Flights to Lhasa
Flights to Chamdo
Accommodations
Telephone Services
Money
Visiting Monasteries
Travel Permit and Military Permit
1.Chengdu-Lhasa: at least 2 or 3 flights (two hours) per day;
2. Kunming-Lhasa no direct flights from early November to April of next year, 1 or 2 flights per week May-October;
3.Xining-Lhasa: no direct flights from early November to April next year, 1 flight per day between Xining and Lhasa, May-October;
4. Lhasa-Kathmandu (55 minutes), on Tuesday and Saturday;
5.Chongqing-Lhasa (2 hours), on Wednesday and Sunday;
6. Beijing-Lhasa (four hours), daily May to October, no theft, November to April of next year.
7. Xi’an, Lhasa: (duration: two hours and 40 minutes) per day from May to October, no theft, November to April of next year.
The cards are available in Lhasa, in the offices of airlines of China, Chengdu, Beijing, Kathmandu, Chongqing, Xi’an, Xining, and Hong Kong, but first you must have an input in Tibet is Tibet, your travel is for you, so that it is easier to communicate with your travel agent.
China Airlines has connections to the airport, near Chengdu Bangda Chamdo Tuesday and Friday (1 hour 10 minutes) because of the altitude of the airport Bangda, flights to be canceled, and we must sometimes unstable. It has also usually very difficult to tickets.
All cities offer the entire range of luxury accommodation (five-star hotels, four star, three stars, two stars, a star in hotels and boarding-house). Tibet, the four-star hotel as Lhasa and Tibet Hotel (new building) in the high-end. Besides the big cities (Tsedang Lhasa, Shigatse, Gyantse and did), be prepared to sleep or just houses that are very different and often dirty. Therefore, it is better to take sleeping bags, in order to stay in simple guesthouses. Or you can use a box if you wish. The camp is much better. Stay simple in small guesthouses conditions, your own toilet paper and disinfectant. Click here for more information about the hotels in Tibet.
The main hotels in Lhasa and Shigatse Tsedang have telephone connections in the cities (in hotels), you can send and receive fax internationally. In Lhasa, Shigatse in Tsedang in and came to travelers based on intellectual property have to be purchased, Tibet tour is much less expensive to IP card in the hotel. In many smaller towns, DDD can also be called andreceived place. The passengers can also use their own mobile phone in Lhasa.
Tibet International Callsign 86
The currency is the yuan or renminbi (RMB), in the vernacular known as “kuai” 1Yuan = 10 Jiao, 1 Jiao = 10 Fen. The exchange rate is approximately U.S. $ 1 = 8 Yuan.
Big names of the currency changed slightly in the large cities. Tibet, the man can not change money in hotels in Lhasa, Tibet hotels, and the Bank of China, Bank of China has branches in Lhasa, Shigatse and Tsedang, travelers checks and credit cards can be used in the Bank of China to Lhasa, sometimes in the hotel in Lhasa and Tibet Hotel. Do not forget plenty of RMB for the units on the spot or long walks. Tip for the driver and the tour guide can also be in cash (U.S. Dollar, Euro, etc.).
Tibet tours, foreign travelers have not only a Chinese visa, but a trip is in one of Lhasa, Chengdu, Kunming, Beijing, Xi’an and Xining. This means that a Chinese visa is not sufficient to Tibet and trips Tower of foreigners is not allowed in Tibet, in some places, but travelers must also be in the army. Chinese visas are generally from most Chinese embassies and consulates.
To this license, it is necessary to their preferences through a journey in good faith, through the provision of information on the full name, gender, nationality, date of birth, occupation and passport number. Note that for the flights to Tibet travel without driving.
The clarified and all objectives of the city you want to visit and can not be changed once they arrived in Tibet, then you do not exactly remember all the possible places in the application and the route to follow.
Most monasteries, welcome to foreign guests, and in remote areas is often a place to stay for the night. Keep them in good faith for the title: Always circumambulategompas and other religious objects clockwise, so for the maintenance of the shrines and chörten on the right side.
Not to touch or remove anything on an altar.
Do not take the flags of prayers and stones manner.
Do not take photos at a meeting of prayer. In other cases, always ask for permission, a
Photo, especially with a flash. The largest monasteries of the cost of photography, although some monks will give you an insight for free. If none of the anger, do not know what pressure is low May.
Not in shorts and short skirts in a monastery.
Take your hat, if you are in a chapel.
Do not smoke in a monastery
