Tibet is fairly complete types of wastelands and the use of touch: the arable land, garden land, forests, grasslands, urban areas and minerals, communications by land, water and area.

As one of the largest forest area in China keeps Tibet intact forest to total forest area of 126,583 kilometers square. The accumulation of forest stands at 2.08 billion cubic meters, second in land and forest land is 9.8%.

Tibet has abundant mineral resources, 94 minerals have been discovered, 30 and 11 reserves, proven reserves of minerals such as chromium, iron, lithium, copper and boron first to fifth place in China.
Tibet is rich in water resources, total water resources amount to 448.2 billion cubic meters, and groundwater level at 110.7 billion cubic meters.

Tibet is the economy based on agriculture and livestock well-developed secondary and the tertiary industry has developed vigorously. Five consistent economic pillar industries as forestry, are mineral products, construction and building materials, livestock products and processed agricultural and tourism industries as ethnic taken initial steps to form an industrial model of local characteristics.

Tibet’s tourism resources are unique, with 25 famous buildings, 13 historic sites in the state protection key units and 12 regional-level relics protection. The Potala Palace is one of the most famous buildings and historical sites. In April and October of each year, are old buildings next to modern buildings from wind, wind, hot sun, blue sky, white clouds move, poplar, willow, kisses, green meadows, peaks snowy mountains of snow, the Chinese have many covered and foreign tourists.

China’s Tibet in the roof of the world, were seen by many as a mysterious place. Who travel to Tibet, will be opened personally feel this is the veil of mystery story, after the veil to see the charming style.

Tibet is located in China’s southwest border area, the equivalent of more than 120 million square kilometers, Germany, Spain and France and the three-nation. 2.32 million population, mainly of Tibetan population. Tibet Autonomous Region average altitude above 4,000 meters profession, is the world’s largest and highest plateau, and the Arctic, Antarctic, and referred to as the “tri-polar Earth.” Tibet’s unique geographical environment created a unique scenery of snow-covered, and the age-old traditional culture and Tibetan Buddhism has developed its own unique cultural system, all this great mystery of Tibet and the temptation of power, constitutes a rich and colorful tourism in Tibet landscape.

Stands on the border of Mount Everest in Nepal, altitude 8848 meters wide, for the Earth’s highest peak, is the world’s mountain tourism resort. Peaks above 5000 meters in Tibet, the snowy years, glaciers may fly. China river here, the Asian famous Ganges, Indus, Mekong, Irrawaddy River, etc., are the source here. Lakes over the size of more than 1500 lakes Chol, the water clear as a mirror. This is one of China’s largest forest, rare birds and animals and many are not yet opened up the virgin land of eco-tourism. tibet1

Tibet has a long history, far in the 4000 to 20000 years ago, there is the human habitat. The Tibetan capital of Lhasa, is a 1300 years of history with the text of the city to retain a number of representatives of the essence of Tibetan culture’s historical and cultural treasures. Lhasa’s Potala Palace, is the world’s highest, largest and most complete preservation of the ancient palace buildings. Intrauterine huge murals, sculptures, Buddhist books and other historical relics of ancient Tibetan symbol of civilization and culture. Lhasa, there are the famous three major Tibetan Buddhism, Drepung Monastery, salad Temple, Ganden Monastery. Whenever the religious festivals, the temple ceremonies were held in a grand event. Roaming in such a strong atmosphere of Tibetan culture, religion, and memorable.

Lingka like a green jewel set in the Lhasa River. The garden was beautiful elegant past the Dalai Lama’s summer palace, built in the 18th century during the middle of the tenth Dalai Lama is a pilgrimage, leisure, ornamental architectural study of the excellent Tibetan places. Balangjie the tourists will go shopping at. The streets filled with stalls of the traditional Tibetan handicrafts, silver, but also from the Mainland and foreign goods. Shigatse is the center of politics and religion after possession, the previous Panchens to the residence. Shannan, Zetang and Valley is the birthplace of the Tibetan people is a state-level scenic spots. Tibet Linzhi, beautiful natural scenery, flora and fauna is rich in resources.

Nagqu northern grasslands, the unique geographical environment, grassland and varied scenery, mysterious snow-capped mountains. Ali, known as the roof of the world’s roof, and Kamiyama,such as a land of pilgrims.

Fascinated the tourists, as well as customs of the snow-covered plateau. Haofang character Tibetan people, both singing and dancing, known as the “dance of the Ocean” is called, there are many features of traditional entertainment, such as wrestling, throwing, tug-of-war, horse racing, archery and so on. There are a large number of national holidays, if it coincides with holiday travelers, and the Tibetans will be invited to dance with song, drink a toast. Visitors can also visit the Tibetan family, the Tibetan people to experience the unique and interesting way of life.

The early 80s, Tibet open to the peoples of the world closed the door to long-term overseas visitors to come to chow-chow, only from 1980 to 1992 13 years, to Tibet’s tourism, mountaineering, adventure tourists from abroad as many as 17 million.

In the China National Tourism Administration, the United Nations Development Program, the World Tourism Organization with the help of the tourism sector in Tibet advocacy and design in various forms of tourism projects, with the exception of tourism, cultural tourism, there are mountain tourism, adventure tours rivers; skiing, cars, bicycles, hot air balloon, walking, horse riding, boating tourism; hunting, fishing, tourism; such as spa and sunbathing.

Now, Tibet has a foreign-related tourism hotel, guest house 78, room 1329, of which seven star-rated hotels. International Group Holidays in Lhasa with the local joint venture to build a three-star Holiday Inn hotel in Lhasa. There are three-star hotel in Tibet Hotel, Shigatse Hotel; Gyangze hotels, Zetang Hotel is two stars; one-star hotel with solar, the Himalayan Hotel. If visitors are interested in, it will be living in Tibetan houses or Tibetan tents.

Tibet open to tourists in general the hotel provides a variety of flavors and delicious meals, many restaurants with restaurant, the hotel can be used to bake a special Tibetan-style dishes. Buffet in the hotel is a popular sport. Lhasa and Shigatse tour there are many restaurants, food-rich, reasonably priced.

Due to special geographical conditions of Tibet is the only access to the provinces, autonomous regions, train, Tibet is the major mode of transport for motor vehicles and aircraft. At present, Tibet has four major highways, that is, the Sichuan-Tibet Highway, the Qinghai-Tibet Highway, Xinjiang-Tibet Highway, Yunnan-Tibet Highway, the visitors from Sichuan, Qinghai, Xinjiang and Yunnan to Tibet by car. China and Nepal and also (China to Nepal) Highway. Which the Qinghai-Tibet Highway and the China-Nepal Highway overseas tourists in Tibet is the main route.

Gongga Airport expansion project was completed in 1993, including the Boeing 747 can take off and land, including large passenger and cargo aircraft. In 1994, the world’s highest airport Bangda airport project completed on schedule. Tibet now international and domestic routes, tourists can fly from Beijing, Chengdu, Chongqing, Lhasa direct, through international routes can also arrive in Lhasa from Kathmandu, Nepal. May 1995, in Lhasa with the realization of civil aviation ticket booking national civil aviation system in the possession of the passengers can purchase in Lhasa from Chengdu to the one-way across the country of origin, the way and return tickets.

High topography in Tibet, the climate than the cold temperature difference between day and night, but as a result of long hours of sunshine in winter is not very cold temperatures southern Tibet, the average annual 8 ℃; northern temperature below 0 ℃ annual average; Lhasa is located in the middle of winter without cold, summer heat. March to October, is to have possession of the best tourist season.

tibet tour introduction
Tibet (Xizang), the roof of the world, is unknown in the world until the beginning of the 20th Century. The massif, the land of snow has a good draw for travelers and adventurers from. Its majestic scenery, mysterious and exotic religious culture and wonderful people, reward every visitor with an indelible memory for a life! Tibet (Tibet Autonomous Region, TAR, abbreviated) borders Xinjiang, Qinghai, Sichuan and Yunnan internally while India, Myanmar, Bhutan, Sikkim that Nepal and its external borders. It covers a wide range of 1220000 square kilometers (470,920 square miles), representing approximately 12.8% from China. With a height of 4000 meters above sea level, Tibet is that it is one of the highest mountains in the world. The Himalayas in the south, the Karakoram in the west and the north Kunlun, the dream of all the land of adventurers and mountaineers. The large site is also the birthplace of several major rivers like the Yangtze River, Yellow River, Nu River (Salween), Lancang River (Mekong), the Yarlong Tsangpo (Brahmaputra), Indus and Ganges. Tibet also offers beautiful landscapes lakes and valleys. More than 1500 lakes with Lake Namtso heavenly and the sacred lake of Tibet Manasarova you plateau with many lakes. No watering and maintenance of rivers and lakes, the surrounding areas can not thrive. The long history of religious and exotic Allure more and more tourists each year. The Tibetan Buddhism resides the majority of Tibetans at heart. Therefore, there are many beautiful monasteries, wall paintings and sculptures, vivid and solemn stupas were used for the cult of the Buddha never before. Lhasa and Shigatse, the most important cities of Tibet, the majority of religious monuments, especially the Potala Palace, Jokhang Temple, Drepung Monastery, Sera Monastery, Ramoche the convent, Tashilunpo the convent and Sakya Monastery. Besides the monasteries, sacred mountains and holy lakes are excellent places to the people of Tibet, the devotion to the Buddha. Western Tibet, Ngari is a vast arid plateau and acts as an umbrella for Tibet. As the city of Saint-Lake (Lake Manasarova) binds to the holy mountain (Mt.Kailash), Ngari is a holy pilgrimage site of Tibetans and Hindus, as well as a popular challenge for hikers. The ancient Shang Shunga Guge UK practice and a train. As the weather is rough so few people live in this region. Therefore, Ngari is also the home of wild yak, the Tibetan antelope, wild donkeys, rare, and many other wild animals. Tibet, five mountains on the altitude of 8000 meters (26,240 feet) and a large number of mountains beyond a height of 7000 m (22,960 feet). Therefore, the southwest of Tibet has become a popular destination for climbers. Mt Everest dominates the region. More than 40 peaks are for the lovers of the mountains. Every year thousands of adventurers and mountaineers come to Tibet to the nature and Tibet itself is also the southern part of the jungle, the rivers, and a relatively mild climate. tourismYarlong Tsangpo Canyon, the largest canyon in the world, is home to rare plants and animals, and remains of another person, the local population. Tibetans are hospitality. The tourists may be the families and from the experiences of the daily life of Tibetans. Holidays and vacations are the most important days in Tibet. Enjoy the local cuisine and dancing with beautiful Tibetan girls are excellent ways to celebrate these moments of joy. Buy typical of the craft on the Barkhor Street faith and other providers in May in the happiness of his visit. White with snow capped mountains, green forests, clean and quiet rivers, lakes, the pilgrims, the progress of their devotion worship by falling under the sky and along roads, the people humble and modest. Tibet, the lost paradise in the sky, is a place where the spirit of life! The now famous railways in Tibet, was officially the end of October for the operation from July 1, 2006. This miracle of technology, Tibet, the mysterious and beautiful Holy Land of a thousand-year history of numerous changes made to prosperity. After the opening of the Tibet Railway, 3000 – 4000 visitors are expected to travel in Tibet, every day. It is envisaged that the railway will increase the tourism in the province of Qinghai and the Tibet Autonomous Region, wealth in the western part of China, which have not been to all the benefits that the tourism industry. The new rail link for the traveler on a practical, more comfortable, safer and more economical to go to Tibet. Conversely, the railway to the pressure on the expenditure of the passengers during the season. Tibet railway offers tourists the opportunity to reflect on the beautiful landscape that is unique to the “Roof of the World.” By opening the connection between Qinghai and Lhasa, the railway will not only give foreigners the opportunity to visit Tibet, but also the transportation of goods for the economic benefit of the Tibetan people as a whole. Miraculous railway connects almost in Tibet and China’s distance, with the acceleration of economic development. Tibet railway, not only to a change in the mystique from the world for Tibet, but also a better understanding of the Tibetan people by the world. There is a strong belief that Tibet wants a better future with this sacred broadly welcomed here road.Click Tibet Travel Guide

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The prime provinces which fall under the geographical expanse of Tibet include Amdo, Kham and U-Tsang. The map of Tibet provides information about the physiography of the country. Forest and hilly areas, tourist places and politically sensitive zones are also marked in the Tibet map.

Animal husbandry and agriculture are the two prime economic activities of Tibet. Tibetan rugs made of pure wool of the country are exported to various countries of the world and have a huge demand in the national markets too. Fourteenth Dalai Lama is the temporal head of Tibet who helps the people of the country to secure a democratic regime.

King Songtsen GampoThe General History of Tibet begins with the Songtsän Gampe (604-50 EC) united the parties for the valley of the Yarlung River and founded the Tibetan kingdom. It also has many reforms and Tibetan can quickly create a large and mighty empire. 640 he married Princess Wencheng, the niece of the powerful Chinese emperor of the Tang Emperor Taizong, China.

In the next king after songs Gampe Buddhism is the religion of the Tibetan government and the energy increased in wide areas in Central Asia as a significant progress has been made in China, also reached the capital of the Tang Chang’an (modern Xi ‘an) on End 763rd [12] The troops occupying Tibet Chang’an lasted nearly two weeks after being beaten by Tang and his ally, the Ottoman Empire uyghur Khaganate.

Nanzhao (in Yunnan and neighboring regions) remained under the control of Tibet from 750 to 794, when he became the Tibetan ruler and allowed China imposed a severe defeat for the Tibetans. [13]

In the year 747, the hold of Tibet was loosened campaign Gao Xianzhi rule that tried to re-direct communications between Central Asia and Kashmir. At 750 Tibetans have almost all their possessions in Central Asia to China. But Gao Xianzhi after the defeat of the Arabs and Qarluqs at the Battle of Talas (751), Chinese influence decreased rapidly and Tibetan influence again. 821/822 EC in Tibet and China have a remarkable peace treaty. Double counting of this contract, including details about the borders between the two countries are on the wall to the outside of the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa. [14] Tibet continued as a Central Asian empire until the middle of the 9th Century.

13, 14 and 15 years
At the end of the year 1230, the Mongols had their attention to Tibet. At that time, the Mongol armies had already in the north of China, a large part of Central Asia and to the extent such as Russia and Ukraine today. Tibetan nobility, however, was fragmented and mainly with the internal struggles. Goden, a brother of Güyük in the country 1240th A second invasion of the submission of almost all Tibetan. 1244, convened Goden the Sakya Pandita to his court, which in 1247 and named viceroy Sakya Mongolia Central Tibet, that the eastern provinces of Kham and Amdo remained Mongolian nationals live. [15] When Kublai Khan founded the Yuan Dynasty in 1271, Tibet is a part of the Yuan Dynasty.

     
Tibet 820 in combination with the other sectors
Kublai KhanBetween 1346 and 1354, the end of the Yuan Dynasty, which Pagmodru myriarch, Tai Situ Changchub Gyaltsen (1302-1364), the Sakya. The following 80 years were a period of relative stability. We also have after the birth of the Gélug School (also known as the Yellow Hats) by the followers of Tsongkhapa Lobsang Dragpa, and the founding of the great Ganden, Drepung and Sera, near monasteries in Lhasa. After 1430, the country was entering a new period of internal struggles for power [16].

16. and 17 Century
During 1578, Altan Khan of the Mongols Tümed guests Sonam Gyatso, a great lama, the Gélug school. They met near Khokhar Nuur, Altan Khan, who first called Sonam Gyatso, the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan-Mongolian Dalai Gyatso is the translation of the name, or “ocean” [17].

The first Europeans to be found in Tibet were Portuguese missionaries in 1624 and by King and Queen of Guge and some Tibetan village in western Tibet. You have permission to a church and the introduction of the Christian faith. The Guge king has Christianity as a compensation for diluting the influence of religion in the Gélug supported and their potential rivals and strengthen his own position. All missionaries were expelled at the insistence of the Lama the 1745th [18] [19] [20] [21]

In the years 1630, Tibet, implicated in the struggle for power between the increase in Manchu and Mongolian Oirad and various political groups. Ligden Khan, the Mongol tribes Chakhar the withdrawal de las Fuerzas Manchu, the Yellow Hat propone destruir Gélug escolar en el Tibet, pero en el camino de cerca Murió Kokonor, 1634. [22] The vassal Tsogt Taiji that the fighting, but was defeated and killed by Khoshud Gush Khan 1637, in turn, is the Overlord to Tibet and has established itself as a “protector of the Yellow Church” [23]. Gush on the fifth Dalai Lama, saying that the highest political and spiritual in Tibet and the destruction of potential rivals.

Century 18
     
Kingdom of Tibet ( “Kingdom of Tibet”) to a 1734 by Jean Baptiste Bourguignon of Anville on the basis of the former Jesuit College mapsIn 1705, Lobzang Khan, Khoshud used the 6th Dalai Lama, the rejection of the role of the monk (but the owner has not rejected his political role as Dalai Lama) as an excuse to maintain control over Tibet. The regent was murdered, and the Dalai Lama in Beijing. He died on the street, also near Kokonor, apparently from the disease. Lobzang Khan has a new Dalai Lama, but not from school Gélug.

Rival reincarnation was in the region Kokonor. The Dzungar invaded Tibet in 1717 removed, killed and make a claim to the position of Dalai Lama (which was only Lhabzang), which together with a broad approval. But soon Dzungar plunder the holy sites in Lhasa, the fast response of the Emperor Kangxi 1718, but his military expedition was destroyed by the Dzungar in the vicinity of Lhasa. [24] [25]

Emperor Kangxi Dzungar finally expulsion from Tibet in 1720 and the troops were welcomed as liberators. They have with them Kelzang Gyatso Kumbum in Lhasa has been installed and the Seventh Dalai Lama, 1721, not a province of Tibet, he succeeded in expanding its own officials and legal and administrative systems as well as the taxes are not levied. [24] [26] of the Manchu Qing Amdo under their control in the year 1724, and in the east of the neighboring Chinese provinces of Kham the 1728th [27] The government of the Qing has a resident Commissioner, ie Ambani in Lhasa. 1751, Emperor Qianlong installed the Dalai Lama as a spiritual leader and political leader of Tibet, the government, namely Kashagan [28].

While the ancient relations between Tibet and China are complex, there is usually little doubt as to the subordination of Tibet in China after the Qing first decades of the 18th Century. [29] 1788 the troops of Gurkhas Bahadur Shah, the Regent of Nepal, Tibet came to a number of frontier districts. The young Panchen Lama fled Lhasa and of the Emperor Qianlong of the Qing troops in Lhasa, where the distance of Nepal has to pay a large sum per annum. In 1791, the Nepalese Gurkhas penetrated Tibet a second step use Shigatse and destroyed, plundered and lay the great Tashilhunpo monastery. The Panchen Lama was forced to flee back into Lhasa. The Emperor Qianlong then sent to an army of 17,000 men for Tibet. In 1793 with the help of Tibetan troops, they could lead the troops in Nepal, about 30 km from Kathmandu. [30]

The 18th Century brought the Jesuits and Capuchins in Europe, the progressive, has the resistance of the Tibetan lamas who finally expelled from Tibet, the 1745th But at the moment, not all Europeans were banned in the country – in 1774, a Scottish nobleman, George Bogle, came to Shigatse to investigate on trade with the British East India, the first potatoes in Tibet. [31]

Century 19
But in the 19th Century, the situation of foreigners in Tibet to questionable. The British Empire has been achieved in the north of India in the Himalayas and Afghanistan and in the realm of the Russian tsars was expanding in the southern Central Asia, and everyone can be suspected d intent in Tibet. Csoma Sándor Kőrös the Hungarian scientific spent 20 years in British India (4 years in Ladakh), trying to visit Tibet. He is the first Tibetan-English dictionary.

In the years 1850, Tibet has all foreigners from Tibet and the borders for all the people from the outside.

1865, Great Britain began secretly mapping Tibet. Inspector in India and the training of spyware disguised as pilgrims and merchants after their not in her travels through Tibet and had readings in the night.

Century 20
     
Francisco YounghusbandIn 1904 a British expedition to Tibet under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Francis Younghusband, accompanied by a strong military escort, are in Tibet and reached Lhasa. The British were partly inspired by the fear that Russia was an extension of power in Tibet, and in part by the hope that the negotiations with the Dalai Lama is better than by the representatives of the Chinese authorities. [32] But on the way to Lhasa, many Tibetan troops killed Younghusband Gyangzê who tried to stop the progress of the British.

     
Sera Monastery, Lhasa, Tibet (2006) When the order to Lhasa, the Dalai Lama fled already, Urga, Mongolia, Younghusband found, but the re-election in India empty-handed untenable. We worked with the draft treaty unilaterally, and in the Potala has been the regent, Ganden Tri Rinpoche, and other officials who have come together as an ad hoc working group of the government. The agreement was the border between Tibet and Sikkim, to be noted for the free trade between Tibet and the subjects, British and compensation to be paid at the court of the Qing, the British Government in its expenditure of the troops armies Lhasa. The provisions of this treaty of 1904 was established in 1906 an Anglo-Chinese agreement between Britain and China. The British, for a fee from the Qing Court, have also agreed “not in the annex Tibetan territory or in the administration of Tibet” while China is committed, “not to another country Foreign influence on the area or the administration in Tibet . ‘[33] [34]

The position of the Commissioner for the British trade Gyangzê was employed from 1904 to 1944. It lasted until 1937, with the creation of the post of “Chief of the British Mission in Lhasa,” a British officer had a permanent detachment Lhasa itself [35].

André Migot, French, traveled to a doctor for many months in Tibet in 1947, describes the complexity of the border between Tibet and China, and how he developed:

“As compensation for damage caused to its interests in the [1906] treaty between England and Tibet, the Chinese have gone for the expansion in the western area of direct and began with the colonization of the country round Batang. Tibetans reacted vigorously. China governor killed was on the way Chamdo and his army after a flight from Batang around several missionaries were killed, and the Chinese capital were at a point below where a special Commissioner Chao-Yu Fong appeared on the stage.
Acting with a brutality to it the nickname “The Butcher of the monks”, which is located at Batang, sacked the lamaseries, Chamdo pressed, and a number of campaigns and successful, he has his army before the gates of Lhasa, has re-order and reiterated the Chinese rule over Tibet. Sikang recommended that in 1909, a province which at Batang thirty-six as its capital. This project was not implemented later in modified form, for the Chinese revolution of 1911 was a limit switch and Chao was killed shortly after their fellow countrymen.
At the beginning of the unrest of the Republic of China, the uprising by the majority of the leaders of the inflow, a series of fights between Tibetans and Chinese, and strange events in which tragedy, comedy and (of course) all religions have a role to play. 1914, the United Kingdom, China and Tibet, met in the conference table to try to restore peace, but not the conclave broke after the conclusion of an agreement on the fundamental question of the border with China-Tibet. That since 1918, was seen as a practice, as after the course of the Upper Yangtze. Over the years, the Chinese also have many other concerns about the complaints back to Tibet. But things slow down, and quietly, in 1927, the province was in Sikang, but that is only under-six twenty-seven instead show the man, was the idea. China lost in the last ten years, the entire area that conquers butcher.
Sikang since then, has been relatively quiet, but this brief overview of the history of the province, it is easy to understand the precarious situation. Chinese control was little more than symbolic, I was often a first-hand experience of their inefficiency. To guide such an area is not enough in remote villages separated after many days of the trip, some officials and a handful of bad soldiers in rags. Tibetans ignored by the Chinese administration and followed their own bosses. A simple example is the actual situation of the Chinese leadership Sikang: Person in the province of China, the money, and the officials is in a position to buy anything with money, were forced to remain on a process of barter trade. “[36]
In 1910, the government of the Qing has a military expedition of their own Chinese which he and the Dalai Lama in an imperial edict. The Dalai Lama fled again, this time in British India in February 1910.



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