lhasa News

One World Trekking, a leading U.S.-based tour operator to the kingdoms of the Himalayas for 23 years, has announced discounts of three of their most epic Himalayan adventure tours.

Colorful ethnic cultural activities of this year’s Shoton Festival made the Lhasa tourism boomed in the past seven days.

In order to make travelers better adapt to the plateau climate and environment and enjoy more world-class attractions, the Nyingchi of Tibet is building a new tour route – “Travelling from the Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon to the Potala Palace”.

China Eastern Airlines built Sichuan Branch to transport more passengers between Eastern and Western China

The trend in Tibetan tourism development is good in the first quarter of this year and the total revenue reaches more than 168 million RMB.

Starting from 2010, cultural department of the Tibet Autonomous Region focuses on the intangible cultural heritage protection project.

Vancouver-based China travel specialist Laurus Travel is re-launching its popular China and Tibet tour package highlighting the overnight train ride from Xining to Lhasa.

The final travelogue in a two part series by a traveler who got caught up in the middle of the Second Tibetan uprising

Dalai Lama's gentle friend, 82, dies from injuries; wife was driving and pickup littered with empty beer cans slammed into them; was major figure in creating Tibetan Government in Exile, and in publishing, scholarship, teaching Tibetan philosophy

Since July 2006 after the opening route of the Qingzang Railway between Golmud to Lhasa in Tibet, the Peruvian Orient Express is not the highest passenger train in the world anymore.