About
Jamin “Losang” Lee has lived and worked in various areas of Tibet for the past 10 years. He spent several years working for an NGO focusing on adult education programs for Tibetans from the Amdo and Kham regions and in 2006 he co-founded a successful travel agency which organized nearly 500 custom tours and treks across Tibet. In 2009, he co-founded Plateau Photo Tours which arranges unique, high-quality, culturally and socially responsible photography workshops across the Tibetan Plateau and Nepal. Losang serves as the lead guide on all of Plateau Photo Tours workshops. With clients, his goal is to help them understand, appreciate and respect the people and cultures they photograph.
At Mt. Everest Base Camp on the Tibet side
Losang has done research on Tibet for several guidebook companies including Lonely Planet, Frommer’s, DK Eyewitness Travel and Fodor’s. His expert knowledge on Tibetan culture, history and religion has been used for research by The Discovery Channel, BBC, Animal Planet and numerous NGO’s. He has traveled extensively across all regions of Tibet, totaling over 350,000 kilometers overland.
Losang has had countless images published in magazines and books across North America, Europe and Asia. Even in the harshest of conditions that Tibet has to offer, he has his camera with him at all times. In addition to Tibet, he has traveled throughout Mongolia, Thailand, Burma, Malaysia, Laos, Nepal, India, Pakistan as well as other regions of China.
For travel information on Tibet or for advice on which travel agencies to use for your upcoming trip to Tibet, send Losang an email to thelandofsnows@gmail.com.
For information about upcoming photography workshops and cultural tours in Tibet, send him an email at jamin@plateauphototours.com
At Tashi Lhunpo Monastery in Shigatse, Tibet
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Phyliss, Glad that you like the site! Check back soon for new posts on Tibet!
Dear Losang
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I’m planning trip to Tibet in October 2012 with a group of 8 friends. Main areas planned to visit are Kailash and Kharta valley (also EBC). We likes close contact with nature and ability to “touch” things not only to see and have a very good experience (and long relationships with such angencies in Nepal, but Tibet is new stuff for us). Can you suggest any responsible and friendly, for sure not too big focused on mass groups, agency to organize such trip?
Thank you in advance, best regards
Slawek
Slawek….Hope you are doing well. For travel inquiries, it is best to send me an email at thelandosnows@gmail.com.
Thanks!
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Dear Losang,
this is tony and glad to write to you again. Hope you are doing just great! and I wish the Plateau Photo Tours programs are going great. Best wishes, tony in Lhasa
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Dear Losang,
I would like to ask you, please, if there is any closed (for foreigners)
area in Amdo or Kham now?
We would like to go from Rebkong, Langmusi, Zoige, Aba, Nangchuk, Kirti,
Dzamthang, Barkam, Sertar, Danba, Garze, Manigango, Yarchen, Dege, Litang,
Daocheng.
Thank you very much!
Kind regards,
Jan Kostal
Or, do you have any recomandations where to go for this July also regarding the weather, please?
Dear Sir
I shall be travelling in Qinghai soon especially focusing on the Nangchen province as I will be staying in my Guru’s monastery, which is located there. I would like to ask you a question in regards to visa. I have quitted my job for this trip and I hope to spend a longer period of time over there. However, I have obtained a multiple entry Chinese visa but each entry I am only restricted to 30 days stay. As it will be very expensive for me to travel out of China and come back in again to have passport stamped, is there anyway I can extend my stay to more than 30 days for one visit?
Thanks
Anthony, you can extend your visa at least once for 30 days in Jyekundo, the capital of Yushu prefecture where Nangchen is located. You can also extend it in Xining, the capital of Qinghai.
My daughter has been booked for a cycling tour in Tibet for some time. She was advised, this day, that the tour cannot take place as a consequence of a closure of Tibet border/s. Can you enlighten us as to present situation?
Yes, new permits for Tibet are NOT being processed right now. It is hard to say when permits will begin being processed again. I do not expect new permits to be issued until at least early November.
Losang
Dear Losang,
I had been in Tibet for year 2009 and planning to return there by middle of next year 2013. Need some suggestion to see something different about tibet again.
Best Regards,
Sharon Wong
Sharon, Read through the following link for some suggestions on where to go in the future:
http://www.thelandofsnows.com/why-not-amdo-kham/
Losang
Dear Lobsang,
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Ughen Choezom….Tashi Delek! I hope you are doing well. Thank you for the compliments on my website. Please keep in touch.
Losang
Big surprise..after long time..this is Norbu from AIT, I hope u r doing fine, cheers..
Hello,
My name is Pauline Marmilloud. I am french and I would like to go from Beinjing to Kathmandu over land. I would like to arrive in Kathmandu the 1rst of may, and I wouldn`t like to visit Tibet so much. Just cross.
I imagined a trip like:
-Take the train from Beijing to Lhasa (2 days)
-Spend one night in Lhasa, and the day after:
-take the bus (or jeep) from Lhasa to Kathmandu.
I have also a small budget. I can sleep in a budget hostel and take the `soft or hard seat class` if it can help me to have a good price.
Can you propose something for me? How much would it cost?
Can you give me your postal adress in Beijing to talk directly this you when I will arrive in Beijing? (the 15th of april)
Thank you very much for your understanding.
Pauline
Sorry, I only arrange photography tours in Tibet and don’t arrange the type of tour you are wanting to take. Send me an email at thelandofsnows@gmail.com and I will send you some recommendations on which travel agency in Lhasa to use.
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