China Visa:China Visa is required for applying your Tibet Travel Permits. For those who hold Singapore, Brunei and Japan passport is no visa required to visit China for up to 15 days for travel or visiting relatives etc. Chinese Visa can be applied from Chinese embassies and consulates in your locality and must be obtained for applying your Tibet Travel Permit. Please kindly check your regional Chinese Embassy website. Please do not mention you are going to Tibet when you apply Chinese Visa, otherwise your visa may be denied by Chinese embassy. You can write down the name of any city in China as your travel destination when you apply your Chinese visa.

Tibet Permits:All the application for obtaining Tibet Travel Permit should be submitted 15-20 days before your expected travel starting date. Your travel agency can apply for the permit for entering Tibet once you got your Chinese visa. Scanned copy of Chinese visa and information page of passport are needed to be sent to our tour agency once you confirmed your trip with us. Your travel agency will send a scanned Tibet Travel Permit to you if you travel by train to Tibet and original Tibet Travel Permits to your hotel in China if you travel by flight to Tibet since the original permit is required if you come to Tibet by flight rather than train. Different documents are required for applying your Tibet Permits in terms of the type of Chinese Visa that you hold.If you hold ‘L’ visa (tourist visa), please kindly email us clear scanned copy of your information page of passport and your Chinese visa around 25 days before you arrive in China and we can help you to apply your Tibet Travel Permit.If you hold ‘F’ (visiting) or ‘Z’ (business) visa, please kindly email us clear scanned copy of your information page of passport, your Chinese visa, and a recommendation letter from your company, and please be aware that if you hold business visa, then please send us your work permit as well.If you hold ‘D’ visa (permanent residence), please send us photo copy of your passport, Working Permit and Residence Permit.If you hold ‘X’ visa (student visa), please send us photo copy of information page of your passport, Chinese visa, the recommendation letter from your school with stamp for certifying your are currently studying in China and a scanned copy of your student ID card.Tibet Permits include Tibet Travel Permit, Alien’s Travel Permit & Military Allowance. Tibet travel permit often be issued by Tibet Tourism Bureau (hereinafter we call it TTB) if you, as a tourist, go to Tibet only for a tour.A second permit or travel document is also needed after you arrive in Tibet and you want to travel to places out of Tibet Travel Permit limit (you should list these places in your itinerary before you apply your Tibet Travel Permit & it only takes around one working day to be issued). This is called Alien’s Travel Permit and the permit can only be obtained from Foreign Affairs Division, Public Security Bureau Tibet and your tour agency will help you get it when you are in Tibet.

Alien’s Travel Permit is need if you travel to regions below: Tsedang: Samye Monastery, Tomb of Tibetan King, Trundruk Monastery, YumbulakhangShigatse: Sakya Monastery, Mt.

Everest, Rongbuk MonasteryGyangtse: Pelkor Chode Monastery & Kubum Stupa

Ngari Region: Mt.Kailash, Lake Manasarovar, Tsaparang, Years, ect.

Nyingchi Region: Basum-tso, Pomi, Rawo-tso, ect.

The third kinds of permit are called Military Allowance & Foreign Affaire Permit:which often can be issued by the concerning military offices & Foreign Affairs offices. If the places you will travel to under the military control, you have to get the permit and your travel agency will tell you which places you need to apply this kind of permit.

1. You’d better buy travel accident insurance before setting out so that you would get assistance in time if any accidents occur.

2. The temperature difference between day and night in Tibet is big and the weather is changeable. Please put on extra clothes or put off them accordingly. The temperature is low in the evening at high altitude, so it's necessary to wear down coats. Car will bump along the land stirring dust, so it would be better to prepare masks.

3. Namtso Lake is at an altitude of 4714 meters . You might develop altitude sickness in different extents. Please take some anti-fatigue medicines like Herba Rhodiolae or Gaoyuanan in advance. Good rest is needed and alcohol as well as strenuous exercise should be avoided.

4. In the area of high altitude, due to dry weather, thin air as well as the reflection of snow ground and water surface, ultraviolet radiation is very strong. A high SPF sunscreen and a pair of sunglasses should be prepared.

Potala Palace:Potala Palace is located on the Red Hill in the northwest of Lhasa. And it is a famous architectural complex made up of palaces, castles and temples which are the essence of Tibetan ancient architectural art.The Potala Palace was built in the seventh century. A palace of 999 rooms, it was built at an altitude of over 3,700 meters on the Red Hill of Lhasa. The palace, which was built on the hill, now covers 410,000 square meters and its architecture area is 130,000 square kilometers. The main building of the palace has 13 floors and is 115 meters high. It is all stone-wood structure. All the five roofs of palace are covered by gold-plating brasses tiles. It is the essence of Tibetan ancient architecture art.The main structure of Potala Palace is the White Palace and the Red Palace. The White Palace is the Winter Palace of Dalai Lama. It also used to be the past Tibet local government office. There are seven storeys in this building. Tsoqinsha Hall is located on the centre of the fourth floor. It is the largest palace in the Potala Palace White House, whose area is 717 square meters. And it is the place to hold important religious and political activities such as Dalai Lama enthrones and attends grand ceremonies. Rooms on the fifth and sixth floors are for the regent to work and live. The seventh floor, on the top of the White Palace, has two living rooms for Dalai Lama during the winter. Because of the sunny weather all day, they are called East Sunlight Hall and West Sunlight Hall, respectively. The Red Palace, mainly consisting of the chapels for Dalai Lamas’ stupas and all kinds of Buddhist chapels, contains eight stupas which keep the relics of past Dalai Lamas. Among them, the stupa for fifth Dalai Lama is the biggest. In the west is great west hall, the memorial hall of the stupa for fifth Dalai Lama Hall. It is also the biggest hall in the Potala Palace, which covers an area of 725 square meters and there are all frescoes on its inner walls. The thirteenth Dalai Lama’s tomb stupa temple is the latest building in the Potala Palace, which starting in 1933, costing 3 years to be built. During more than 1,300 years, the Potala Palace has collected extremely rich historical and cultural relics and kept them in storage. Among them, there are murals of more than 2,500 square meters, nearly a thousand stupas, tens of thousands of statues and Thangkha (scroll paintings); also, there are valuable scriptures collections like Pattra-leaf scriptures and Kangyur via; There are numerous and various cultural relics, including golden books, golden and jade seals, porcelains, enamels, brocades, crafts, and gold, silver and jade articles.In addition, there are wall paintings on all walls of the palace, Buddhist prayer rooms and passages of the Potala Palace and various relief sculptures around there. Most of the murals and sculptures are bright and colorful, which are mainly themed by plateau scenery, historical tales, stories of Buddhism and construction scenes of the Potala Palace, etc. And they are of highly historical and artistic values.

Jokhang temple:The Jokhang temple was founded in 647. After generations of repair and build-out, it is now a huge building group. The temple has an area of more than 25,100 square metersand has over twenty palaces. The main sanctuary is 4-storey high with gold plating copper tile roof, which shows the architectural style and drawn the architecture feature from Nepal, Indian and Tang Dynasty as well. In the middle of the hall, there is a gold-plated statue with the same figure of 12-year-old Shakyamuni which was brought by Princess Wencheng from Changan. On both wings of the palace are enshrined the statues of Songtsen Gampo, Princess Wenchengand sPrincess Bhrikuti and other statues.