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 ...