Authentic Tibetan Natural &
Cultural Travel
( Tekking, Home Stays and Wild Adventure )
Cultural Travel
( Tekking, Home Stays and Wild Adventure )
Here we use the word "Travel" instead of "Tour" to emphasize a journey and experience itself instead of purely visiting so-called tourist highlights.We are based in Beijing with partners in Xining, Lhasa and Chengdu with much experienced handling of the authentic trek, camping, home stays, wild adventures and the land arrangment in the traditional Tibetan regions - Amdo, Kham,and U-Tsang.
We create the page of "Authentic Tibetan Natural & Cultural Travel" aimed at making advantage of our local resources to organize authentic off-the-beaten trips to Tibet, camping with nomads and Himalayan trekking, experiencing its authentic cultural and natural beauty. We advocate Eco-Tourism - improving the well-being of the local people while maintaining enviromental integrity.
For regular Tibet highlight tours, please check out the link "Lhasa Tibet Tours".
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 Tibet Travel Packages (Trekking & Camping)We organize pre-arranged and tailor-made authentic Tibetan treks and campings, creating authentic journeys to the off-beaten-path locations in Tibet.We are committed to high-quality, environmentally sustainable travel services. |
Introduction to Tibet's Three Areas Beyond Today's Tibet boundary,Tibetans still live in the three traditional regions - U-Tang, Amdo and Kham including the present Tibet and parts of Qinghai, Sichuan and Yunnan provinces.A basic knowledge of the three regions is useful for your Tibetan travel. |
| Tibetan Buddhism Religion is extremely important to the Tibetans and has a strong influence over all aspects of their lives. Join us to learn more about Tibetan Buddhism and its origins. |
Tibetan Art The Tibetan art takes the forms and designs from painted furniture to elaborate murals in religious buildings, immersed in almost all the apsects of life on the Tibetan plateau. Come with us to visit monasteries, artist workshops, thangka studios, rock carving villages,carpet weaving nomads camps and modern art galleries, and interview artists. |
| Tibetan Medicine Traditional Tibetan Medicine utilizes behavior and dietary modification as well as natural medicines (herbs and minerals) and physical therapies to treat illness. Come with us to visit traditional Tibetan hospitals, meidical factories, and medical colleges. |
Tibetan Festivals There are numerous yearly festivals and events in Tibet and all the plateau.These festivals include horse racing, dancing, singing, praying and dispaying of religious artowrk. |
| Tibetan Wild Life The vast remote Tibetan is home to a unique group of large mammals,including the Tibetan antelope, black-necked cranes, wild yak, brown bears, wolves and snow leopards.Come with us to witess a way of life untouched for centuries through our wildlife trips. |
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Trekking & Camping in Qinghai (Amdo)
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Tour Code: TTC-01 Destinations: Xining, Kumbum Monastery, Qinghai Lake South Shore Duration: 2 Days Tour Type: Private Tour Itinerary & Price Enquiry |
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Tour Code: TTC-02 Destinations: Xining,Mengda Lake, Xunhua and Rebkong Duration: 4 Days Tour Type: Private Tour Itinerary & Price Enquiry |
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Tour Code: TTC-03 Destinations: Xining, Rebkong, Labrang and Langmusi Duration: 7 Days Tour Type: Private Tour Itinerary & Price Enquiry |
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Tour Code: TTC-04 Destinations: Xining,Rebkong and Nomad Camping at Tsekog Grasslands Duration: 5 Days Tour Type: Private Tour Itinerary & Price Enquiry |
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Tour Code: TTC-05 Destinations: Walking kora around Amdo's Holiest Mountain Duration: 14 Days Tour Type: Private Tour Itinerary & Price Enquiry |
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Trekking & Camping in Tibet (U-Tsang & Kham)
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Tour Code: TTC-06 Destinations: Trip to North Face Duration: 13 Days Tour Type: Private Tour Itinerary & Price Enquiry |
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Tour Code: TTC-07 Destinations: Explore Alpine Meadows and Snow-Capped Peaks Duration: 22 Days Tour Type: Private Tour Itinerary & Price Enquiry |
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Tour Code: TTC-08 Destinations: Follow a Pilgrim’s Path to the Holy Mountain of the West Duration: 18 Days Tour Type: Private Tour Itinerary & Price Enquiry |
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Tour Code: TTC-09 Destinations: Explore the Stunning Beauty of Central Tibet Duration: 9 Days Tour Type: Private Tour Itinerary & Price Enquiry |
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Tour Code: TTC-10 Destinations: Discover the Colorful Countryside of Lhasa Duration: 12 Days Tour Type: Private Tour Itinerary & Price Enquiry |
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Introduction to Tibet's Traditional Three Areas
1.U-Tsang: Or Tang-U, one of the three traditional provinces of Tibet, it covers the central and western parts of Tibet. Today's Tibet Autonomous Region occupies what was ancient U-Tsang and western Kham. U-Tsang is the cultural center of the Tibetan people. Successive Dalai Lamas ruled Tibet from the Potala and Norbulingka palaces in Lhasa.U, where the Dalai Lama has his seat at Lhasa, was designated "Front Tibet"while Tsang was designated on maps of the Qing dynasty as "Back Tibet" whose largest cities are Gyantse and Shigatse, where the Panchen Lama has his traditional seat at Tashilhunpo Monastery.
2.Amdo: Amdo is a traditional provinces in the Tibet, which now has been merhed into today's three provinces - Gansu, Sichuan and Qinghai.The traditional Amdo is home to over 1.5 million Tibetans. Western Amdo is populated by mostly nomadic people herding yaks and sheep while many are farmers making use of the fertile soil in the area. Amdo is also home to many important Tibetan Buddhist monks (or Lamas), scholars like the H.H14th Dalai Lama, the 10th Panchen Lama, and the great reformer Je Tsongkhapa.
3.Kham: Kham is a historical province of Tibet occupying the large area shared by present-day Tibet Autonomous Region and Sichuan province, with smaller parts within Qinghai, Gansu and Yunnan provinces.Kham is well known for its sweeping grasslands, craggy mountains and pure rivers. The most famous horse race takes place in Kham area.
Tibetan Buddhism
Religion is extremely important to the Tibetans and has a strong influence over all aspects of their lives. Tibetan Buddhism is mainly composed Mahayana and Vajrayana, and has four main sects:
1.Gelug(pa)：Also known as Yellow Hat.The spiritual head is the Ganden Tripa and today's temporal head is the Dalai Lama. This order was established in the 14th to 15th centuries by Je Tsongkhapa,based on the foundations of the Kadampa tradition. Tsongkhapa was well-known for both his scholasticism and his virtue. As Gelugpa school,the Dalai Lama is considered as the embodiment of the Bodhisattva of Compassion.
2.Kagyu(pa): This sect is composed of one major subsect and one minor subsect. This is an oral tradition which is very much related to the experiential dimension of meditation.Its most famous master was Milarepa, an 11th-century mystic.
3.Nyingma(pa): This is the oldest, the original order founded by Padmasambhava.
4.Sakya(pa): Grey Earth, headed by the Sakya Trizin, established by Khon Konchog Gyalpo, a disciple of the great translator Drokmi Lotsawa. Sakya Pandita 1182–1251 CE was the great grandson of Khon Konchog Gyalpo. This school pays great attention to scholarship.
Tibet is a land of Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, also known as Guanyin in Chinese. The Tibetan people are believed to the descendants of of Avalokiteshvara. Join us to learn more about Tibetan Buddhism and its origins, listening to lectures by monks, visiting monasteries of all kinds, participating in religious festivals and watching monks debate.
Tibetan Art
Tibetan art is an important part of the cultural life of Tibet.The Tibetan art takes the forms and designs from painted furniture to elaborate murals in religious buildings,immersed in almost all the apsects of life on the Tibetan plateau.
The vast majority of surviving artworks are distemper on cloth or murals,committed to the depiction of religious subjects. They were sponsored either by religious establishments or by pious individuals for use within the practice of Tibetan Buddhism and most of them were made in workshops by Tibetan artists.
Come with us to visit monasteries, artist workshops, thangka studios, rock carving villages, carpet weaving nomads camps and modern art galleries, interviewing artists, learning from monks and even try your hand at making traditional crasfts.
Tibetan Medicine
The Tibetan medical system is one of the world's oldest known medical traditions based on Buddhist philosophy and psychology. It explains that everything existing or non-existing in the world derives from the mind and the five elements. The mind is considered to be the base because all existences and moments depend on its movements; it is the creator of every external and internal phenomena.
The Tibetan medical heritage is based on the fundamental medical treatise, which is comprised of four sections, usually known as the Four Tantras:
The Root Tantra
The Explanatory Tantra
The Oral Instruction Tantra and
The Last/Subsequent Tantra.
When treating illness, Tibetan doctors prescribe natural medicines,phisicaltherapies,behavior and dietary modifications.Come with us to visit traditional Tibetan hospitals, meidical factories, and medical colleges,talking with meidcal scholars,meeting with medical doctors.
Tibetan Festivals
There are numerous yearly festivals and events in Tibet and all the plateau.These festivals include horse racing, dancing, singing,praying and dispaying of religious artowrk.Below is a list of major festivals in Tibetan calendar all year round. The Tibetan calendar lags approximately four to six weeks behind the solar calendar.
Tibetan New YearDate: First Month 1-7 (Tibetan Calendar)
The Tibetan New Year is the most important festival in the Tibetan calendar.Different regions of Tibet celebrate the New Year differently.
Monlam Prayer FestivalDate: 1st Month 4-25 (Tibetan Calendar)
Also called the Great Prayer Festival in Tibet, which is a religious festivalcelebrated across the plaeau.The festival includes the Monks'mask cjam dance show,thangka display and more.
Shoton Festival Date: 6th Month 30 (Tibetan Calendar)
"Shoton" in Tibetan means "sour milk banquet",also called the Yogurt Festival.The Shoton Festival traditionally begins with exhibitions of Buddha paintings and Giant Thangka display.Folk arts and traditional opera are performed during the festival.
Bathing FestivalDate: 7th Mongth 6-12 (Tibetan Calendar)
In Tibetan, this festival is called "Gamariji",the Tibetan name for the planet Venus. It is so called because the rising of Venus in the sky signals the beginning of this festival where Tibetans bathe in rivers and lakes.
Horse Racing Fair and Archery FestivalDate: between June and July (Tibetan Calendar)
Horse Racing and Archery Fairs are unique events held in the Tibtan plateau. The horse racing events are held when the pastures are lush and the horses and cows are stout and strong. The most well known events are the Kyagqen Horse Racing Art Festival of Nagqu and the Darma Festival of Gyangze.
Tibetan Wild Life
The vast remote Tibetan is home to a unique group of large mammals,including the Tibetan antelope, blck-necked cranes, wild yak, brown bears, wolves and snow leopards. The teachigs of Tibetan religion, a mixed traditional Buddhism and older shamanic beliefs has showed a respectful attitude to wildlife. Rare species such as black-necked cranes and Tibetan eared pheasants can benefit directly from co-existence with people.
Come with us to witness a way of life untouched for centuries through our wildlife trips.
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