Travel News
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Myanmar Exhibition Provides Chance to Learn about Tibetan Life
- YANGON - A cultural exhibition that opened on Sunday in Yangon will provide opportunities to enable Myanmar people to better understand Tibetan culture, according to China's diplomat in the country.
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Tropical Area in Southern Tibet Receives Record Number of Tourists
- LHASA -- About 4.95 million tourists visited the city of Nyingchi in southwest China's Tibet autonomous region in the first 11 months of 2017, up 18.94 percent year on year, authorities said Tuesday.
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Potala Palace Gets Annual Facelift in Tibet China
- LHASA -- The 1,300-year-old Potala Palace in Lhasa, capital of Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region, started its annual facelift on Wednesday.
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Tibet Museum Started Renovation & Expansion, Will Reopen in 2020
- Building work started Saturday to expand Tibet Museum in Lhasa, capital of Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region. The project is set to be completed in 2020 and will expand the 23,000 square-meter building to 58,000 square meters at a cost of 660 million yuan (about 100 million US dollars).
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Flight Route from Xi'an to Ngari Opens
- The flight route from Xi'an, capital city of northwest China's Shaanxi Province to Ngari Prefecture in southwest China's Tibet autonomous region was officially opened as the flight TV6017 landed safely on the prefecture's Gunsa Airport on Oct. 29.
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China Builds World-class Astronomical Base in Tibet
- Chinese scientists are building a world-class observatory base at an altitude above 5,000 meters at Ngari, in the west of China's Tibet Autonomous Region.
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Digital Archiving Preserves Tibetan Buddhist Artwork
- The details of more than 7,000 Buddha statues, 1000 Thangkas (a form of Tibetan silk paintings), 1,000 musical instruments used in Buddhist mass and hundreds of scriptures were recorded during the first round of digital archiving in 2015.
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Flight Route from Urumqi to Lhasa Opens in China
- The flight route from Urumqi to Lhasa via Xi'an opened to air traffic on Sept.13, ending the history of no direct flight between the two cities and strengthening the exchange between northwest China's Xinjiang and southwest China's Tibet.
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30-year-old Hikes 5,800 km from Heilongjiang to Tibet
- After hiking 5,793 kilometers in 209 days, Fan Qiangqiang finally stood in front of the Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet autonomous region, on Sept 19. Fan, 30, started the journey from his home in Yian county, Qiqihar in Northeast China's Heilongjiang province, on Feb 24, after three months'...
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Two Highest Ranking Tourism Attractions Added to Tibet
- The Basum Co Lake Scenic Area in Nyching, southwest China's Tibet. The Basum Co Lake Scenic Area and the Tashilhunpo Monastery Sceneic Area in southwest China’s Tibet were approved as the two new 5A level (the highest ranking for China’s tourism attractions assessment) tourism attractions by...