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Mapping the Tibetan
World: TAR, Western China, Northern India, Bhutan, and Nepal
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Reprint edition Fall 2004
ISBN: 0970171609
LCCN: 00191717
Prices: US$23.95, UK£17.95, JP¥2,000 (¥2,100)
Size: A5
Pages: 424
Maps: 280+
Photos: 21 (Color)+262 (B & W)
Illustrations: 32
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Budget Guidebook to the
Tibetan World
This extraordinary new budget guide to the Tibetan world comes
with over 280 tried and tested maps covering the entire region.
These will take you on a tour of the Jokhang or the Potala Palace
in the sacred city of Lhasa or travel with you as you tackle the
ultimate pilgrimage to sacred Mt. Kailash, source of Asia's great
rivers. To get a feel of ancient Tibetan culture outside of Tibet,
why not journey to the isolated "Dragon Kingdom" of Bhutan or
trek to Everest base camp in the Nepalese Himalayas. The Tibetan
way of life is also alive and well in the Indian towns of Leh,
Dharamsala, Darjeeling, and Gangtok and this book takes you to
them all.
- Get off the beaten track: With over 280 highly detailed,
tried and tested maps.
- Get there & get around: Hundreds of pages of travel
information. Plus gateway cities: New Delhi, Calcutta, Chengdu,
Kunming, Kathmandu & Pokhara.
- Keep to your budget: Hotel tariffs, tour & trekking
costs, permit & visa charges.
- Pack everything in: Cultural, historical and religious
explanations, festival dates, sights & more...
"Indispensable for the serious traveler who wishes to understand
the extent and diversity of the Tibetan World." Tony Williams,
Travel Officer, Australia Tibet Council.
"This guidebook is a perfect travel companion for anyone
journeying in the Tibetosphere." Nepali Times.
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| Contents Summary |
| TRAVEL IN TIBET
Roads to Tibet/Borders/Visas/Visa Extensions/Permits to Enter
Tibet/Alien Travel Permit/Closed Areas
Making Arrangements/Changing Money & Exchange Rates/Budgets/Guesthouses/Transport/Hitchhiking
What to Bring/Altitude Sickness/Dogs & Rabies/Vaccinations/Hospitals/Language/Post
& Telecommunications/Safety in Tibet/Illegal Matters/Customs
& Taboos |
| MODEL TOURS
Tibet in China/Ladakh (North-West India)/Encounter Tibet
in Nepal/Darjeeling & Sikkim/Bhutan |
| NATURE IN TIBET |
| HISTORY OF TIBET |
| TIBETAN BUDDHISM
Keywords for Prayer/The Prayer Scene/Buddhas & Deities/
Mandala World/Tibetan Life/Tibetan Festivals |
| LHASA
Access/Around the Barkhor/Around the Potala Palace/Around
Lhasa |
| AROUND LHASA
Ganden Monastery/Lhokha (Shannan) Prefecture/Dranang Valley
(Zhanang)/Tsethang (Zedang)/Upper Reaches of the Kyi-chu (NE
from Lhasa)/Yamdrok Yumtso Lake to Lhakhang/To the East of
Tsethang/Namtso Lake and Nakchu |
| LHASA-KATHMANDU
Tsang (Shigatse & Gyantse)/Sakya (Sajia)/Lhatse (Lazi)/Jomolangma
Trekking/Dram (Khasa) [Zhangmu] /Lhatse to Saga/Kyirong Valley
to Nepal/Chumbi Valley to Sikkim & Bhutan |
| TO KAILASH
Route to Mt. Kailash/Mt.Kailash (Kang Rinpoche)/Lake Manasarovar
(Mapham Yutso)/Purang-Simikot The Guge Ruins/Kashgar to Mt.
Kailash (Xinjiang-Tibet Highway) |
| KONGPO [NYANGTRI (LINZHI) PREFECTURE]
Lhasa to Bayi/Mt. Bonri/Mt. Namcha Barwa /Bayi to Pome |
| CHAMDO (CHANGDU) PREFECTURE
Yunnan to Bayi/Chamdo to Nakchu /Dege in Sichuan to Chamdo/Chamdo
to Pomda |
| AMDO (Gansu, Qinghai & Sichuan)
GANSU PROVINCE
Lanzhou/Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture/North-west of
Gansu
QINGHAI PROVINCE
Xining/ Xining-Golmud-Lhasa/Qinghai Hu (Lake Kokonor) Huangnan,
Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture /Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
Guoluo (Golok) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture/Yushu Tibetan
Autonomous Prefecture (Jyekundo)
ABA (NGAWA) TIBETAN & QIANG AUTONOMOUS PREFECTURE (SICHUAN)
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| EASTERN KHAM
(Ganzi Prefecture & Muli County, Sichuan Province)
Chengdu/Ganzi (Kandze) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture/Around
Kangding Kangding to Ganzi, Dege, etc. (Sichuan-Tibet Highway
North) Kangding to Litang and Batang (Sichuan-Tibet Highway
South) Yunnan to Litang (Lithang) /Muli Tibetan Autonomous
County, Sichuan Province |
| DECHEN
(Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province)
Yunnan to Tibet/Kunming/Dali/Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
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| LADAKH & ZANSKAR
Delhi/From Manali to Leh /From Srinagar to Leh/Ladakh/Leh/Nubra/Valley/Zanskar/Lahaul/Spiti/Kinnaur/Dharamsala |
| NEPAL
Kathmandu/Everest Trekking/Mt. Kangchenjunga Area/Langtang/Manaslu
North/Pokhara/Annapurna Sanctuary/Jomsom & Muktinath/Manang/Lo
Manthang (Mustang)/Dolpo |
| SIKKIM
Kolkata (Calcutta)/Darjeeling/Kalimpong/Central & Eastern
Sikkim/Gangtok/Northern Sikkim Western Sikkim/Geyzing/Yoksum/Arunachal
Pradesh |
| BHUTAN
Phuntsholing ("Free Zone")/Paro/Thimphu/Punakha/Trongsa/Bumthang
Valleys/Mongar Lhuntse/Tashigang/Samdrup Jongkhar/Tashi Yangtse
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| APPENDIX
Survival Tibetan/Survival Chinese/Chinese Place Names/Embassies
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| INDEX
1)Tibet & China
2)India, Nepal & Bhutan
3)Map Index |
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