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2018 Litang festival is now begin, it is now with name of “Litang Cang Yang Dya Tso Poem Festival”. It last 4 days from August 2^nd to August 5^th. The programs are listed below:

Opening ceremony 
Time：August 2nd, 20:00  – 22:00 pm
Location: Litang Kang Nan Entertaining Center

Traditional Horse-racing
Time: The morning of August 3^rd and 4^th from 09:00 – 11:30 am
Location: Litang 8.1 Horse-racing Field

Sichuan Provincial Minority Writer Training and Poem Festival interview
Time: August 1^st to 4^th

Photography Exhibition
Time: August 2^nd to 4^th
Location: Rentang Ancient Street and Shuang Chuang Developing Area

Tibetan Merchandise Trading
Time: August 3^rd to 5^th
Location: King Gesar Plaza

Art Performance
Time: August 3^rd from 14:00pm to 16:00 pm
Location: Litang Kang Nan Entertaining Center

Art Performance – The Fan Yin
Time: August 3^rd – 4^th evening
Location: Litang Fan Yin Practice Center

Kangba New Tibetan Dress performance
Time: August 3^rd from 20:00 pm to 21:30 pm
Location: Litang Kang Nan Entertaining Center

Tibetan Traditional Dance of Guozhuang contest
Time: August 4^th from 14:00 pm to 17:30 pm
Location: Litang 8.1 Horse-racing Field

Tibetan Traditional Play
Time: August 3^rd 4^th in the evening
Location: Litang Tibetan Traditional Play Center

Qinghai Province has recently announced Qinghai Travel Ban on several national level nature reserves, including the Yellow River Source Area of Eling lake and Zha Ling Lake in Mado county; Nyempo Yurtse in Jigzhi county, Bird island and Sand island of Qinghai lake, Mt Qilian

In recent years, the rapaidly developed tourism and outdoor activities have become more popular in those region, in which visitors have poured in that results envirment damage, the left garbage and related activities of supplying has polluted local pasture and water sources. also the local wild life have been impacted by the approaching visitors.

In order to protect the local nature environment, Qinghai local authority has made the decision and activate the travel ban on those urgently protection-needed area; the reopen time is not for sure for the moment.

2019 Aba Festival date has been confirmed in between February 17^th to 20^th. The 2019 Aba Festival Tour has been updated accordingly

Find out the travel information about Aba county

Source: Xinhua

Recently, the Lhasa helicopter travel route, which is operated by Lhasa Xueying General Aviation Co. Ltd., has been confirmed. The route is heliport–Liuwu Bridge– Intercontinental Hotel–heliport and the total flying time is about 12 to 15 minutes. From now on, Lhasa of Tibet officially open the air-travel

Besides, the Lhasa Xueying General Aviation Co. Ltd. are also engaged in emergency rescue, medical aid, and short-distance transportation.

Potala Palace Ticket New Policy has just been announced by the Potala Palace Management due to the rapidly growing number of tourists, that all entrance tickets will have to be booked in advance. In addition, the number of visitors is limited at different times of a day. All those institutions are made to minimize damage to the earth structure and to protect cultural relics in Potala Palace.

• The entrance tickets for Tour groups can be booked online one day earlier
• Individual travelers are required to get the entrance tickets at the ticketing office one day earlier

For the moment, the Potala Palace received 3,000 tourists on a daily basis, and the number of visitor has been increasing, by the time of the high travel season, the daily visitor to Potala palace may be over 10,000 people or more;

According to the Management for the Potala Palace that with the promotion of “winter tours in Tibet－enjoy the world’s third pole”, all A-class tourist attractions in Tibet are open to tourists and citizens for free from Feb 1^st to April 30^th.

Source : Xinhua

As part of efforts to preserve the 1,000-year-old epic, Four books about the Epic of King Gesar have been released, according to researchers in Tibet Autonomous Region.

The Epic of King Gesar has about 200 episodes and being believed to be the one of the world’s longest epics. It tells how an 11^th century Tibetan demigod king conquered his enemies and helped the ordinary people.

The epic has been passed down orally by singers, often illiterate herders or peasants from Tibet, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region or Qinghai Province (Previously Amdo ), who have often claimed they were spontaneously repeating the lines after a strange dream or serious illness.

The four new publications of King Gesar epic are chanted by three folk singers, said Tsering Phuntsog, the director of ethnic studies center in the Tibetan Academy of Social Sciences.

One book is on the Tibetan mastiffs, two are about tribal wars, and the fourth is about how Gesar conquered a region and distributed gold to the people.

Each book is around 200,000 words. The books belong to a project called “Exclusive Renditions of Folk Artists on King Gesar,” which aims to publish 20 books, chanted by 14 artists. So far, 14 books have been published. Unlike the main stories of the epic, which are sung by various singers, the exclusive translation can only be told by one or two artists.

Transcription, recording and video-making of the stories started in 2009, some of the books are scheduled to be translated into Mandarin Chinese, according to Tsering Phuntsog.

The epic of King Gesar was listed as a World Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2009.

The iconic of Tibet – the Potala Palace will be open to the public free of charge for three months, as authorities are striving to promote winter tourism.

Starting Feb. 1, entry to the palace will be free of charge for tourists as part of Tibet’s program – “Winter Tourism in Tibet”

The program is designed to help with local tourism development, and push economic growth in Tibet, said Wang Song-ping with the regional tourism development commission. The program also includes free admission to all other quality tourist attractions in the region, plus discounts or subsidies given to tourists in terms of hotels and transportation.

The Potala Palace was built by Tibetan King Songtsen Gampo in the 7^th century and expanded in the 17^th century by the 5^th Dalai Lama. The palace, a symbol of Tibetan Buddhism, was listed in the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1994.

The Tradition Tibetan Printing is now still existed in the monastic attached printing house, one of which is called Derge Printing house, and it is located in Derge County

View the process in the below small video