How to Get to Tibet, Flights, Trains, and Overland option

The document required for visiting Tibet is a little different from that of Nepal. You will submit a Chinese Visa and passport while we apply for your Tibet travel permit.

Generally, a tourist would get the L category of the Chinese Visa. If you have a different kind of Visa, You will need to submit additional proof with your passport and Chinese Visa.

For student visa, you will have to submit a letter from your school in china or an ID issued by your school in China. So is with the business and any other Visa.

Taking a flight to Lhasa from different parts of China is one of the most convenient ways to reach Lhasa. Here you can travel from home to Lhasa with only one connecting flight in big cities in China.

Here, the only hiccup is that you will need the original copy of the Tibet travel permit before getting on the flight to Lhasa.
To address this issue, we can either send the permit to your hotel in China or help send someone to deliver your permit at the Airport in Chengdu or Beijing.

For delivery service, we will have to send us the precise information about your flight schedule and your haul time duration. Or the detail hotel information.

We often recommend travellers to keep the hauling time more than an hour and a half. We also recommend downloading Wechat for easy communications with the delivery person.

Out of all the flights’ route to Lhasa, we strongly recommend travellers take Chengdu to Lhasa flight easier serviceable due to location and airport.

After completing the Qinghai-Tibetan railway line, Tibet became more accessible to travel via the train journey. Travelling to Tibet on the train is very easy and offers a mesmerizing view of the Tibetan plateau along the way.

But the train journey has its challenging.

Availability of the Ticket.

Tibet is also a major travel destination in the domestic Chinese Tourism market. The train is a cheaper alternative, a lot of local Chinese tourists visit Tibet on the train, which makes Train ticket harder to get. So you will have to book your train ticket for at least a month in advance.

You can only buy a train ticket with a local Chinese ID.

Without a Chinese ID card, you can buy a train ticket. We can help you secure the train ticket. Additional to our train ticketing services, you can also try other Chinese train booking services.

You will need a print copy of your Tibet travel permit.

To board the train to Lhasa. You will need to show a copy Tibet travel permit. We will send you a copy of the permit as soon as it is issued. You can make a copy whenever you receive it.

For sending a copy of your permit, You will have to give us your additional email address. Please make sure you will have access to your email in China.
If you are taking the train from Chongqing to Lhasa, you will need the permit’s original copy; you will have to send us your hotel address in China.

The overland journey to Lhasa from other provinces of China is a significant highlight of Tibet tourism. You can travel from Xingjiang, Sichuan, Yunnan or Qinghai to Tibet.

Out of our experiences, Journey from Kashgar to Lhasa is the most epic. Travelling along the southern silk route, you will get the best of the remotest region of the world.

Travelling to Lhasa from Yunnan or Sichuan is also a great route to exploring Tibet's greenest region. Here you will get to drive along the Yarlung Tsangpo river with the world's deepest canyon.

For those travellers visiting Tibet from Nepal, you will need to get a Chinese Group Visa from the Chinese Embassy in Nepal. And only a registered agent can help apply it on your behalf. We will arrange for our partner to help you apply for it.

It usually takes three business days to get your Group Visa, and you can visit Tibet on the fourth. So plan your journey as per with consideration of the Chinese National Holidays.

The Chinese Group visa is on separate paper

The Chinese Group Visa is on two pieces of A4 size paper, not on your passport. You will need both when you arrive at the Chinese Border. One paper is for your entry, and another is for your departure. So please do not leave it in Nepal and do not lose it.

We have seen some people leaving it at the hotel in Kathmandu or Kathmandu Airport. If such happens, you will never get entrance into China.

If you already have a Chinese Visa on your passport

Please Remember, Once when the group visa is issued. Pre-existing valid Chinese Visa will automatically get cancelled if you have a valid Chinese Visa for multiple years on your passport. It is not wise to visit Tibet from Nepal.

Instead, we would recommend you began the Tibet Trip from other parts of China, ending in Nepal.

The only international flight to Lhasa so far is from Kathmandu. Daily there is one flight on average.

• One of the biggest challenges in taking the flight to Lhasa is the Chinese Group Visa. You will have to talk to us about your plan in Details to ensure you have the Visa on hand on the flight date.
• Another drawback of this flight route is primarily during the Moonsoon season in summer. Your flight is likely to get de routed to Chengdu city for reduced visibility and location of Lhasa Airport.

If this happens, you will get to reach Lhasa on the second day. Which might means you will lose a day or half-day guided tour, which is why it is always wise to keep your visit to Potala palace on the third day so that you will not miss the icon of Tibet.

The Trans Himalayan Journey from Nepal is one of the most epic in the world. On this journey, you will be travelling from the lush green of the southern Himalaya to the Martian landscape of the northern side of the Himalaya.

This journey takes you through the land border post on Kyirong town in Tibet. After a night in Kyirong town, you will be crisscrossing over the Himalaya on the Gungthangla pass. Following the footprint of Guru Rinpoche. The 8th-century Indian master responsible for spreading Buddhism in Tibetan Plateau.

As you reach the Tibetan Plateau, you will be received by the beautiful Peikutso lake on the north and Mount Shishapangma on the south.

This journey is especially hard during the monsoon season on Summer days. Due to heavy rain in the valley, the road often gets washed away.

Our client had many incidences to break their journey into many days and usually took an expensive helicopter ride to Kathmandu.

Besides its beautiful landscape, the journey is not advisable during the monsoon season, from mid-June to Mid September.

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