Tibet: Which area to go to? I often receive emails from people asking which area of Tibet they should travel to. This is a difficult question to answer since in my opinion, all regions of the Tibetan Plateau are amazing. In this post, I will list some of my favorite…

Guidebooks for Tibet There are many good guidebooks on Tibet. If you plan on being in in Lhasa and theTibet Autonomous Region (TAR), Lonely Planet’s Tibet guidebook is the best option. It is well written, easy to understand and has the most reliable information for this area of Tibet. In addition to…

In Tibet Highland Tour’s continued effort to let potential Tibet travelers know the situation on travel permits throughout the 2013 travel season, we have a quick update pertaining to travel permits in the first part of this year Starting April 1st, 2013 we will start booking tours and issuing permits…

Though we are all busy here planning lots and lots of tours on the Tibetan plateau, we wanted to take a moment and wish all of our past and future customers a very Merry Christmas!

Best time to visit Tibet One of the most common questions I am asked is when is the best time to visit Tibet? Well, that is a bit difficult to answer because there are pro’s and con’s to each season. What I will do is take each season and list…

Original Article from: kekexili.typepad.com Yading Nature Reserve The Yading Nature Reserve is found in western Sichuan’s Ganzi Tibet Autonomous Prefecture དཀར་མཛེས་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་ in the traditional Tibetan region of Kham ཁམས་. Ganzi, known in Tibetan as Garnze དཀར་མཛེས་, is divided into 18 counties covering an area of 151,000 square kilometers (58,300 square miles). Yading…

There are several pivotal events in the Buddha’s life that Buddhists celebrate, including his birth, his enlightenment, his first sermon, and his death and release into nirvana. Saga Dawa means ‘fourth month’, and it is on the 15th day of this month on the Tibetan calendar that Tibetan and Nepalese…

Lonely Planet Latest Edition 2011  Page 74  (Mila Rapper but Not Milarepa ) Mc Tenzin  ,The first Tibetan Hiphop has been released in Tibet  in 2010 at Tibetan new year. Mc Tenzin’s Music is all about Buddhism and influence of Rapping skills like Eminem and story teller like Tupac  the Makaveli and…

Tsewang Lhamo , my guide has been indispensable during stay here. I have learned much from her while visiting the various temples and historic sites. She has a very good grasp and Tibetan history and Buddhism and she is very forth caring with the information. Beside has vast knowledge she…