Bright colors, impressive landscapes, deep spirituality, a sense of remoteness and oppression – all that is Tibet to us. This page collects book recommendations for Tibet travelers and impressions from our 2013 trip through the Tibetan influenced regions of Gansu and along the Friendship Highway from Lhasa to Kathmandu.
Before we went to Tibet, I kept reading and reading about the place, and the more I read, the more I felt that there was something that I did not understand. Being too young to know the movie, I was only able to tell that all those guide-books made allusions to a myth, a secret […]
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After days in a desert-like landscape, we are overwhelmed by the green of the vegetation that unfolds around us as we drive from Nyalam to Zhangmu, the last town on the Tibetan side of the border.
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As we continue along the Friendship Highway, we traverse high passes and are treated to the most spectacular mountain views.
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Our route from Lhasa to Kathmandu takes us past sacred monasteries, stunningly blue lakes and the world’s highest mountain.
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As travelers in Tibet, we realized that we knew very little about Tibetan history. Or, in fact, we basically knew nothing at all. Without Sam van Schaik’s book, I would have had a lot of difficulties to understand what our guide told us about the buildings and statues we saw. If you do not know […]
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Lhasa has been on our mind since long: we thought about it when we applied for our visa to China. We longed to be here while we had to convince the staff in a Chinese travel agency to sell us plane tickets to Tibet. We dreamed about Lhasa when we drank our first yak butter […]
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