You can get your Tibetan travel permit from Eco-tours and just need to send your passport copy by Email to: info@ecotourchina.com. or zhao@ecotourchina.com
Foreigner have to get permit for travel into Tibet. It will takes about 5 days to arrange the permit if take airplane, or train, depart from some where China as Zhongdian / Shangri La, Chengdu, Kunming, Beijing, Xi'an, Shanghai, Guangzhou. And arrange permit for overland by vehicle depart from some where as Dali, Lijiang, Shangri La, or Chengdu, will takes about 10 days. For arrange the permit we will need:
1. Copy of first page of your passport. 2. Copy of visa page.
3. Copy of page with stamp of Chinese custom. 4. Your occupation ( job? ).
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Copy of first page of passport, Visa page, page with stampe of Chinese custom
Yunnan-Tibet . The Ancient Tea Horse Caravan Road
... This route would appear to have been in use long before it became an avenue for the tea and horse trade during the Tang and the Song dynasties, for it was a very important corridor connecting the ancient cultures of the areas of present Tibet, Yunnan and Sichuan. In such places as Ganzi and Aba distrcts of Sichuan and the Hengduan Mountains of Northwest Yunnan archaeologists have discovered many cist tombs which date from the Shang (ca. 1600-ca.1100 BCE) and the Zhou (ca. 1100-256 BCE) dynasties. These cist tombs are scattered broadly in the canyons and valleys of the upper reaches of the Min River as well as the Yalong and Jinsha Rivers. Most of these tombs are located in western Sichuan and western Yunnan, although a few have also been found in Tibet. Although there are slight differences between the cist tombs of the various sites, their main features and cultural characteristics are generally similar. The archeologists have established that the cist tombs discovered in Tibet are closely related with those of Sichuan and Yunnan in terms of their form and the grave goods. Notably those cist tombs found in Changdu and Linzhi, Tibet, definitely belong to the same cultural system as those in western Sichuan and western Yunnan (Luo Kaiyu 1992). The cist tombs in Tibet are for the most part found close to the roads which led directly from Yunnan and Sichuan. Thus it is clear that about 4000-5000 years ago, well before the Tea and Horse Road was opened, migration and communication among the various ethnic groups operated along this road ...
... The Tibetan people had been in close communication with the Tang and the various ethnic groups of southwest China for a long time; so it is very likely that the tea of Sichuan and Yunnan had already reached Tibet. As early as the seventh century Tubo (Tibetan) military power had conquered the ethnic tribes scattered in the present areas of Lijiang and Dali, Yunnan, and had established a military administration in northwest Yunnan. The military route used by the Tibetans to reach Yunnan was closely related to the contemporary tea and horse route. Yunnan is the one of the places where tea plants are native. Since 1949 scientists have found many wild and cultivated tea trees that are more than a thousand years old in the Nannuo mountains and Bada Mountains of Menghai County as well as Yiwu Mountains and Xiangming Mountains of Mengla County, Xishuangbanna. The local people call these ancient tea trees the Tea Tree Kings.?In the Man shu (the book about the native tribes of southwest China, written by Fan Chuo during the Tang), there is a description of the tea trees grown in southern Yunnan. It also states that the local tribal people of Nanzhao Kingdom (7th-9th centuries CE) had the custom of drinking the local tea (Fan Chuo 1961, 1992). The Tibetan military government had a very close relationship with the Nanzhao kingdom, and it is possible that Yunnan tea was introduced into Tibet during that time...
Packages: in Chinese RMB Yuan per person:
groups start with 1 person, maximum 8 people, 2~3 star 6000~3600.Yuan,
will includes: permit, vehicle, English speaking guide, hotel, entrances fee, all meals
Packages: in Chinese RMB Yuan per person:
groups start with 1 person, maximum 8 people, 2~3 star 7900~4200.Yuan,
will includes: permit, vehicle, English speaking guide, hotel, entrances fee, all meals
Packages: in Chinese RMB Yuan per person:
groups start with 1 person, maximum 8 people, 2~3 star 11600~5400.Yuan,
will includes: permit, vehicle, English speaking guide, hotel, entrances fee, all meals
Packages: in Chinese RMB Yuan per person:
groups start with 1 person, maximum 8 people, 2~3 star 14600~5800 .Yuan,
will includes: permit, vehicle, English speaking guide, hotel, entrances fee, all meals
Packages: in Chinese RMB Yuan per person:
groups start with 1 person, maximum 8 people, 2~3 star 22,000~6200.Yuan,
will includes: permit, vehicle, English speaking guide, hotel, entrances fee, all meals
Packages: in Chinese RMB Yuan per person:
groups start by 1 person, maximum 8 people, 2~3 star from 26,000~6800.Yuan.
will includes: permit, vehicle, English speaking guide, hotel, entrances fee, all meals
Zhongdian--Lhasa by air Shanghai--Lhasa by air
Packages: in Chinese RMB Yuan per person:
groups start by 1 person, maximum 8 people, 2~3 star 32,000~8000.Yuan.
will includes: permit, vehicle, English speaking guide, hotel, entrances fee, all meals
Packages: in Chinese RMB Yuan per person:
groups start by 1 person, maximum 8 people, 2~3 star 12,000~42,000Yuan.
will includes: permit, vehicle, English speaking guide, hotel, entrances fee, all meals
Packages: in Chinese RMB Yuan per person:
groups start by 1 person, maximum 8 people, 2~3 star 34,000~8600.Yuan.
will includes: permit, vehicle, English speaking guide, hotel, entrances fee, all meals
Packages: in Chinese RMB Yuan per person:
groups start by 1 person, maximum 8 people, 2~3 star 20,000~6000.Yuan.
will includes: permit, tain tickets, vehicle, English speaking guide, hotel, entrances fee, all meals
Dali-Deqen-Mamkam-Ningchi-Lhasa-Everest by 4WD 15-18 days
Zhongdian-Lhasa by air 3-5 days
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Beijing to Sichuan / Daocheng / Yahding / Litang / Gongga snow mt.
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