Lhasa

Overview

Lhasa is the capital of Tibet. Tibet is quite an exotic place to visit. You will feel like you somehow landed in an issue of National Geographic: colorful monks with prayer wheels, magnificient landscapes, great monasteries and palaces and funny smelling yaks.

Lhasa can be reached from Chengdu by plane (two daily flights) and from Beijing . From Golmud you can take a bus with a stop in Amdo. From Nepal you can fly or come by bus. You need to get the necessary permits form the Chinese embassy. For the brave: try to get here from Kashgar.

 You can now travel to Lhasa by train on the new railway from Beijing and other stops along the track including Chengdu.

History