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Forums > Travel Yunnan > Tibet travel question

My wife (Chinese) and I (non-Chinese) will travel to Tibet this summer.

We are interested in visiting the largest cities of Lhasa and Xigatse, plus Qamdo in eastern Tibet, not necessarily all on the same trip. How to find a reliable tour agency, since I as a non-Chinese am required to sign up with one?

Recommendations based on personal experience welcome.

We are interested in standard sights, as well as getting off the beaten path.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Fedex US->China

I have a vague memory of sending stuff by FedEx before.

I seem to recall that you had to print the address on a form. I don't know what FedEx currently requires.

So I don't have first hand knowledge of whether a print-out of the

address can be used in place of writing the address out by hand.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Fedex US->China

My current mail forwarding arrangement has friends in US holding my mail. Every few months we do an internet video session where they open my mail, toss the chaff, scan the rest and send to me electronically. Stuff that can't be sent electronically (i.e., certain documents or physical objects) has to wait until my next visit back home, which may mean waiting many months to receive it.

My friends back home are willing to continue this arrangement (I pay them for their effort). However, the time has come to receive mail without them opening it.

It's a matter of personal privacy, pure and simple.

I know there are mail forwarding services in the US.

I have investigated them and find them to be expensive. Furthermore, I wish to keep my mailing address in the same state where it is presently. This pretty much rules out the existing services.

I think the best way to proceed is to ask my friends to forward my stuff by FedEx, say every few months. More expensive than scanning, but the privacy issue is now a priority.

How to handle my Chinese address.

Will it reach me sooner, more reliably if the address is written in Hanzi? Will it *ever* arrive if transliterated into alphabetical characters? Should my phone number be included somewhere on the envelope?

My friends don't know Chinese and I can't expect them to print Chinese characters.

Is there an easy way for them to print out my address and insert/apply it to the Fedex envelope?

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Thank you for this info. Always on the lookout for inexpensive ways to get around in Shangri-La. Last time I used a local driver for a morning drop off at Shika Mt, with a pick up in the afternoon for 50rmb.

Next time I'll look into bus 12. I'm wanting to hike up rather than take the gondola ride at Shika, stay overnight at Consonance Lake (灵犀湖). I'll probably have to doge the gondola people, who kept telling me, you can't hike here, you can't hike there.

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The Telegraph article was originally published in China Daily. Here is a link to the original article, "Where is Shangri-La?".

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The article has a 20 minute video of author Simon Chapman's quest to find the place which inspired HIlton's novel, Lost Horizon. Chapman's conclusion? Yading Nature Reserve in Sichuan, as written about before the area had that name, by Joseph Rock in National Geographic articles of the 1930s.

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Question for bike campers: I've always wondered how you are supposed to obtain water on an overnight bike tour. Do you carry it from town or the last hostel? I'd be leery about using water from natural streams due to livestock, pollution, etc.

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Last month my wife heard a news report on Chinese media. Government is encouraging (mandating?) that parks and tourist sites reduce entrance fees. Goal is to encourage more visitation in response to less travel in slowing economy. The price reductions are to take place all over China. Seems to be working. Starting a few weeks ago, the entrance fee to Black Dragon Pool was reduced to 50rmb.

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Entrance fee has been reduced by 30%, down to 45rmb. Half that for seniors. Guards at entrance station emphasized to me that ticket is good for one day only. Don't know how strict they will be on that. Earlier this year I entered the gorge twice on the same ticket a week and a half apart. We shall see.

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