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There are two new bus routes that are just opened in kangding recently;

Kangding to Jin-tang village: 4 buses a day, departures at: 07:00am, 10:00am, 13:00pm, 16:00pm; with start of Kangding new town, and with terminal of Jin-tang village;

Kangding to Sha-de county: 2 buses a day, departure at 07:40am, and 15:00pm; with start of Kangding new town, and with terminal of Sha-de county;

The tickets are temporarily set:

• Kangding to Jin-tang: 20rmb per person
• Kangding to Sha-de: 30rmb per person
• Kangding to Gu-za county: 10rmb per person

From 25^th June 2015, a new direct flight from Kangding that connects Kham to Kunming – the capital of Yunnan province will be excuted by Sichuan Airline;

Kangding is the gateway township for people traveling onto Tibetan plateau overland, it is the center of political, ecnomic, culture, business, information of the Khampa area in the east Tibet; with this new flight, the area of Khampa is now better connected with the outer world;

Kangding and Kunming flight detail:

• Date: on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday;
• Kunming to Kangding – Flight 3U8173, 07:00am — 08:30am;
• Kangding to Kunming – flight 3U8174, 09:20am — 10:05am;

Shambhala Kalachakra mandala is a landmark that located in the center of Shangri-La of Yunnan Province, the whole building is a 12 stories of Tibetan architecture, worships a 21 meters high Kalachakra Buddha Statues, and 9 meters Kalachakra Mandala; there are dozens of showroom from 3^rd to 8^th floor that keeps nearly 2000 Tibetan cultural relics, and 1600 pieces of Thangka; this is a great Museum that showcase of Tibetan culture

This turism festival is held by the local authority of Gan-nan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture; the main venue of this festival is at Feng-die New district of Zhou Qu county; and there are three sub-venues in the old district of Zhou-qu county,Mt La-ga and Ba-zang village; the activities of this tourism festivals are: Zhou-qu painting & photography exhibition, Bo valley flowers festival, Bazhai Water Festival, Fairyland La-ga Mountains, and the openning of Zhou-qu Tibetan Folk Museum;

Mi-dui Glacier is located some 100km east from Pome county in the east of the central Tibet; the road to this beautiful site is now under rebuilding, the building of the road will have to last till July 15^th according to the schedule; During the period of road construciton, there is one Traffic-Control; Mi-dui glacier will be still open till the end of June; and then it will be fully closed from July 1^st to 15^th visited;

It will be reopen from July 16^th;

Accordingly, this is a daily flight with different departure time; on Monday, Wednsday, Saturday, and Sunday, this flight departures at 09:35 from Lhasa, arrive at Kunming at 11:55am, departure at 13:00pm again, with arrival of Changsha of 15:00pm; On Tuesday and Friday, it leaves Lhasa at 09:40am, arrive in Kunming at 12:00 at noon, with arrival of Changsha at 15:00pm;

The return flights departures at 15:50pm from Changsha, arrival kunming at 17:55pm, leaves Kunming at 19:05pm, arrival of Lhasa at 21:35pm;

“Tibetan treasures – Tibet Cultural Relics Exhibition Garden” in Chinese Garden-Art Museum Beijing was opened on 16^th June. 108 (sets) of precious cultural relics and Thangka from Norbulingka are first exhibited out of the Tibet. This exhibition will last to August.

Norbulingka is located nearly 2 kilometers west of Potala Palace Lhasa, was built in the mid-18^th century, Norbulingka in Tibetan means “Previous garden”, It is the former summer palace for Dalai Lama. Ever since 2001, Norbulingka is listed on the World Heritage sites by UNESCO.

The exhibition of cultural relics diverse category, including Tibetan Buddhist deities statues, musical instruments, various rare Thangkas, Tibetan Buddhism Religious articles, different categories of Buddhist texts, copper Yamantaka like, Zijin master Atisha like, gilded patina Tara statue, also Vajra, France bell, Buddhist prayer beads and other supplies, as well as the Dalai Lama’s daily necessities, clothing, and Milarepa Thangka, Tara Thangka. Some of the exhibits items are with age of dating back to the Tibetan Tubo dynasty, of which there are a large part of a national-grade cultural relics

Previously, passengers had to return their tickets and rebuy a new train ticket if there is any change to the date or final destination;

From 2015 June 10^th, passengers will now be able to change ticket on date or final destination without buying a new one;

The cancellation fee is still 5% if to return the tickets in between 48hour- 15 days before the departure