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City Guide
Cities, like the chessmen in the Chess, are the important factors for the travel, or like the pearls in your nectlace you have to tie them up in your itinerary and then you can enjoy the whole trip.
Here are the some significant cities with a brief intro-
duction. Going through them you can have general ideas of Tibet travel.
Lhasa City & Area
The Capital of Tibet and Dalai Lamas’ Seat
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Shigatse City & Area
Shigatse, the Panchen Lama's Seat.
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Shannan Prefecture
The Cradle of Tibetan Cultures & Buddhism
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Attractions
Mount Lhotse
Mount Lhotse at 8511 meters is the fourth highest mountain in the world. Its long east-west crest is located...
Lamalin Monastery
Lamalin Monastery is a Buddhist monastery located in Buchu, Nyingchi County, about 26km southeast from Bayi Town....
Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon

The 496.3-meter-long Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon has an average depth of 5,000 meters, but drops in places to 5,382 m

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-Mt. Kailash and Lake Manasarova

Mount Kailash is a peak in the Gangdise mountains which is part of the Himalayas in Tibet, the source of some of the longest rivers in Asia—the Indus River, the Sutlej River (a major tributary of the Indus River), the Brahmaputra ...

-Bri-gung Monastery

Bri-gung Monastery is a famous monastery in Tibet, well-known for performing celestial burials. It was founded in 1179 by the founder of that tradition, Drigung Kyobpa Jigten-gonpo-rinchenpel. The monastery also named Drigung Til Monastery is named after its location in a valley about 150 km east from Lhasa, in Drigung district, and is the mother...

-Lamalin Monastery

Lamalin Monastery is a Buddhist monastery located in Buchu, Nyingchi County, about 26km southeast from Bayi Town. Buchu Lamalin is the biggest and most important Buddhist temple in the Nyingchi area. Lamalin Monastery belongs to the Nyingma, meaning that their lineages go back to the first transmission of Buddhism from India to Tibet circa 750 CE. The Nyingma Sect ...

-Rongpu Monastery

Shuo Atop the Rongpu Qinzhogma Hill at the foot of Mt. Qomolangma, Rongpu monastery is 90 kilometers away from the Tingri County seat and is 5,800 meters above sea level? It is the highest monastery in the world, so the scenery is as great as you can imagine. Rongpu Monastery was originally constructed by Red Sect Lamas in1899, although it is not as old as...

-Mount Lhotse

Mount Lhotse at 8511 meters is the fourth highest mountain in the world. Its long east-west crest is located immediately south of Mount Everest in the Himalayas, and the summits of the two mountains are connected by the South Col, a vertical ridge that never drops below 8000m.Sometimes mistakenly Lhotse has been identified as the south peak of the Everest ...
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-Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon

The 496.3-meter-long Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon has an average depth of 5,000 meters, but drops in places to 5,382 meters. Since these figures came to light, world geography textbooks have had to be rewritten; Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon is the world's deepest, longest, highest and most dangerous one. In the past, the 5,133-meter-deep Grand Canyon of the Colorado ...

-Mount Lhotse

Mount Lhotse at 8511 meters is the fourth highest mountain in the world. Its long east-west crest is located immediately south of Mount Everest in the Himalayas, and the summits of the two mountains are connected by the South Col, a vertical ridge that never drops below 8000m.Sometimes mistakenly Lhotse has been identified as the south peak of the Everest ...

-Lamalin Monastery

Lamalin Monastery is a Buddhist monastery located in Buchu, Nyingchi County, about 26km southeast from Bayi Town. Buchu Lamalin is the biggest and most important Buddhist temple in the Nyingchi area. Lamalin Monastery belongs to the Nyingma, meaning that their lineages go back to the first transmission of Buddhism from India to Tibet circa 750 CE. The Nyingma Sect ...

-Bri-gung Monastery

Bri-gung Monastery is a famous monastery in Tibet, well-known for performing celestial burials. It was founded in 1179 by the founder of that tradition, Drigung Kyobpa Jigten-gonpo-rinchenpel. The monastery also named Drigung Til Monastery is named after its location in a valley about 150 km east from Lhasa, in Drigung district, and is the mother...

-Medog Nature Reserve

In the valleys of the Yarlungzangbo River's great bend, at the southeastern border of China on the Qinghai — Tibet plateau, there is a less traveled virgin land. This is the famous Medog Nature Reserve set up in 1985 and covering a total area of 62, 620 hectares, in which all ...
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-The Potala Palace

This ancient architectural complex is considered a model of Tibetan architecture. Located on the Red Hill in Lhasa, Tibet, it is 3,700 meters above sea level and covers an area of over 360,000 square meters, measuring 360 meters from east to west and 270 meters from south to north. The palace has 13 stories, and is 117 meters high. ...

-Shalu Monastery

'Shalu' means 'new bud' in Tibetan Language. According to the legend, its founding involves Chetsun and his teacher. His teacher suggested that Chetsun shoot an arrow, and found a monastery where the arrow hit. The flying arrow hit a new bud, hence the monastery’s name.Shalu Monastery is a small monastery 22km south of Shigatse in Tibet. It was founded in ...

-Jokhang Temple

The Jokhang Temple, home of the most venerated statue in Tibet.The Jokhang, also called the Qokang,Jokang, Jokhang Temple, Jokhang Monastery or Tsuklakang, is the first Buddhist temple in Tibet, located on Barkhor Square in Lhasa. It was built during the reign of king Songsten Gampo (605?-650 CE) to celebrate his marriage with Chinese Tang Dynasty princess...

-Ruins of Guge Kingdom

Located in the Ngari Region, Tibet Autonomous Region, Ruins of Guge Kingdom are the Old Summer Palace of Tibet. While these ruins were once an imperial estate which fell into disrepair after the civil revolt and the invasion of the allied armies of eight foreign countries, the Guge kingdom also encountered civil strife and foreign attacks which fragmented the once ...

-Mt. Kailash and Lake Manasarova

Mount Kailash is a peak in the Gangdise mountains which is part of the Himalayas in Tibet, the source of some of the longest rivers in Asia—the Indus River, the Sutlej River (a major tributary of the Indus River), the Brahmaputra ...
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