Posted on 13 April 2008
Arriving in Kaili a major town in Guizhou the group stumbled on a local festival. To celebrate the traditions of the local minority tribes the festival, which runs every August, includes dance and bullfights. The bullfight is a competition between two huge water buffalo which face off in front of an enormous crowd that cling [...]
Posted on 13 April 2008
Right from the start the trip had an air of excitement about it. Having met each other only on the net by email, our first meeting was in a Hong Kong hostel. Although we knew each other from emails, we had never heard or seen each other before and didn’t know for sure that anyone [...]
Posted on 13 April 2008
The only legal routes into Tibet are: 1. Via Chungdu where you can buy an air ticket for 3000Yuan ($375) This allows you to travel around Lhasa. 2. Via the Golmud to Lhasa highway. From this remote town on the borders of Qinghai and XinJiang there is a 35 hour bus route to Lhasa. Although [...]
Posted on 13 April 2008
At present entry into Tibet is controlled by the ‘PSB’ public security bureau that requires travelers to possess a permit of travel. more information: Areas in China/Tibet open to foreign travellers Getting a permit means you must be in a group so if you want to travel independantly from China to Tibet it has to be [...]