Lhasa Namtso(northern route)Shigatse-Lhasa(8 days tour) Warm welcome to take this roundtrip overland tour inside Tibet . Great offers at all times! Rough itinerary Day1 Get to Lhasa , transfer to hotel, rest for acclimatization Day2 Lhasa sightseeing: Potala Palace , Jokhang Temple , Barkhor Bazaar Day3 Lhasa sightseeing: Drepung and Sera Monastery Day4 Lhasa-Yangpachen-Lake Nam-Tso-Damxung ( 340km ) Day5 Damxung-Shigatse northern route landscape tour Day6 Shigatse sightseeing-Gyantse Day7 Gyantse sightseeing-Lake Yamdrok-Lhasa Day8 Lhasa departure Day to Day arrangements Day 1 Arrival by train or air, transfer to Lhasa, check in hotel, rest for acclimatization Upon your arrival at Lhasa Gonggar Airport or Lhasa Newwu Train Station, your Tibetan local guide and driver will pick you up with your name sign, and then they will transfer you to Lhasa city saf... read more

It is an open secret that application of Tibet travel permit for March is difficult after 2008. As a common practice goes for the past 3 years, the application of Tibet travel permit, also known as Tibet visa in the coming March has been suspended already. There has been no official notice about this, but the fact is, there have been many applications of Tibet travel permit for the coming March suspended or denied. No one really knows when the application can be resumed, but we suggest those who plan to travel to Tibet in the coming March to postponed the tour till at least beginning of April. Last year, the permit was suspended from 8th to 29th, March only. The early suspension in this year says that Tibet travel in this May, 2011 will not ... read more

Ethnic groups in Xinjiang generally have different cooking and eating methods. Han people in Xinjiang use chopsticks while Kazakhs eat with their hands. Ceremonial foods for certain groups include horse milk for the Kyrgyz and sheep entrails for the Xibe. The dishes of the Dongxiang people are prominent in Xinjiang-style restaurants. Signature Dongxiang dishes are noodles boiled in thick mutton soup and steamed twisted rolls. Uyghur food Uyghur food (Uyghur Yemekliri) is characterized by mutton, beef, camel, chicken, goose, carrots, tomatoes, onions, peppers, eggplant, celery, various dairy foods, and fruits. Uyghur-style breakfast is tea with home-baked bread, hardened yogurt, olives, honey, raisins, and almonds. Uyghurs like to treat guests with tea, naan and fruit before the main dishes are ready. Sangza (Uyghur: ساڭزا) are crispy and tasty fried wheat flour dough twist... read more

Hello all! I have two diffrent trips in May and June starting from lhasa and Any one like to take this ride and share the cost with others are welcomed. The one in May starts from lhasa and end up in yeching there will be one tour guide, one driver from tibet 3/4people welcomed to join us in may and it will be cheaper other time to hire a car will be 30000RMB but now if it is 4 people it will be 3000Rmb for esch if 3 it will be 4000RMB . anyone like to do this togther send me e mail at : freealip@yahoo.com Bold Text ... read more

Kariz refers to water supply - kareez (کاریز) (also spelt karez / kariz and later called qanat in Arabic) In its early beginnings, Samarkand occupied part of Mount Afrasiab (Afrosiab), which rises to the north of today’s Samarkand. As the city grew, it expanded its borders, and by the 9th century it occupied the entire hill. When Alexander the Great arrived, he established an intricate arrangement of lead water pipes (called, “Kariz”) along an aqueduct as the lifeblood for the city. Kariz was an ancient waterpipe system laid from the source of spring water in the mountain valleys to places where it could be used. The pipeline’s length could reach several kilometers, and contains interconnected wells that were dug out and spaced several meters from each other. These wells were used for cleaning sediment and debris ... read more