Travel News

• World's first yak museum opens in Lhasa

  Yak Museum of Tibet, the first yak-themed museum in the world, opened to the public here on Saturday.

• Tibetans celebrate Lhabab Festival

  The scent of burning juniper branches filled the morning air in Lhasa on Thursday as the annual Lhabab Duechen – Buddha Descending Festival - began. Monasteries and temples welcomed more pilgrims and tourists than usual and businesses around the religious sites did a roaring trade.

• Blue Horse Art Exhibition opens in Wenjiang Sichuan

  The Blue Horse Art Exhibition opened on Nov 5 at the Jinma International Equestrianism Sports Park in Wenjiang in the city of Chengdu, Sichuan province on Nov 7 2014.

• Thangkas an oasis of artistic creativity

  The Tibet Academy of Thangka Painting, located between the bustling Tomzigkhang and Barkhor shopping malls in the center of Lhasa, appears at first sight to be an oasis of calm.

• Tibet Basomtso Lake tourism to improve livelihood of villagers

  Basomtso Lake Scenic Area in Gongbo'gyamda county, Nyingchi prefecture in Tibet autonomous region, Oct 22. The scenic area covers 8,000,000 square meters, and has received a total investment of 4.38 billion yuan ($716 million) for future construction by 2020.

• Chengdu's European connections

  As the regional transportation hub and one of the major growth engines in western China, Chengdu is now looking to Europe for more business, trade and cultural exchanges.

• Wenjiang to build traditional Chinese medicine science park

  Wenjiang's government signed a cooperation contract on Sept 28 with Chengdu University of TCM (CDUTCM) and Chengdu Huachuan Group to co-construct a university science park in Wenjiang district in Chengdu, Sichuan province.

• Pilgrims put faith in Tibet railway

  Among bustling crowds in this busy season for such pilgrimages, the 42-year-old herdsman visited Jokhang Temple in Lhasa, the regional capital of Tibet, for the first time before taking another train to Tashilhunpo Monastery in Xigaze, traditional seat of the Panchen Lama.

• New airport under construction on Qinghai-Tibet plateau

  New airport under construction on Qinghai-Tibet plateau

• Organization to help boost Tibet's tourism industry

  A chamber of tourism was established in Lhasa of Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region on Sunday to help enhance the region's tourism industry.