The 1200 kilometer route from Xining to Chengdu through the traditional Tibetan region of Amdo has become quite popular in recent years. This route passes through several amazing Tibetan towns that are home to some of the most important monasteries in…
Himalaya Tours
Who We Are Though I am from the US (Seattle Area), I spent nearly 15 years living full-time on the Tibetan Plateau working in tourism, cultural preservation, guiding and community development. My travel blog, The Land of Snows, has become…
Overland from Xining to Chengdu
The 1200 kilometer route from Xining to Chengdu through the traditional Tibetan region of Amdo has become quite popular in recent years. This route passes through several amazing Tibetan towns that are home to some of the most important monasteries in…
Why not Amdo and Kham?
Can’t afford a journey to Lhasa, Everest or other areas in the Tibet Autonomous Region? Then why not travel to the open areas of Amdo and Kham? Read more about why these areas are amazing!
Problems with a Group Chinese Visa
Problems with a Group Chinese Visa Here are the differences between a standard Chinese visa and a Group Chinese Visa. In addition to a Chinese visa, all foreigners are still required to have travel permits as they have for the…
The Friendship Highway
Friendship highway Kathmandu to Lhasa; The 830 kilometer route linking Lhasa with the Nepal border at the Sino-Nepal Friendship Bridge remains the most popular overland route in Tibet. The Friendship Highway follows the western portion of Chinese National Highway 318.…
The TAR part of Kham
The TAR part of Kham region is found in Chamdo prefecture ཆབ་མདོ་ས་ཁུལ་, as well as parts of Nagchu ནག་ཆུ་ས་ཁུལ་ and Nyingtri prefectures ཉིང་ཁྲི་ས་ཁུལ་. The Kham part of the TAR lies all in the east and covers roughly 1/3 of the land mass of the…
The Sichuan Part of Kham
Ganzi/Garnze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture དཀར་མཛེས་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་ in western Sichuan covers an area of 151,078 square kilometers (58,331 square miles) and is located in the traditional Tibetan region of Kham. It is approximately the same size as the US state of New…
The Qinghai part of Kham
The Qinghai part of Kham: Yushu/Yulshul Tibet Autonomous Prefecture ཡུལ་ཤུལ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ། in far southern Qinghai covers an area of 188,794 square kilometers (72,894 square miles). It is roughly the same size as the US state of Washington and about half the size…
Kham
Kham ཁམས་ is one of the 3 main traditional regions of Tibet, along with U-Tsang དབུས་གཙང་ and Amdo ཨ་མདོ་ and is located in the eastern and southeastern corner of the Tibetan Plateau. Kham is a large area covering over 924,000 kilometers² (356,000 miles²) and…