The Tibetans, a friendly group with distinctive customs, religion and a culture of their own make Tibet all the more special in China
Tibet is advanced in astronomy, ancient algorithm and medicine, Tibet is abounded of classics and literature works. Among Tibetan greatest art treasures are painting, architecture, carving, music dancing, folk opera, and famous ancient art sites all around Tibet.

Tibet has a long historical culture. Ancient remains show that human beings lived here from 4 thousand to 20 thousand years ago. Tibetans are so diligent and brave that they create vital and diverse cultural customs. This is a nation filled with special traditional culture and a nation keen on dancing and singing.

Now tourists can enter Tibet in many ways, by bus from Xinjiang, Qinghai, Sichuan or Yunnan; by air from Beijing. Chengdu or Chongqing to Lhasa. Through Dro-mo foreign touring tourists from Bhutan, Sikkim and India can make their tour in Rgyal-rlse, Gzhis-ka-rtse, Ding-rior Lhasa, or through Spu-hrangs tourists from Nepal India can enter Ali area, if they are by air, they can take a direct flight from Katmandu to Lhasa.

The most well-known sites are the Potala palace, Norbo-lingkha, Sera Temple, Drepung Temple in Lhasa; Zhaxilhunbo Temple, Gzhis-rtse-rdzong in Gzhis-ka-rtse;Rnan-sras-Gling Garden, and Smin-gorl-gling in Granang; Byang-pa-gling Temple, kharub site in Chab-mdo; Mtho-lding-dgon-pa in Rgyal rtse; Mtho-lding Temple, Guge kingdom site in Rtsamdva; khra-vbrug Temple, and Yambulha-khang in Snevu-gdong; the tomb of Tibetan king in Qiogjie ,The tour of these places and the custom of the nationality are the most special in the world.

Potala Palace
Located along the Dmarpo-ri Mountain, northwestern to Lhasa Capital of Tibet, the Potala Palace was built after the seventh century, It is 13 floors high, takes an area of 41 hectares and it is piled up with granites with thousands of halls. Inside the palace, there are coffin towers of corpses of Lama through the ages and sorts of scripture halls. Every coffin towers of corpses of Lama through the ages and sorts of scripture halls, every coffin tower is luxurious decorated with gold foils, pearls and jades. The largest tower of the fifth Lama is 1485 meters high; its decoration contains 119 Acrner (inside look) of the potala palace Tubo king of Tibet. Songtsan Ganbo thousand liangs of gold, 4 thousand pearls of all sizes and countless other jewels. Dalai lived, worked and made the Buddhist services in the Potala. His bedroom was on the top of the Palace with a whole day's sunlight so as to be called" sunlight hall". After the peaceful liberation of Tibet, the Potala palace was set up by the Chinese central Government to be the important site of preservation of cultural relics and maintained with fixed fund provided by government, from the spring of 1989 to the summer of1994, government appropriated a sum of 53 million yuan to maintain it and this made the Potala palace more splendid and luxurious.

At the center of Lhasa, Vphul-snang temple was built in 647 for Tubo king of Tibet, Songtsan Gambo to marry the Han princess Wencheng of Tang Dynasty.

There were Buddhist and scripture halls inside the temple which was covered with golden tile ceiling to make it more brilliant. Vphrual-snang temple's style originated from both Tang Dynasty and Nepal, India. Right on the center of the hall consecrates the same size of a golden statue as sakyamuni when he was twelve. On the passage and four sides of the hall, there is a lively Tibet fresco, nearly one thousand meters long, which depicts the grand view when the Han princess wencheng entered Tibet, and many fairy tales are told.

Barkhor Street
Along the Barkhor Street close to the vphrul-snang temple stand stores one by one, which are opened and run by local merchants and those from Nepal and India. They sell many kinds of light of the famous scene spot Lama of vphrul-snang temple in Tibet is introducing this temple to the foreign visitors handicrafts with distinctive national features. What attracts the tourists most is people in the street. They put the palms together, put their heads, arms and knees down to ground, and move forward slowly every step with a kowtow. This is the highest admiration of Lama to express the most honest hearts to the Buddhists. Some of them come here far away with a step. A kowtow; and some from local areas. In the morning they kowtow around Vphrul-snang temple for half an hour, then go home to change their clothes, wash their hands, and have breakfast and go to work. This king of kowtow is a physical movement all over the body like Taiji and Qigong popular in the interior of the country, although it is a religious movement; new content makes it a special life of Lhasa inhabitants.

Gzhis-ka-rtse rdzong and Zhaxilhunbo Temple
Tourists are also interested in Gzhis-ka-rtse rdzong and Zhaxilhunbo Temple of Gzhis-ka-rtse city. "Rdzong" means a fort, or a mountain fastness in Tibet language. Like other religious buildings such as Potala palace, Gzhis-rtse-rdzong is located on the top of a high mountain. It was once used as both a military fortress and local authorities of former Tibet's local governors. It was built in Ming and Qing Dynasties installing scripture halls, Buddha halls, county magistrate offices, courts, jails, and storehouses etc, there is a secret water channel connected with water resource. All these features are unique evolved from the long history of the old fort building development.

Zhaxilhunbo temple is the biggest one of the Sect during the later Tibet with a history of five hundred years. It is the center of religious and political movement of panchen Lamas. There are over fifty scripture halls and more than two hundred rooms built along the mountain slope. In the Maitreya Hall, 30 meters high, the seated maitreya's hat, face, breast, waist and foot each stands for one floor of the Hall. The bronze statue is composed of 6,700 liangs of gold and 230 thousand jins of red copper and there are one thousand and for hundreds of diamonds, pearls, and ambers and decorated between the brows of it.