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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
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MODEL TOURS
Tibet in China/Ladakh (North-West India)/Encounter Tibet in
Nepal/Darjeeling & Sikkim/Bhutan
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NATURE IN TIBET |
HISTORY OF TIBET
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TIBETAN BUDDHISM
Keywords for Prayer/The Prayer Scene/Buddhas & Deities/ Mandala
World/Tibetan Life/Tibetan Festivals
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LHASA
Access/Around the Barkhor/Around the Potala Palace/Around Lhasa
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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
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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
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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)
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KONGPO [NYANGTRI (LINZHI) PREFECTURE]
Lhasa to Bayi/Mt. Bonri/Mt. Namcha Barwa /Bayi to Pome
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CHAMDO (CHANGDU) PREFECTURE
Yunnan to Bayi/Chamdo to Nakchu /Dege in Sichuan to Chamdo/Chamdo
to Pomda
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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
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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
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NEPAL
Kathmandu/Everest Trekking/Mt. Kangchenjunga Area/Langtang/Manaslu
North/Pokhara/Annapurna Sanctuary/Jomsom & Muktinath/Manang/Lo Manthang
(Mustang)/Dolpo
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SIKKIM
Kolkata (Calcutta)/Darjeeling/Kalimpong/Central & Eastern Sikkim/Gangtok/Northern
Sikkim Western Sikkim/Geyzing/Yoksum/Arunachal Pradesh
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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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