitely somewhere that tourists can not miss, this article is going tell you something about Tibet that is absolutely magnificent but out of the spot lights.

Among the snowy mountains and deep gorges between Tibet and Yunnan, there are some mysterious footpaths winding through the mountainsides, some are even carved into cliff face crossing one of the most dangerous terrain and uninhabitable area in the world. These footpaths have been called the ancient Tea-Horse Road. Hardly to be called a road it starts from Sichuan and Yunnan provinces in Southwest China, runs along the eastern foothills and deep canyons of several major rivers, than heads into Tibet spanning the two highest plateaus of China (i.e. the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the Yunnan-Guizhou plateau), and finally reaches India, south of the Himalayas. But why have these ancient footpaths been called the Tea-Horse Road, who discovered this ancient route into Tibet, and what is the role it plays in the history?

It can be traced back to the Tang Dynasty (618-907). Tibetan people liked drinking Pu-erh tea (i.e. post-fermented tea compressed in thick rectangular blocks, flat squares, discuses or other shapes) because they ate high calories food such as butter, Tsamba, beef, and lamb but consumed very little vegetables. Pu-erh tea not only helped them to digest the heavy food but also offered their Vitamin need. Tibetans did not drink the Pu-erh directly but mixed the tea with the yak butter creating a salty and rich tea which is still common today. However the environmental situation of Tibet did not allow for the growing of the tea. Luckily, the neighboring Yunnan was an ideal land for growing tea, and they made Pu-erh tea in great quality. Those who could manage to transfer the tea from Yunnan into Tibet were going to make good money. On the other hand, Chinese army needed strong warhorses desperately, comparatively Tibetans had a strong mounted army and they also had access to Middle Asia, where possessed the best military horses in the world.

However, it was almost a mission impossible to exchange goods between Tibet and Yunnan, because any possible land connection between the two regions was almost cut off by the harsh terrain. The natural border between Tibetan plateau and Yunnan is formed of endless snowy mountains and deep gorges with steep cliffs which is tough for any land animals to cross the area. Finally the irresistible temptation of making huge profit had given the merchants enough courage to make their way through cleverly however dangerously.

If the mountains could not be climbed they went around them on the mountainsides. By following the rivers they could take advantage of the narrow river banks under the cliffs. In continuous and collective efforts in many years, the trading link was established. Through this route, Yunnan merchants traded Pu-erh tea for strong military horses from Tibetan, and resold these horses to the rest of China. On the other hand, Tibetan merchants also made good money by selling the tea to India and middle Asia. This is why this trading route has been called the Tea-Horse Road.

Therefore, the ancient Tea-Horse Road plays a similar role as the Silk Road, and is a significant part of the international trade in the history. Besides a road of wealth, it was also a road of cultural exchange that created a cultural bond between Tibetans and Chinese in the history, and facilitated the spread of Buddhism in China. Even today, when people are trekking on this ancient route into Tibet, they can still sense the spirit, the courage, and the wisdom devoted to this road, and marvel at this great legacy of our ancient ancestors.

This article is one of China Odyssey Tours’ serial introductions about adventurous China. Other topics include the “Simatai Great Wall, a real adventure tour”, “Home of Giant Pandas – Chengdu”, “Tiger Leaping Gorge and ancient town Lijiang”, “The legend of Dragon Back and the fairy tale of Third Sister Liu”. You would find the adventurous routes cover the above topics though China Odyssey Tours, or custom design a dream route exclusive to you.

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They do? I feel I have prepared well for our hitch-hiking trip by packing winter clothes and by reading the section on Tibet in my road map book of China: “Avoid discussing politics, religion and other sensitive subjects. Bring sunglasses and -cream.” Besides, pick a location, pack and go has always been our travelling style.

But yes, I can see now that it’s certainly going to take more than two days two get from Lhasa to Kunming overland, and that we should have believed the German guy with the frost-bitten lips who’d just driven from Shanghai to Lhasa on a motorbike. He said hitch-hiking in Tibet was impossible and the roads very, very bad: Snowy, rock-strewn and treacherous. This man, we decide in our insane optimism based on the road map, must be lying. .

For political reasons I’ve always been reluctant to go to Tibet, but when I start seeing photos from the new train thundering across the grasslands of Qinghai and northern Tibet, I cave in.
Of course those pictures were taken in summer or early autumn, not in April. In April it’s pretty much: Can’t see a thing because of blizzards.
On the train we meet a Chinese cook eager to educate us about Tibetan history, and learn that before the Chinese liberated Tibet, Lhasa was just a swamp. Also: Potala Palace was built by a Chinese king.

Ah, yes, the Potala Palace, object of a hundred documentaries and scourge of Michael Palin. As usual with world famous monuments it looks much smaller than in the pictures and, it turns out, isn’t the real tourist attraction in liberated Lhasa.

No, what all the red baseball cap-wearing hordes with their shrieking guides have come to see is in fact Potala Square; a veritable Tiananmen in miniature and home of a gigantic phallic monument celebrating the everlasting friendship between Tibetans and Chinese. Around it stand statues of rifle-thrusting workers and peasants, all staring grimly and with much clenching of eyebrows at the Chinese flag in the middle of the square.

In the morning, thousands of Tibetans shuffle round and round Potala Palace in prayer, many prostrating themselves for hours in front of the holy site. In their Tibetan garb and long braids intertwined with red cloth they look startlingly out of place as they lie face down on the wide, Parisian boulevard-style pavement while Han Chinese sporting the latest fashions saunter forth. Shiny cars with black windows zip by on the four-lane highway dominating the square, built to celebrate twenty years of successful liberation.

When the new Qinghai – Lhasa railway was built, many people were concerned about increased masses of mainland and foreign tourists further destroying the Tibetan culture. These people should worry no more – there’s not much left to destroy. At least not architectonically. Apart from some traditional buildings and piss-stinking old winding streets around another site for much prostrating, the Jokhang Temple, Lhasa looks like any Chinese city with green glass-tiled monster houses, badly built apartment blocks and total absence of connection with the past. It seems to be Han Chinese running most businesses. We ask ten or 12 shop keepers how to say “hello” in Tibetan, but nobody knows.

When we discover by leafing through a bunch of old postcards that Potala Palace used to be mirrored by a large, smiling lake lined with weeping willows and traditional Tibetan houses, it all gets too depressing, and in a hurling blizzard we start our hitch-hiking trip back to Hong Kong. The driver is a man we met in a bar the night before and he is a professional. Effortlessly he thunders down the road at 140 km/h in the grey weather while wearing sunglasses, talking on his mobile and watching a movie on the little TV monitor thoughtfully placed on the inside of the windshield.

I have to say I feel some pangs of nervousness several times on that journey as we hurtle through the yak-dotted scenery, and have to laugh in retrospect. Nervous – nothing! That road was paved, and wider than the car! But it is certainly a cause for concern that after an eight hour drive we are just a few millimeters out of Lhasa, according to the map.

The next morning we are immediately picked up, by an official in charge of bringing Guangdong technology to the hinterland. To accommodate him and other investors, a spanking new city, Zhilin, has been plonked down, last week it seems, in the middle of the mountains. I suppose “downtown Shenzhen” doesn’t look more incongruous among these towering snowy ranges than “Tiananmen Square, Shenzhen” does in the middle of Lhasa.

The kind official doesn’t really get our explanation about hitch hiking in Tibet but with unfailing Chinese hospitality he drives us to the next village, immediately turning back the way we’ve come. We catch another lift with some Tibetans who also turn back after dropping us – and that’s the end of private cars in Tibet. We have no choice but to start walking… and continue walking. Not only aren’t there any private cars; there are no vehicles at all.

According to our plans we should be making the descent into Kunming by now; instead here we are with a bottle of water between us, three hours’ walk from the nearest town. Adventurous! We are very happy to pay the next driver 100 yuan each to take us across the next mountain range, scarily high and covered in snow. From then on we realise we are basically travelling across Tibet by taxi.

The road soon becomes a narrow gravelly track hacked out of the vertical mountain face. One centimeter too far to the right and we will plunge scenically into the gully several hundred meters below. Far above there’s a movement, a furious flapping of wings: Vultures. A sky burial! The map book warns against unauthorised visits to these too. But when we pass the feather-flying spot on our way up and forever up, we see they are only feasting on a dead yak.

Our driver on this, what turns out to be a 17 hour, non-stop drive, has just popped out in the morning to get some fags when we shanghai him. He is wearing slippers and a thin jacket. That’s why Lee and I with our superior footwear and clothes have to get out again and again to push the car out of snowdrifts every time it gets stuck, which is often.
When it starts getting dark and we’re pushing the car, waterless and foodless, across yet another endless expanse of snow, we start thinking that distrusting the words of Germans isn’t always a good idea. And neither is trusting the words of certain locals: The next town turns out to have no cash point although everybody said it does. After paying the driver and the hotel we thus have 100 yuan for the journey to Kunming, still well over two days away.

This is what real adventure is all about. Not your boring, predictable “Hitch-hiking through Tibet in a couple of days” but real, concrete fear of death, first from plunging, then from exposure and finally from starvation.

Back in Hong Kong I now have a Zen-like indifference to the minor irritations in life such as being burgled and being told I will soon lose my house. What’s that compared to tumbling down a ravine, broke and really, really hungry?

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In 1992, Brandon and his wife Cheryl travelled 40 days from early October to the end of November in 1992 over 1000 kilometers travelling along the ancient pilgrimage route across Tibet. Evidently, they were one of the first Western couples to trek this ancient route alongside, by the way, a horse they named Sadhu.

Good day Brandon and thank you for accepting our invitation to be interviewed.

Norm: Brandon, could you tell our readers something about yourself and your wife Cheryl, and why did you want to trek across Tibet and did you ever had any fears prior to your journey?

Brandon: Tashi delek, Norm! We had been travelling for years as budget travelers, traveling light, with only a backpack to sustain us for months on end. In the process, we’d made our requisite trip around the world for a year and had seen many of civilization’s greatest achievements. We’d also traveled overland across Africa for nine months (which is the subject of my book to be released in 2005, Dead Men Don’t Leave Tips.) So, we were ready for a more intense experience something more in line with that of the great explorers.

Our decision to attempt to trek from Lhasa, Tibet to Kathmandu, Nepal sprung from the notion that this was the ultimate adventure. Everyone grew up with the legend of a Shangri-La, that fanciful place from James Hilton’s Lost Horizon. The more that I read about Tibet, the more I was fascinated by its remoteness, inaccessibility, and its exotic reputation.

Then, as luck would have it, we were told several times that this trek had never been done by a Western couple and that it was “impossible!” That ultimately sealed our fate.

As far as “fears” prior to the journey, first, I had real concerns that we wouldn’t be allowed into Tibet as independent travelers, since the border had been closed to them for many years. A Chinese organized group tour was simply out of the question for us.

Then, although we were assured the trip was “impossible” due to lack of food, water, accommodations, and maps, personally I was more worried about the weather. Knowing the severity of weather conditions in the Himalayas, would we be able to reach the lower altitudes of Nepal in time before the roads closed, stranding us until May’s thaw?

Finally, I must admit that I was also wary about the reaction of Uzi-toting Chinese soldiers along the way, as well as the various cadres of bureaucrats unused to dealing with outsiders. Guess I’d prefer to deal with nature any day, rather than the vagaries of human nature.

Norm: What were the most harrowing experiences you encountered during your journey?

Brandon: It’s a toss-up. This entire journey was chock-full of uncertainty. The spectre of running out of food and water was a daily concern. Where would we stay? Would our bodies be able to physically able to make 1000 kilometers at 12-17,000 foot altitude for 40 days?

But I’d have to say that the most singularly harrowing experience we had was being shot at by Chinese soldiers as we overlooked Mt. Everest from a hilltop in Tingri. What do you do?

As second runner-up, I’d nominate that morning where we awoke to a blinding blizzard and realized that we still needed to press on.

Norm: What impressed you most of all about the trip?

Brandon: First, we were impressed by the unexpected generosity of the Tibetan people. Originally we packed a tent, stove and fuel for the trek, expecting to be totally on our own along the way. However, after our first night spent camping in a potato patch, we were taken-in by local villagers who shared their meager possessions, including yak butter tea and a warm spot around their fire. We really grew to look forward to these human exchanges, even though we had to rely on clumsy sign-language and a limited phrasebook to communicate. Fortunately, we started to run into former monks who’d received training in Nepal and still spoke limited English.

Through talking to them, we became better informed about the hardships of living in Tibet today under the Chinese Communist occupation. We learned that Tibetans are prevented from making pilgrimages along the same route that we trekked into Nepal, as they’ve done for centuries.

So the trip for us became more than just an “adventure” trek. It became a political statement. If we could make their trek as pilgrims, we’d show to the Chinese that it could be done, even by Westerners, without disrupting the geo-political balance of power.

In fact, on the trek’s conclusion, we presented a set of prayer flags to the king of Nepal’s personal representative at the palace with the hope that the king would fly them as a symbol of solidarity with the Tibetan Buddhists.

Finally, we were impressed by the unwavering faith shown by many of the Tibetans. At night, in the dark stillness of their homes, we shared photos of His Holiness the Dalai Lama with them that we had secreted into the country. Gingerly holding the photo, they touched it to the foreheads of the members of their family, blessing them. Then drawing back several layers of curtains, they reverently placed it in their private altar beside other statues and holy instruments.

After over 40 years of oppression and death, could we still be so patient or retain so much faith?

Norm: If you had to do it all over again in 2004, would you still jump at the opportunity? As a follow up, would you advise anyone else to follow in your footsteps and what are the possible dangers they may encounter today?

Brandon: Frankly, no. This trek is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. From what I’ve read since then, and I receive Tibetan news every day now, the country has vastly changed especially Lhasa. As inundated as it was then with Chinese settlers, solders and foreign culture, it is even more so today. Now, they’re in the process of completing a railroad line into Lhasa from western China, so the transformation will be accelerating, the assimilation complete. The world saw the same effect in Inner Mongolia and Manchuria with the arrival of the railroad.

With that said, I’d love to return, perhaps to the more remote Mustang region this time, far removed from the propaganda tours. Of course this is assuming I would be granted a visa. Writing this book has certainly made that possibility more remote&

However, I would advise readers to explore any part of the world that interests them by walking. There is nothing so satisfying as discovering a culture one-step-at-a-time. This is a traditional way of exploration which creates total immersion in a culture: its food, history, art, architecture, people, language and nature. I like to think of it as a walking meditation, too. You place your body on “auto-pilot” and travel outside, while traveling within.

If readers are interested in this rewarding mode of travel, they can check out several options on my WEB SITE where I have free “how-to” articles about walking some of Europe’s most spectacular pilgrimage routes, along with web links for more information.

Walking across Tibet was the beginning of this, my latest passion.

Norm: How would you describe the relationship with your wife after the trip? Reading the book, I noticed there were some tense moments between you both during the adventure.

Brandon: I really admire Cheryl’s courage and willingness to take a chance. Traveling with daily hardship, uncertainty, and often life-threatening situations, will put any relationship to the test. Fortunately ours survived and this experience provided an even stronger foundation. If we could survive that, why, we could survive anything.

Norm: Did you keep a daily journal while you were travelling?

Brandon: Of course. It was sometimes hard to find the energy or time at the end of one of these 14-hours days to sit down and write. But I wanted this account of our journey to be real, raw, and authenticnot some romanticized notion of adventure travel. To capture that essence (while the blisters were still fresh) was vital. Time heals all wounds, as they say, and if you wait to write about it all later you lose much of the minutiae of the moment until it becomes merely a Disney version of your memorywithout the dancing hippos, of course.

Norm: After you returned home, did you write any magazine articles about your adventure or did you lecture anywhere about it?

Brandon: I wrote magazine and newspaper articles about the experience, and would have liked to lecture about the journey and situation in Tibet. Living in Hawaii, there’s always a logistical problem and cost of traveling outside the islands.

Now that the book is published, if there’s great enough interest throughout North America, I would welcome the chance to talk to groups about this life-changing experience and about the Tibet we grew to appreciate.

Norm: Why did you choose the title Yak Butter Blues for your book?

Brandon: Well, as a global citizen, I was so disturbed by seeing the destruction of this ancient culture; the dismantling of temples, the corruption of monastic life; the re-education of a population where the children are prevented from learning Tibetan in schools; the removal of Tibetan food and clothing from the stores, plus the mass settlement of Han Chinese into Tibet causing Tibetans to become a minority in their country.

It is reaching the point where yak butter tea, that nourishing food that has traditionally fed and sustained a people throughout the centuries will soon be all that remains of an enlightened culture, while all the world looks away. These are the “Yak Butter Blues.”

(Besides, I liked the kind of Kerouac-ian ring to it!)

Norm: Did you ever hear any news about your horse Sadhu you left behind?

Brandon: The Internet is an amazing tool. Although we wrote to his new owner, the fellow who ran the Kathmandu guesthouse, shortly after our return home, we never heard back from him. Just recently, I “Googled” the hostel and was able to reach his brother.

Sadly, Sadhu, our old friend, passed away a couple of years ago at a very ripe old age. He spent his last years in a luxury resort, but will always be remembered by us as the only Tibetan we could bring to freedom.

Norm: Have you kept in contact with anyone you may have met during your trip?

Brandon: Unfortunately not. We sent copies of some of the photos we took along the journey to families we’d met, as our way of thanking them. That’s all.

Norm: How long did it take you to write the book?

Brandon: The first draft of the book was written in a few months. After that, it was revised through several drafts. Then I added the most current news on Tibet I could find, sorted through photos, and incorporated some of the simple truths which were initially planted in the mountains of Tibet and blossomed along more recent pilgrimage treks.

Norm: How are you going to market the book?

Brandon: Ah, the ultimate question! I consider this, in many ways, an extention of the journey. Perhaps, in retrospect, it is just as difficult with over 100,000 books released each year.

We’re reaching out to supporters of a free Tibet, colleges and universities, libraries, adventure travelers, trekking and outdoor organizations, newspapers, international adventure magazines, Buddhist and dharma groups, Indians & Nepalese, and independent bookstores to help get the word out. Much of this has been started and we use the Internet a lot to let people know about our web site.

The national reviews so far have been excellent and I’m awaiting others from abroad. Yak Butter Blues is currently listed on Internet bookseller sites from Europe to North America to Japan and Australia/New Zealand.

I’m also writing and sending articles to related sites and creating links, especially to the vast, displaced Tibetan community, as it is their story as much as our own.

Since book promotion these days ultimately rests with the author, I’m participating in book signings and interviews to further develop interest. As I said, if I find there’s a great enough interest in presentations, I might be tempted to put together some sort of North American tour. Whatja think?

Finally, after all those small moments along the trail where we felt like we owed our survival to some mysterious force, we have learned to “have faith,” to trust that we were meant to have this journey and that I was meant to write this book.

I can only trust that once again we will be blessed and that our audience will find us along life’s trail.

Meanwhile, if readers would like a first-hand look at our journey, complete with a sample chapter, maps, photos, Tibetan music and Tibet/Trekking/Peace links, please drop into my WEB SITE. Then take a moment to sign our guest book, email me, tell your friends, or post a review at Amazon.com. Namaste!

Thanks Brandon and I wish you good luck in all of your future endeavours. _________________________________________________________________

Norm Goldman is editor of bookpleasures.com and sketchandtravel.com. Norm is also a regular contributor to many book reviewing sites and travel sites.

Norm and his artist wife, Lily are a unique couple in that they meld words with art focusing on romantic and wedding destinations. You can learn more about them from their site http://www.sketchandtravel.com.

Norm and Lily are always open to receive invitations to write and paint about romantic destinations in the New England states, New York state and Florida.

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You may think that Tibet in winter is very chilly. In the contrary, it is quite warm. Since Tibet is in a low-latitude area, it gets even warmer than Beijing. The months between November and March of this year, we have seen Tibet bathed in the golden rays of the winter sun. The average daytime temperature in most of the cities and regions of Tibet is between 10 degrees centigrade and 18 degrees centigrade. It is 3 to 5 degrees centigrade higher than Beijing’s. Besides, in winter Tibet has fresher air, better visibility, and breathtaking landscape.

2. Less tourists, more comfortable journeys

Visiting Tibet during the high season can be a deceiving experience for the tourist who wants to enjoy the peaceful and quiet Tibetan atmosphere. The touristic high tide in Tibet often falls in-between May and September. In winter, the renowned tourist attractions such as the Potala Palace and Jokhang Temple get much less crowded. Hence, you can enjoy a more leisurely and comfortable journey without being worried about how to get entrance tickets or struggling to make your way through the crowds.

3. Low season = low prices

Going to Tibet in winter is much more economical, for transportation, catering, accommodations, and sightseeing. Between November 2008 and April 29th of 2009, the Tibetan government will carry out a special touristic promotion for winter visitors. The entrance fee of the tourist attractions will be largely reduced and the service offered is as good as usual. Some of the attractions will even reduce their prices by fifty percent, which is the best bargain you can get for the season.

Amine Rahal is a Travel Expert working for Absolute China Tours ltd, a CNTA-approved China Travel Agency. Find more travel information about Chinese cities in our China Travel Guide. Also, you can find more travel tips about Tibet in our Tibet Travel Guide.

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According to Tibetan people, summer is the golden season to travel in a year. Recently, it is getting more and more overseas tourists to go to Tibet. They are not only craving for gorgeous sights and trek, but also searching for diverse culture tours. Tibet’s culture is visually stunning as its landscape, its Buddhist heritage, and its tradition and history rich. It is better to know the culture of Tibet in the face of the current pace of change.

You can see foreign tourists everywhere in Potala Palace, Jokhang Temple and the Tashihungpo Monastery of Rikaze, etc. An American tourist Cathy, excited talking about her 5-day trip to Tibet, she said:” Tibet is the most mysterious place deep down in my heart as always. The natural environment and culture are unique on the planet. I was looking forward to visiting Tibet, but I was a bit worried about the security state in Tibet before. However, you won’t know until you are there. I went search engine and found out visit tibet travel and tours, after further enquiries they made a route out based on my interests. Thanks to them, a decent Tibet tour guide gives me amazing experiences.”

The assistant director of the Tibet Tourism Bureau Wei Min quoted: “Tourism of Tibet has once strongly impaired by the March 14th riots in Lhasa, but from the related statistics both the tourist arrivals and revenue between January and May in 2009 are higher than that in the same period of 2008. We are confident that Tibet’s tourism market is recovering from slack seasons last year.” “As far as I know, China has invested great amounts of money in ecological preservation for sustainable development, by the help of that we’ll see tourists pouring this year.” The general manager of VisitTibet.com said.

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