Best Season for Tour in Tibet

From April to October is the best season for touring Tibet. July and August are the raining season and the scenery is beautiful, yet the heavy rain will cause a result of bad road condition. Winter is also a good time to visit places along the Yalutsangpo valley, such as Lhasa, Tsetang, Nyinchi, Gyangtse & Shigatse, for the day time temperature is about 15℃ above zero.

Mountain Sickness

One of the important factors the visitors to Tibet concerned about is the mountain sickness, because the average elevation of Tibet is about 4000 meters above sea level. If you have never been to highland before, you may feel a little bit uncomfortable when you first arrive there, such as headache, dizzy, heavy breathing, tired and insomnia, for the air there contains less oxygen. But these uncomfortable feelings will disappeared automatically after one or two days. Those with heart diseases or high blood pressure should be much more careful and better consult a doctor before going to Tibet.

Adapting to Highland Climate

In order to adapt to highland climate quickly, please take everything easy and have a good rest; drink much more water, better not to take smoke or sprit; keep warm to avoid catching cold; prepare some pain-killers for necessary use.

Clothing

When travelling in Tibet, warm clothe are needed for the temperature differs much during the day and night. Even in Summer time, sweater and jacket are necessary.

Tibetan medicine has a history of 2,000 years. According to the historical record, several centuries ago, during the lengthy course of fighting the nature and disease by Tibetans, some part of fauna and flora and mineral products are found to deliver people from pains. They thought, “poison could be used as an antidote to poison”. Then they developed the medicinal knowledge of stanching bleeding by using butter.

With the people's recognition to nature and productive development, Tibetans accumulated rich experience for Tibetan medicine. When the Han Princess Wencheng and Jingcheng came to Tibet in marriage, they brought a large number of books on traditional Chinese medicine and medical practitioners and promoted the Tibetan medical development. Among them, the most famous Tibetan medical practitioner in the 8th century was Yuthok Nyingma Yonten Gonpo systematically compiled the Four Medical Tantras as the result of combining art and medicine, whose major works are systematically described through colored wall charts which are convenient for people to study and understand. It is not only the initiative in our country but also being rare in the world.

Tibetan medicine has the astonishing description in the embryology of humanity and the formation of human body in early times as well as many remarkable features of curative effects on medical treatment. For instance, the ready-made medicines to cure hemiplegia with seventy medical peal herbs and hypertension with the red coral are all testified by medicinal experiments as good dosages. Specially, they have very remarkble curative effects on curing leprosy and cancer.