It's always been my dream to travel across China and discover all the wonders of this secular cultural and heritage. That is why, a couple of weeks ago I started to plan what suppose to my life time experience in China.

I would not have all the time of the world, as I only have a little longer than twp weeks to fly all the way from Brazil and then back, what would take, only fl

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Sun Bathing for the Buddha Tanga

Date: 2011-3-10 22:45:00 by suenwinghang Tags: Tibet

Sun Bathing for Buddha Tanga is held at  "Jet Pong Temple"  in Tibet on 20 /Auguster , 2009

12 / August - 2 September  / 2009 Eager to start my trip from Shenzhen to Xining then by train to Tibet - from Xining to Tibet took me 26 hours - and have bought the train ticket in Xining

First of all - lets tell somehting about Xining which is the transit point

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Tibet Travel Story

Date: 2009-3-30 9:49:00 by clare Tags: Tibet

Day 1
On 22 July 2008, we left Beijing in the evening, and we took the train to Lhasa. China Highlights arranged our train tickets and our permit for Tibet, which they had dropped off at our hostel in Beijing the day before we left. They even called the hostel to inform them that they would drop it off! So nothing could go wrong, we took a taxi and we arrived on Beijing West Train Statio

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Ngari, West Tibet, by Tom Carter

Date: 2008-9-18 22:36:00 by chinatravel Tags: Tibet

My path to purification began in the home of Shiva the Destroyer – or perhaps it was just his rubbish bin. The shantytown of Darchen at the foot of Mt Kailash in western Tibet is populated with half-naked, red-cheeked children playing in trash heaps. Teahouses running on car battery power, with dirt floors lined with old pillows, serve as bedding for road-weary pilgrims and backpackers be

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My Tibet Experience

Date: 2008-4-24 22:54:00 by Erica Tags: Tibet Travel

We were flying Air China from Beijing to Lhasa. The journey involved a stopover The journey lasted 5 hours involving a stopover ?Tibet was hard to access but this situation has been changed since the opening of the Qinghai-Tibet highland track. Now train service has conveniently linked this geographically isolated region with other part of China. Failure in obtaining train tickets had mad

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