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Snow leopard in Qinghai province
Snow leopard is to live in the region with altitude 3000-5000 meters, because the change of climate which results the melt of snow. The area that Snow leopard usually lives in becoming incompatible more and more, and the number of Snow leopard is fewre and fewer.
Recently a record about this creature that has tooken four years to accomplish is to be lunched by China Central Television Station. Please few clips here
Potala palace, low season entrance fee
Potala Palace is to be activated the low season tickets from November till the next March. The entrance fee is 100 rmb (or 16usd).
In high season (April 1st to October 31st), the entrance fee is 200rmb per person (32usd)
2016 Litang Horse Racing Festival is just updated
2016 Litang Horse Racing Festival is just updated, please find detail festival date, location and prices at here
Paris Chengdu Direct Flight
Air-China will open Paris Chengdu Direct Flight from January 28th 2016
This direct flight is between Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport & Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport; with Flight schedule: CA457/8; three flights a week on Monday, Thursday and Saturday
Departure from Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport at 01:30am, with arrival of Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport 06:20am
Departure from Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport at 12:15 at noon, with arrival of Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport at 06:00am + 1
Aircraft on this flight is Airbus A330;
This flight shall help a lot for French visitors coming to visit the southwest of China, including: Sichuan province, Yunnan province, Guizhou Province, and Tibet
Tingri Earthquake
Tingri Earthquake: A 3.1 magnitude earthquake with epicenter depth of 8 kilometer just happens in Tingri County, Shigartse, Tibet at 20:12pm 19th August 2015
The new bridge to Yarlungtzanpo Grand Canyon
The new bridge to Yarlungtzanpo Grand Canyon is called “Lu-Xia Bridge”, and is now completed and being used since 2015 July 28th.
Previously, there were two choices of entering the Yarlungtzanpo Grand Canyon from Nyingchi, one is to take the boat from Luxia Ferry and get to the Grand Cayon, which is slow; another one is about 150km long; with this new bridge, the distance is now about 60km shorter, which helps to save 1.5 hours;