What routes will be put in this category?

when we talk about "Adventure tours ", we mean tours by 4WD vehicles in China southwestern area and when the tour meets the criterias as specified below, they tourpackages will be included into category - "4WD Adventure Travels"

1.  Overland travel by 4WD vehicle to Lhasa from Karshigar, Xining, Chengdu and Lijiang or Kunming

• Kashigar (Kashi) is a small town in far west end of Xinjiang Wei Autonomous region; Kashigar can be reached by train and air from Urimqi, the capital of Xinjiang A.R.
• Xining is the capital of Qinghai province; the famous Qinghai-Tibet railway starts from this city; the distance from Xining to Lhasa is around 2000 kilometers
• Chengdu is the capital of Sichuan province; Chengdu is famous among tourists for its lovely panda feeding and research center and other interesting scenic spots of history, calture and nature
• Lijiang is a small old town, its population is Bai people in major; generally, Lijiang is the best startpoint for doing 4WD adventures to Lhasa; some tourists prefer to take Kunming, the capital of Yunnan province as their startpoint.

• tours in western Sichuan: Ganzi Tibetan prefecture
• tours in northern Sichuan: Aba Tibetan prefecture
• tours in southern Qinghai province: Yushu Tibetan prefecture and Guoluo Tibetan prefecture
• tours in northern Yunnan province: Diqing Tibetan prefecture

EXCLUSION:

1. tours to Mt. Everest from Lhasa will be put into category - "General Tibet tours"

2. tour to China/Nepal border from Lhasa (with/without Mt. Everest" will be included into category - "General Tibet tours" [map: Lhasa to Kathmandu]

Two types of adventures are very difficult to be operated

(1) Only doing 4WD adventure in eastern Tibetan withtout touring to Lhasa, Nakchu and Lintse or
(2) when doing adventure tours outside Tibet A.R. but you want to cover Chamdo (biggest city in eastern Tibet A.R.),

because these two type sof adventures involve applying special permits from

• Tibetan Tourism Bureau (T.T.B.)
• Lhasa headquater of Armed police forces of P.R.C
• Lhasa headquater of Millitary forces of P.R.C.

If you want to cover Chamdo (biggest city in eastern Tibet A.R.) into your adventure plan, you have only two ways:

• fly to Lhasa and start your tour from Lhasa and end your tour at Lhasa after touring eastern Tibet A.R.
• take our pre-arranged, packaged 4WD adventures to Lhasa from such cities as Chengdu, Xining or Lijiang