Lonely Planet Tibet

By Lonely Planet, Bradley Mayhew, Michael Kohn and Daniel McCrohan

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher

Lonely Planet Tibet is your passport to all the most relevant and up-to-date advice on what to see, what to skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Hike around Mt Kailash, Asia's most sacred mountain, visit Potala Palace where the Dalai Lamas lived, or view Mt Everest unobstructed from Rongphu Monastery; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Tibet and begin your journey now!

Inside Lonely Planet Tibet Travel Guide:

• Colour maps and images throughout
• Highlights and itineraries show you the simplest way to tailor your trip to your own personal needs and interests
• Insider tips save you time and money and help you get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots
• Essential info at your fingertips - including hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, and prices
• Honest reviews for all budgets - including eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, going out, shopping, and hidden gems that most guidebooks miss
• Cultural insights give you a richer and more rewarding travel experience - including customs, history, art, literature, music, dance, architecture, politics, and landscapes
• Over 54 local maps
• Useful features - including Month-by-Month (annual festival calendar), Tours & Permits, and Walking Tours
• Coverage of Lhasa, Tsang, Kham, Ngari, U, Pasho, Rawok, Bayi, Tashigang, Gyantse, Shigatse, Lhatse, Tingri, Nyalam, Pomi, Manigango, Ganzi, Kangding, Lithang, Bathang, Baber, Zhangmu, Gongkar, Kathmandu, Chengdu, and more

eBook Features: (Best viewed on tablet devices)

• Zoom-in maps and images bring it all up close and in greater detail
• Downloadable PDF and offline maps let you stay offline to avoid roaming and data charges
• Seamlessly flip between pages
• Easily navigate and jump effortlessly between maps and reviews
• Speedy search capabilities get you to what you need and want to see
• Use bookmarks to help you shoot back to key pages in a flash
• Visit the websites of our recommendations by touching embedded links
• Adding notes with the tap of a finger offers a way to personalise your guidebook experience
• Inbuilt dictionary to translate unfamiliar languages and decode site-specific local terms

The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet Tibet, our most comprehensive guide to Tibet, is perfect for those planning to both explore the top sights and take the road less travelled.

• Looking for more extensive coverage? Check out Lonely Planet's China guide for a comprehensive look at all the country has to offer.

Authors: Written and researched by Lonely Planet, Bradley Mayhew, Michael Kohn, Daniel McCrohan, and John Vincent Bellezza.

About Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel guide publisher with guidebooks to every destination on the planet, as well as an award-winning website, a suite of mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet's mission is to enable curious travellers to experience the world and to truly get to the heart of the places they find themselves in.

TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice Awards 2012 and 2013 winner in Favorite Travel Guide category

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Lonely Planet
• Release date: Jul 1, 2011
• ISBN: 9781742206370

Lonely Planet

Lonely Planet has gone on to become the world’s most successful travel publisher, printing over 100 million books. The guides are printed in nine different languages; English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Chinese and Korean. Lonely Planet enables curious travellers to experience the world and get to the heart of a place via guidebooks and eBooks to almost every destination on the planet, an award-winning website and magazine, a range of mobile and digital travel products and a dedicated traveller community.