If you are traveling to Lhasa, which tour do you think you can choose, where to visit will be better? In Lhasa, there are the following attractions are not bad, you can choose to visit the tour is not the same as before, there will be a very good experience.
Take a helicopter overlooking the holy cityUnless it is after a special approval process, Lhasa is a city-wide ban on flying, so aerial photography enthusiasts can not use drones to record this great city, in order to find a unique angle of view will also be someone climbed to the Medicine Mountain to shoot the Palace. But in fact, you can take a helicopter circling over Lhasa to get a God's-eye view of the city of sunshine.
The helicopter's takeoff and landing point is at Tsering Airport, Tibet's first general aviation airport, which sits on the banks of the Lhasa River, just across from the Potala Palace. The airport is not far from the center of Lhasa, so you can take a taxi or drive to the airport, and some travel agencies will send cars to pick up and drop off the helicopters, which is very convenient.
Before boarding the helicopter, there will be a series of registration procedures as well as training and security checks. Because the helicopter cabin noise is very large, in addition to the same as the general aircraft to wear a seat belt, but also must wear a headset, there is something directly through the headset and the captain to communicate.
All ready for takeoff! In an instant, you're high in the sky, with roads, rivers, skyscrapers, and the majestic Potala Palace at your feet.
The whole flight takes about 12-15 minutes, and the fee is not as unattainable as you might think, at 780 yuan a person. If you feel not enough, you can also choose to charter a plane to see Namucuo, the whole round-trip more than two hours, the price is going to be a little more expensive.
Along the way the snowy mountains and lakes are densely covered, the shutter casually pressed, is a blockbuster. The plateau of the sacred lake can be very clear reflection of the sky blue, Tibet sea from the high place to see and from the flat ground to see is not the same feeling.
When others endure the high backlash to drive five or six hours to reach Namucuo, you wrapped in a windbreaker from the helicopter slowly down, simply contemporary Versailles. Of course, the premise is that the wallet has to be enough drums.
We don't have to worry about safety, the captains and co-pilots of the helicopters have been screened through a rigorous examination.
The helicopter is the H125, nicknamed the "Little Squirrel" by Airbus, which is far superior to other single-engine helicopters in terms of performance and safety, and is good at working in extreme environments such as high temperatures and plateaus.
Price: 780 yuan/person
Route: Sub-Jyorin Airport (take-off)-Liuwu Bridge-Sub-Jyorin-Intercontinental Hotel-Sub-Jyorin Airport (landing)
Watch the art exhibition in the Holy CityNot far from the Great Showa Monastery, a nondescript white house in front of the door hung a piece of "Roots Gunpei Contemporary Art Gallery I'm sure many people have passed by this place countless times without ever setting foot inside.
This is Tibet's first self-financed cultural cooperation and non-profit art institution formed by local artists, founded in 2003, the 100th anniversary of Mr. Gendun Qunpe's birth.
Who is Mr. Gendun Qunpe? He is a famous thinker, scholar and monk in modern Tibet, his legendary life and spiritual doctrine is a model of independent and innovative spirit in modern Tibetan culture and art, which has influenced generations of Tibetan scholars.
The gallery organizes various types of exhibitions and academic exchange lectures from time to time, all of which are free to visit. Here we can meet many young Tibetan contemporary artists and see more contemporary art works with Tibetan elements as the carrier.
There you will learn that Tibetan art is not only about thangkas, but also about oil paintings, installations and photographs that express the spirit of Tibet.
In addition to the Gendun Qumpe Contemporary Art Gallery, there is another private gallery on Senshu Island that opened only this year, the Tibet Jieguan Art Center.
This art center took nine years to complete, and the venue itself is a building well worth visiting. It's hard to imagine such a modern, avant-garde space in Lhasa, the city of faith.
There are no obvious light sources throughout the interior, taking advantage of Lhasa's sunny city to create a lot of natural light surfaces. The different moments of the day are interwoven by light and shadow, which is very ingenious.
Of course, there will be private collections and some heavyweights on display.
Gendun Qunpei Contemporary Art Gallery
Open: 10:00-24:00
Address: No. 4, Barkhor North Street
Tibet Jieguan Art Center
Open: 10:00-22:00
Address: No. 4, row 10, Xianshidao Garden District
Painting a thangka with your own hands When it comes to Tibetan culture, there must be a thangka, most people's understanding of the thangka only stays in the feeling that the thangka is very expensive above. Never understood the art of thangka, Lhasa large and small places to sell thangka, but it seems that there is no personal experience of drawing thangka.In fact, ordinary tourists want to experience the thangka culture, you can go to the above mentioned Gendun Qunpei contemporary art gallery on the third floor. Here there are several teachers who have studied thangka for more than ten years, they will explain the history of the evolution of thangka, the characteristics of different thangka schools, as well as the characteristics of thangka in different regions, and you will have a more in-depth understanding of the thangka after taking this class.
Because the thangkas we see every day are more beautiful and complicated, many people would think that thangkas are very complicated, and there is no way to learn them in a short time, but in fact, thangkas are just a form of expression, and in a short period of time, we can also complete a simple thangka work.
From the most basic taut canvas on the beginning of a number of instructions, thangka canvas selection is smooth, dense white cotton cloth, there can not be any stains, small holes or cracks. After adding special materials, the cotton cloth is polished, flattened and dried before it can be used as a thangka canvas.
When the canvas is ready, it's time to grind the paint. We all know that thangkas are very expensive, that's because all the pigments for thangkas are made of precious mineral stones such as gold, silver, pearl, agate, coral, turquoise, malachite, and vermilion, as well as some precious plants such as saffron, hsukang grass, flower green, and yellow lotus flower.
These natural raw materials ensure that the painted thangkas are brightly colored and radiant, remaining brilliant and bright even after hundreds of years.
The canvas and paints are ready to start painting under the guidance of the teacher, who will guide you throughout the painting process. After measuring the scriptures, tracing the line drafts, sketching the line through the drafts, coloring, and sketching the line and other steps, a thangka of your own will be completed.
Going to Rangma Hall to dance potshangRangma Hall in Lhasa is considered a nightclub for Tibetan compatriots. Lhasa has the best hardware facilities in the entire Tibetan region, the most lively Rangma Hall, of course, is not to be missed.
First of all, Rangma Hall is also an embodiment of Tibetan culture, you can get a close-up view of how the trenchant modern Tibetan compatriots carry out the interior soft furnishings.
Secondly, the large-scale Rangma Hall will invite some well-known Tibetan singers to perform, and you can feel a handful of the star-crossed madness of the Tibetan people. Tibetan songs with the times, and rap rap, to tell the truth is quite good.
Most importantly, Rangma Hall can break the language barrier and quickly integrate into fellow Tibetans. Along with the rhythm of Tibetan pop music, everyone around together dancing potshang is the most can let you feel the enthusiasm of Tibetan compatriots moment.
Tibetan friends are mostly very hospitable, only because of the language barrier and other reasons may be less likely to take the initiative to talk to each other, but a glass of beer down plus dizzying light, hand dancing, talking and gesturing, tonight we are all brothers.
If you don't like the nightlife and want to experience the joy of dancing with fellow Tibetans, then you can choose to go to Zongjiao Lukang Park at the foot of the Potala Palace in the morning, and the morning exercise of Lhasa citizens to have a hundred people pot Zhuang.
Rangma Hall recommended: Golden Horse Interpretation Center, Niwei National Opera House, Tibetan Sunshine Interpretation Club
Walking through Chongsaikang MarketEarlier in the year when the Tibet must have a faith string, the conditions are also good in the string decorated with turquoise, red coral to make themselves look more distinctive.
Therefore, going to the antique market in Lhasa to shop "Taobao" has become an indispensable part of going to Lhasa.
Chongsaikang market is in the downtown area of Lhasa, is the largest daily-use small general merchandise market in Lhasa, clothing, daily necessities, food, spices and other things are available, most of the shoppers are locals.
The most interesting is actually the market in front of the three-way intersection, in the afternoon there will be a lot of people in the stalls here to sell literature, quite a Beijing magnet mouth meaning.
When the winter season is closed, there are many Tibetan friends selling dzi beads, turquoise, beeswax and red coral. Usually the seller will use a thin rope to string up these valuables, hang them around their necks, and then tuck them into their robes to block them from view, and only take them out when they see someone who looks like a real buyer.
But nowadays the fish and dragons mixed, things really fake, most of the things may come from Yiwu, if not a connoisseur if you look at the line, do not be rashly out of the price cut.
Chongsaikang Market
Opening time: 10:00-21:00
Address: No. 31, Beijing Middle Road
Going to Sera Monastery to see a debateThe initial Tibet is just out of the love of the natural scenery, and there is no study of religion. Until a later coincidence in Chamdo Qiangba Ling Monastery to see the local monks debate, only to have an understanding of the debate, and compared with Qiangba Ling Monastery, Lhasa Sera Monastery's debate is more representative.
Sela Temple is located in the northern part of the city of Lhasa, a single temple itself, not as famous as the Da Zhao Temple, where most tourists come to visit a wonderful "debate".
Debate is here to practice and study the monks of the mandatory courses, every Monday to Friday at 3:00 pm to start. It can be thought of as a common debate, except that the topic of the debate becomes a Buddhist classic or some other proposition given by a living Buddha.
Serra Monastery's debate is famous for two main reasons, one is the duration of the cycle is relatively long, a debate down plus the teacher's review time, easily more than two hours.
The other point is that the Sera Temple debate scene is exceptionally grand, the number of participants, while the debate during the exceptionally intense, because they do not understand their language, often mistakenly think they want to fight, but in fact they are just in the expression of their own views, to express their own views on the topic only.
The debate usually consists of a standing questioner and a seated debater, and the standing questioner will put pressure on the debater through body language, glaring at him or high-fiving him, urging him to answer quickly.
Because of the natural language barrier and the lack of understanding of Tibetan Buddhism, it was hard to understand what they were arguing about, but I was touched by their earnestness.