When you step off the plane in Lhasa and they welcome you with a white silk katak, don’t say 谢谢 (sye-sye)—Mandarin for “thank you.” Use the Tibetan phrase ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ། (tuchi che) instead. The map ...
BEIJING (Reuters) - China has closed Tibet to foreigners ahead of the 90th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party on July 1, travel agents said on Thursday of a restive region where many ethnic ...
Experience two of China’s most remote and challenging flights as I travel from Tibet to Xinjiang in the wild West. Starting ...
Tibetan areas that were closed to foreign travelers following last year’s anti-government protests will be re-opened on April 5. Previously, visitors had been allowed into the country in controlled ...
Join me on two of China’s most remote flights, traveling from Tibet to Xinjiang. Starting in Lhasa, I boarded a Tibet ...
The Nepali and Chinese sides of the Everest region were closed to tourism on Wednesday due to heavy snow brought by cyclone ...
The Nepal and Chinese sides of Everest region were closed to tourism on Wednesday due to unseasonally heavy snow, and a ...