Return to Tibet
Departing Kathmandu airport My first trip to Tibet was in 2006. We went by 4 wheel drive from Kathmandu to Kodari, the border crossing into Tibet, stayed in Zhangmu at 2300 metres and climbed the next day to Nyalam, over 5000m passes to Tingri. Kodari is now closed and has been since the 2015 earthquake. Zhangmu is now a badly damaged ghost town as it has no traffic. Flying to Lhasa is now the best option. An hour flight over the Himalayas By road was not the best way to access Tibet as it required fast acclimatization to altitude and caused AMS for many people. It is less than an hour flight from Kathmandu, Nepal. Local Lhasa market Lhasa main road I had already planned a culture tour to Bhutan and some of the participants said why don't we go to Tibet while we are in that part of the world. So I set out to organize this group to Kathmandu for the required 3 days to submit to the Chinese Embassy our Visa application, passports, group travel permits a...