Travel to Tibet with a well organized group

Most of the people have more or less chance to travel to the other countries, me, too. In my point of view, traveling to the other countries is itself a kind of adventure. If you have English as the tool of communication or conversation after you establish yourself on the English speaking countries, like United States, Australia, etc, you will feel much easier to go for a sightseeing, to know the meaning of some stuff, even hint behind the stuff. However, if you travel to a country with totally different language speaking country like Tibet, your feeling might be not as good as traveling to the English speaking countries. You can adventure the mountains, rivers, and sightseeing with a book you bought, but you can not adventure Tibetan cultures, and something like that. Then you may ask me why? Or in anther word, can a tourist understand more than by a very simple way?

The simple way is to travel to Tibet by a well organized group. This does not mean that you have to join the group, but it means that you or your party can be itself a group by having a guide, a vehicle and etc.

The advantage of traveling to Tibet as a group lies in two or more aspects.

One is that normally it is a person’s life time to travel to Tibet, after all it is the roof of the world. It may be more expensive than traveling to Thailand, to China, to Peru, etc. Every time he goes to Tibet supposed one travels to Tibet for more than one or two times, he will be suffered by the altitude sickness. Some times you even cannot bear it and just want to leave as one minute as possible. Of course everyone has more or less the altitude sickness, but it is better to release it as quickly as possible. Thus to travel to Tibet with a travel agency, well organized, you are free from the difficulty to buy the tickets like air tickets, Potala Palace tickets, etc. Take Potala Palace’s entrance tickets for example, you have to line up for at least 4 hours one day before to get it. One case happened last year that a backpacker lined up for the ticket and after one week he did not get the tickets.

Furthermore, you can enjoy the explanation of Tibet with the up-to-date information by having a guide with you, rather than the out of date book. And you can also ask the local guide for anything you are interested in. Hence having a Tibetan English speaking guide is better than a better English speaking guide.

Some times you will avoid getting yourself in to difficult situation by traveling with a trustworthy travel agency. You know English is not popular in Tibet, even the Mandarin of Chinese is not well spoken in Tibet. Though Tibetan people are very kind, they and you can not have a conversation in order to get yourself out of the trouble, even the guide does not know the way, but least he can speak Tibetan language and can find the way out.

Of course to travel as a group (even one people can be a group if you book the package tour) is a little more expensive than backpacking traveling. But a few more dollars or Eros will be more worthy than the money itself, after all it is a life time trip!

This is my suggestion. Please let me know your comments if you have.

Mark Lee

president@accesstibettour.net
http://www.accesstibettour.com