All tourists come into Tibet through Lhasa, accessible via the Lhasa Gonggar ... or around $5 to get into town). However, your journey via train will be a lot longer (from Chengdu, it's more ...

It was the early 1920s, and the young adventurer William Montgomery McGovern had managed to sneak into Lhasa, the "forbidden city" of Tibet. Few, if any, Westerners had ever made the journey. To reach ...

As a student studying abroad, I was traveling in the Tibet Autonomous Region in southwestern China and happened to see the public spectacle of killing criminals in the town of Lhasa. Even now ...

Shilok (R) and his colleague check a traditional Tibetan mask in Dagze district of Lhasa, Southwest China's Xizang autonomous ...

LHASA: The trials and sentences of the people jailed for their involvement in the March 14 riot last year in Lhasa, Tibet were fair and in line with Chinese law, judges and lawyers said on Thursday.

west and especially over the mountains into Tibet. So they started packing up their leaves for the long journey across the top of the world to Lhasa. That route came to be known as the Tea Horse ...