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pildix
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06.28.2005 11:11 am Post subject:
URGENT - VISA FOR TRAVEL TO TIBET |
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Hi everyone,
Just when you thought it was hard enough.....I'm having a nightmare getting a visa for TIbet. It seems here in the UK I can quite easily obtaina visa for China but NOT Tibet!!
What??
Can anyone help me out? I'm off to KTM in 3 weeks and need to get a visa for Lhasa before I leave.
The fun continues.....
Keep safe, take care all.
Kindest, Phil |
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yagmur
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07.05.2005 4:24 am Post subject:
Re:URGENT - VISA FOR TRAVEL TO TIBET |
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That's normal, there is no visa for Tibet (you need a Chinese one anyway) but a travel permit. You can obtain that permit once in Chengdu (Sichuan).
For that, you must buy from a travel agency a plane ticket Chengdu-Lhassa (approx 1500 Yuan). The same travel agency will arrange your travel permit for smth like 600 to 800 Yuan.
If you stay at Traffic Hotel in Chengdu, there are 2 or 3 travel agencies in the premises with all the same price.
It may take between 2 to 4 days to have everything in hand.
I think you can also start the procedure from Kunming or Chonqinq but I do not have the informations.
Good journey
Lolo |
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guest
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07.05.2005 4:26 am Post subject:
Re:URGENT - VISA FOR TRAVEL TO TIBET |
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It depends wether you're going to China first. It's very possible that some hostels -who deal with these questions all the time-provide some kind of travel/visa package that manages to circumvent the Tibet Visa issue. The gueshouse I stayed in in Chengdu had a similar deal. Don't take this as gospel mind, but the gap between the official code and the reality isn't quite hard and fast. A backpacker's hostel for info in short, is your best bet. Good Luck.
John |
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guest2
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07.05.2005 4:27 am Post subject:
Re:URGENT - VISA FOR TRAVEL TO TIBET |
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Every time I have been to China (I haven't been to Tibet) I've been asked to write down where I'm going. Isn't it as simple as if you have a Chinese visa and have specified Tibet in your visa application that you then are free to go to Tibet?
Matz |
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yagmur
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07.05.2005 4:27 am Post subject:
Re:URGENT - VISA FOR TRAVEL TO TIBET |
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No,
Tibet is a no go area without a travel permit.
You are sometime checked while visiting sites especially Everest base camp.
While I went to Tibet, I stated on my visa application Chengdu and get a "normal" Chinese visa.
Normally, plane ticket is Chengdu-Lhasa is not issued without the permit.
Extra information for Phil, you can start from Kathmandu in Nepal. Be aware that now is the moonson and therefore some road are cut off and plane very unreliable.
L |
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