What to see in Lhasa


Yangpachen Hot Spring

Chinese Name: 羊八井 English Name: Yangpachen Hot Spring Tibetan...

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Norbulingka Palace in Lhasa

Norbulingka Palace is located in Lhasa City, Tibetan Autonomous Region....

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Tsurphu Monastery

Tsurphu monastery is the main monastery of Karmapa and it...

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Ganden Monastery

Ganden Namgyal Ling Monastery, the actual name for the...

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Shigatse & Gyangtse


Gyangtse Kumbum Stupa and Palcho Monastery

Chinese name: 十万佛塔& 白居寺 English Name: Pelkor Chode Monastery or Palcho Monastery Tibetan Name: རྒྱང་རྩེ་དཔལ་སྐོར་ཆོས་སྡེ།།  Location: At the northeast of Gyantse County,...

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Shalu Monastery

Around 68km from Gyangtse taking off from the main road for 5km takes you to the Shalu monastery established in...

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Sakya monastery

  Sakya or Pel Sakya monastery is located 25 kilometer away from the Sakya Bridge on the friendship highway to...

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Nojin Kangsang Glacier

Mt.Noijin Kangsang (7,206m / 23,641ft) is the closest major Himalayan peak to Lhasa, the capital of Tibet. The name of...

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Tsetang & Yarlung Valley


Dratang Monastery

Dratang Monastery Chinese Name: 扎塘寺  English Name: Dratang Monastery Tibetan Name: གྲྲ་ཐང་དགོན་པ།  Location: Located 2 km off the main road in the Dranang...

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Samye monastery

Samye monastery was the first Tibetan Buddhism monastery that constructed probably between 775 and 779, during the reign of King...

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Traduk Monastery

  Traduk temple or monastery was initially established in 641 A.D by the greatest 33rdking Songtsen Gampo in the seventh...

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Dorje Drak Monastery

Dorje Drak was founded by the 1st Rigdzin Godemchen Ngodrub Gyaltsen (1337-1409) and Dorje Drak is regarded as one of the...

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Ali & western Tibet


Manasarovar Lake

The Manasarovar Lake locates in western part of Tibet around 1000 kilometers away from Lhasa, the holy lake lies above 4500 meters...

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Tholing Monastery

Chinese Name: 托林寺 English Name: Tholing Monastery Tibetan Name:མཐོ་ལྡིང་དགོན་པ།། Location: Few minutes walk from Zhada town, Ngari Region of Western Tibet Opening hours: All-day...

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Zanda Earth Forest

Chinese Name: 札达地质森林  English Name: Zanda Earth Forest  Location:  Zanda County, Ali Prefecture  Opening hours: All-day  National Geological Park Zanda Earth Forest is located...

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Rutog Rock Painting

Rutog Rock Painting Chinese Name:日土岩画  English Name: Rutog Rock Paintings  Location: Located in Rutog County, Ngari Plateau, Tibet Autonomous Region, China  Opening...

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Nyintri & Eastern Tibet


2500 year old Cypress tree

The 2500 year old Cypress tree situates in Lingzhi or Nyingchi attracts numerous travelers all around the world, which situates...

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Midui Glacier-Tibet

Chinese Name:米堆冰川 English Name: Midui Glacier  Location: Midui Village, Bome County, Nyingchi Opening Hours: All-day  Midui Glacier is regarded as one of the most...

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Basum Tso Lake

The stunning alpine lake called Draksum Tso (Tibetan name for the lake) locates on an altitude of 3,700meters above sea...

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Lamaling

Lamaling monastery initially located on the ridge of a low-lying hill (called Norbu Ri) once destroyed in a natural disaster...

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Nakchu & northern Tibet


Siling Lake ( Siling Tso)

Chinese Name: 色林错湖  English Name: Siling Tso Lake  Location: Located in Xainza County, Nagqu Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region   Opening Hours: All-day  Siling Tso- The...

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Sok Tsanden Monastery

Sok Tsanden Monastery is located on top of the Yaladuo Hill at Sok Yaklha Town, in the Nagqu area of north...

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Namtso Lake

Namtso lake is known as one of the holiest lake called Heavenly Lake in Tibetan along with Manasarovar, Yamdrok and...

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Kham Region


Dzongsar Monastery

Dzongsar monastery is located in the southeast town of Derge county in the Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan, China.  The...

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Katok Monastery

Katok monastery also transliterated as Kathok or Kathog Monastery is one of the six principal monasteries of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism....

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Longtang Dolma Lhakhang

Longtang Dolma Lhakhang is located in the north of Kham Dege, a place known as Denma which is located in the...

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Palyul Monastery

The Palyul monastery is also known as Playul Namgyal Jangchup Choling Monastery and its one of the six main monasteries of...

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Amdo Region


Labrang Monlam Chenmo

Tibet has a large number of monasteries of different size and sect due to the huge follower of the Buddhism....

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Kumbum Monastery

The Kumbum monastery is located in Qinghai Province which is 25km away from the Xining, the capital of Qinghai Province. It is...

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Kokonor lake

Kokonor Lake is Mongolian name and Tso Ngon Po in Tibetan literally means Blue lake, and it gives Tso Ngon(Qinghai) as...

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Amdo Labrang

Labrang Tashi Kyil Monastery

Labrang monastery is located in Xiahe County in Gansu province, in the traditional Tibetan area of Amdo. It is currently the largest monastery on the...

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