Mystical, magical, incomprehensible Tibet offers an overload on the senses: the gaspingly thin air; the overwhelming beauty of the world’s highest mountains; the haunting images of Buddhas, deities......
For my latest trip in August 2006, I entered Tibet from Nepal to go all the 1.000km to Lhasa by Jeep. The typical route went from Kathmandu to the bordertown Kodari with getting stopped by the Maoists...
In 1991 I visited Tibet as part of a trip to Mongolia and Tibet with Tibetan Buddhism as ''red thread''. After visiting the Tibetan monasteries in Erdene Zuu in Mongolia and Labrang in the Gansu...
About travelling Tibet...
The time I was in Tibet was one of the most memorable during my Asiatrip.
After flying in from Chengdu, I spent 2 great weeks in and around Lhasa, astonished by the...
T I B E T, also called Tibet Autonomous Region or TAR, lies in the southwestern part of China and takes up about one eighth of China. It is the highest region in the world.
Tibet is gifted with...