Once travelers reach Lhasa, the options for sightseeing on the Tibetan Plateau are almost as dizzying as the altitude. Agencies in seemingly every hotel offer road trips to formerly isolated ...

While Tibet as a whole is underdeveloped compared to other parts of China, Lhasa is probably the closest you'll come to a big, bustling city (the population is about 200,000 people).

2007-02-11 04:00:00 PDT Rongbuk Monastery, Tibet-- In Shangri-La there are no flush toilets. In fact, the less said about the facilities the better. Destinations all over Central Asia claim to be ...

Tibetan Scholar Maps Ancient Commercial Routes After years of field research, a noted Chinese Tibetan scholar has drawn up a map of five commercial routes known as the Cha Ma Ancient Road, ...

DHARAMSHALA: The Central Tibetan Administration of the Tibetan government in exile, based in Dharamshala, is planning to draw up a map to counter China's tactics of changing the names of places ...