Top Hotel Options while Traveling to Tibet by Jack

January14

As we all know it is impossible to explore Tibet in one day or two, so you better secure a nice hotel before heading to Tibet. Nowadays, as Tibet is getting more and more popular among tourists, Tibet has plenty of hotel options available for those looking to visit Tibet with a coupl days. Here are some highly recommended hotels in Lhasa, just for your consideration.

Xinding Hotel Lhasa
Hotel in Lhasa

Xinding Hotel Lhasa is located in central Lhasa, with Potala Palace, Jokhang Temple, and Tibet Museum as well as other nearby points of interest like Ramoche Temple and Norbulingka are all within walking distance of the hotel. Xinding Hotel Lhasa houses a restaurant and 132 guestrooms featuring complimentary toiletries. Wired high-speed Internet access is also available, as well as free of charge phones.

Tibet Gorkha Hotel
Hotel in Lhasa

Tibet Gorkha Hotel is located in the heart of Lhasa. Nearby points of interest include Tibet University, Jokhang Temple, and Ramoche Temple, Potala Palace and Tibet Museum – all within walking distance of the hotel. The hotel features a wide variety of hotel services, including tour assistance, currency exchange, free parking lot, dry cleaning/laundry service, one meeting/conference room, Internet point, computer station, rooftop terrace, luggage storage, train station pickup (surcharge).

Lincang Premier Hotel Lhasa
Hotel in Lhasa

Lincang Premier Hotel Lhasa is located in central Lhasa, close to Jokhang Temple, Ramoche Temple, and Potala Palace, Tibet University and Tibet Museum. Lincang Premier Hotel - Lhasa houses a restaurant. Room service is available during limited hours. This 3.5-star hotel also houses a business center and limo/town car service is available. Additional property amenities are also available, like dry cleaning/laundry services, a safe deposit box at the front desk, and tour assistance. Lincang Premier Hotel Lhasa houses 9 guestrooms featuring free of charge toiletries, wired high-speed Internet access. Moreover, the wake-up calls are also available.

Tibet Minzu Hotel Lhasa
Hotel in Lhasa

Tibet Minzu Hotel Lhasa is located in central Lhasa. Nearby points of interest also include Ramoche Temple, Sera Monastery, and Jokhang Temple, Potala Palace and Tibet University. Tibet Minzu Hotel offers a restaurant and room services available during limited hours. Recreational amenities are also available, including a sauna and a fitness facility. In addition, a business center is housed in the hotel and limo/town car service is offered as well. This hotel features 4 meeting rooms, concierge services and tour assistance, as well as currency exchange, parking lot, and a hair salon.

With these above-mentioned hotel options available, you will enjoy a pleasant stay in Tibet!

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Fairy Monastery in Tibet – Tashihunpo Monastery by Rose

January13

For China tour, someone came for the historical royal buildings – Beijing Forbidden City, someone came for widening vision through the world wonders – Beijing Great Wall groups, as well as there are numerous tourists came to China for discovering the essence of folk culture of Tibet. Today let us unveil the mask and explore the mysterious Tibet.

Layout of Tibet Tashihunpo Monastery
Tashihunpo Monastery

As one of the most famous Six Big Monasteries of Gelugpa in Tibet, Tashihunpo Monastery gets another name as the Heap of Glory. Founded by the first Dalai Lama, this monastery stored magnificent building structure and the luxurious decoration. With the large scale area nearly 300,000 square meters, this monastery has got much recognition in the tourists with dazzling scenic spots and the designed figures. Tashihunpo Monastery is the seat of the Panchen Lama since the Fourth Panchen Lama took charge in the monastery and in the modern days there are about 800 lams here.

Dazzling Attractions in Tibet Tashishunpo Monastery
Tashihunpo Monastery

Deep discovering will bring you some mysteries. First entering the Tashihunpo Monastery, you will be impressed by the grand buildings with golden roofs and white walls. The remarkable wall, you appreciated is built by the first Dalai Lama. From this wall, you could appreciate the images of Buddha in every century. The images here are presenting so humongous that you could easily see it in the Shigatse City. Most interesting is that you could find the biggest statue of a sitting Maitreya Buddha inside the chapel. Measuring 26.2 meters high, this figure was decorated with gold, copper, pearl and other precious stones.

Sparkling Wall Paintings in Tashihunpo Monastery
Apart from the grand palaces and gigantic statues, the Tashihunpo Monastery also boasted for the treasures wall paintings. Because of the variety of shapes, resplendent colors and exquisite paintings, the murals are regarded as another masterpiece of Buddhist art. Here, you could appreciate the rare sutras, thangka, china and glass services of Ming and Qing Dynasties. Through these relics, you would have a better understanding about the history and the society of Tibet!

As the most famous fairy monastery – Tashihunpo Monastery, recent years, has attracted loads of vision with unique folk local culture and the well-designed figures. Here is the ideal choice of your Tibet tour!

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Fairy City of Tibet – Shanan Region by Rose

January10

With life pace improving faster and faster, everyone wants to discover the Tibet to have an appreciation about the local religion and life culture. It is truly a nice place full of charming landscapes and unique folk culture, as well as sincere people. As the most fairy city of Tibet, Nanshan City has become a hottest holy land in the tourists from home and abroad. Today I would lead you to walk closer to it and read it.

Layout of Shannan of Tibet
Tibet

Located in the southern Tibet, Shannan was highly recommended by the tourists from the home and abroad. With the coverage area about 79.700 square kilometers, this holy land has greeted with many famous leaders. Special position decided its special climate. Enjoying a semi-dry continental plateau climate, this religion area housed four vague seasons. Each season, it will present the most dazzling scenery to offer the local people. When the rainy season falls, lovely rain will always fall in the night sweating the harvest and their animals. On the second day, after the rainy, the whole scenery will be like a girl who has had a shower, charming and bright.

Features of Shannan Region
It was praised as a miracle land housing loads of unique culture and warm-hearted people. Located in the catchment area of the Yapan River, this land was originally named at Yapan. About thousands of years ago, the first ancestors of the Tibetan people moved there. There is a legend passing through here telling that a monkey was changed into a person from here. It gathered all the first of Tibet including the first temple, first village, first king, as well as the first monastery of the high land. With southern area is higher than the north area, there distributing lofty mountains and rivers in Shannan.

Dazzling Highlights in Shannan Region
Tibet

As we all know, Shannan is the first region started in Tibet area. It also played a very important role as a cradle of the Tibet nation and culture. All the first buildings are started to build here. Apart from these, Shannan is a birth place where the Tibet Opera produced. The local festivals, garments, decorations and ornaments are all greatly affected by this essence opera. There are many similarities between the Tibet Opera and old Beijing Opera.

This region covering too much refresh features and miracles, it is waiting for your attention.

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