Precautions! Things to pay attention to when traveling to Lhasa for the first time! Do you know these things?

When Shuying and Lhasa met for the first time, they first felt the warm sunshine and the strong religious atmosphere.

Lhasa's nickname, Sunlight City, is just like its nickname. Lhasa is a city favored by sunlight. Three-quarters of the 365 days a year are bathed in warm sunshine.

Lhasa is a city with a strong religious and cultural atmosphere and is the holy land of Tibetan Buddhism. The locals are widely influenced by religious culture, and Buddhist believers can be seen everywhere.

If you have never been to Tibet, you will have a good impression of Lhasa, Tibet, and you are also yearning for it.

Lhasa is indeed beautiful, but beauty and imperfections coexist in every place, with both good and bad sides.

It is our first time to travel to Tibet, and our first stop is Lhasa. What are the things we need to pay attention to when we enter Tibet?

Lhasa is part of Tibet and the core of Tibet. It has convenient transportation, prosperous streets, thriving tourism industry, and religious beliefs that have been passed down for thousands of years...

The average altitude of Tibet is more than 4,000 meters, and the altitude of Lhasa is 3,650 meters, which is lower than the average altitude of Tibet. However, it is inevitable that some tourists will suffer from altitude sickness.

What should we pay attention to when experiencing high reaction?

When traveling to plateau areas, you may experience symptoms such as dizziness, headache, nausea, chest tightness, shortness of breath, difficulty breathing, etc. Tourists with mild symptoms only need to rest for about 1 day to return to normal, while tourists with more severe symptoms will need 2 to 4 days. Time to restore the body.

Oxygen inhalation can quickly help tourists relieve discomfort, but it is not a permanent solution. It is recommended to inhale oxygen if the symptoms are more severe. Tourists with mild symptoms should rest first and take medicine to relieve discomfort.

Things not to do! !

Do not take a shower or wash your hair on the first day after arriving in Lhasa! Taking a bath and washing your hair consume a lot of oxygen, and if you don’t keep warm after bathing, you can easily catch a cold.

Never do strenuous exercise! I have just arrived in Tibet and my body has not yet adapted to the environment in the plateau area. Vigorous exercise can easily cause altitude sickness. At the same time, we would like to remind couples who have just arrived in Tibet to be careful not to make noise at night, this...

What is the climate and environment like in Tibet?

Tibet has spectacular and majestic scenery. The high-altitude environment has prevented Tibet from being polluted by modern urban development. The unique geographical environment has given Tibet many sacred mountains, holy lakes, forests, glaciers, grasslands...

Tibet's climate environment is severely cold in the northwest and warm and humid in the southeast, with sufficient sunshine throughout the year and low precipitation.

The season with the highest temperature in Tibet is summer. The climate is warmer from June to August, but it is also the rainy season in Tibet. During the rainy season, Tibet has more rain at night.

The overall altitude of Tibet is higher, and the higher the altitude, the lower the temperature. For example, the Everest Base Camp and Namtso in Tibet have low temperatures all year round.

Be sure to wear sun protection!

Tibet has abundant sunshine and strong ultraviolet rays. Tibet has mostly sunny days all year round, and ultraviolet rays are strong. When playing outdoors without taking any protective measures, your face or exposed skin will be exposed to direct sunlight.

When traveling to Tibet, bring high-power (spf50+) sunscreen, as well as sunglasses, a sun hat and a parasol.

Be sure to keep warm!

Tibet has a high altitude and a large temperature difference between day and night. The temperature difference between day and night in Tibet is very obvious. The temperature difference between day and night in Tibet can be more than ten degrees. Therefore, when traveling in Tibet, you can experience the temperature of at least two seasons in one day.

Traveling to Tibet requires two seasons of clothing, and sometimes even three seasons of clothing.

If you travel to Tibet in summer, Lhasa is very warm during the day, so you can wear thin clothes. You need to wear spring and autumn coats in Tibet at night, and you need to wear winter down jackets when going to Everest Base Camp. Friends who want to go to Tibet can ask Shuying (WeChat ID: 1682268) to learn about the detailed clothing guide to Tibet.

Be sure to bring an umbrella when playing outdoors!

Tibet has abundant rainfall in summer. The scenery in Tibet in summer is beautiful and the temperature is very comfortable. The only drawback is that Tibet in summer is a rainy season.

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During the rainy season, the road conditions in some sections of Tibet are poor, and the roads become muddy after it rains. Pay attention to safety when traveling during the rainy season. It is forbidden to visit remote scenic spots, and you must bring an umbrella when traveling.

Things to do in Lhasa

1. Take a walk around the road

When you open the window in Lhasa, you will see the completely blue sky and the dazzling sun. You will realize that you are in the city closest to the sky.

What makes you want to touch this city the most is the faith here.

People who have no Buddhist beliefs, for some reason, come to Lhasa and are willing to follow what the locals believe.

Tibet's persistence in faith is unique in the world. It is a huge energy field that brings together the prayers and practices of countless people from ancient times to the present.

If you want to follow the footsteps of faith, then you must take a walk.

In Lhasa, there are six famous prayer paths. These prayer paths do not have specially designated areas, but are just the directions agreed upon by the pilgrims.

Believers burned mulberry and prayed along the way. They stopped one after another, burning incense in front of each mulberry stove, adding butter to each butter lamp, worshiping devoutly, and walking as if they were walking in their own Buddhist temple.

Their faith is in their hands. They hold rosary beads in their left hand and a prayer wheel in their right hand. As people turn, the prayer wheel in their hands also turns. There are scriptures in the wheel. As they walk and shake, the wheel turns in one circle, as if they have recited the sutra once. arts.

I walked on the prayer path over and over again, lighting butter lamps, praying devoutly with my hands together, and imagining my own afterlife and this life.

On the prayer path, in addition to the local Tibetans, there are also many red-robed monks. They may be young or old, and they are an indispensable sight on this road.

Daily prayer is as essential as eating.

When you feel tired from doing the menstruation, you sit on a bench by the side of the road and rest for a while, and then start the next round of walking when you have enough energy.

2. Go to the temple to worship

There are many temples in Lhasa, such as Ramoche Temple, Sera Temple, Drepung Temple, Zhaji Temple, etc., which can be the destination of worship.

Ramoche Temple

The Ramoche Temple is located to the north of Bajiao Street, less than a kilometer away from the Jokhang Temple.

Compared with the Jokhang Temple, the scale and popularity of the Ramoche Temple are much inferior. It looks more ancient and mysterious.

Ramoche Temple has been burned several times in history, and most of the existing buildings were rebuilt later. Only the temple on the ground floor is an early building, and the 10 pillars in the temple can vaguely show the Tubo style.

Ramoche Temple has many cultural relics, including an eight-year-old statue of Sakyamuni and numerous Buddha statues and thangkas.

There is a road outside the temple gate. It is quieter and less prosperous than Barkhor Street, but here you can see the most authentic urban life in Lhasa. You can see Lhasa people shuttle between sunrise and sunset on this ordinary and indispensable road, showing their Simple, natural life.

In the Ramoche Temple, worshipers lined up quietly and silently offered butter to every passing butter lamp. Even though the worship queue was long and slow, they were not impatient.

They held the hada in their hands, lowered their waists slightly, and lined up to enter the Buddhist temple with pious eyes.

It is said that a lamp is a hope, so they lit one lamp after another devoutly, bathed in the butter lamp and the light from the skylight at noon, and felt the warmth of entering the Buddha's land.

Offering butter lamps is as common as three meals a day in their lives, but it is more important than three meals a day.

Sera Monastery

There is a beautiful story about the origin of the name of the Sera Temple. It is said that the Sera Temple was built in a place where wild roses were in full bloom, so it was named "Sela Temple". This is the last temple built among the six major Gelug sect temples, but it is the most popular one.

There are tens of thousands of Vajra Buddha statues preserved in Sera Monastery, most of which are made locally in Tibet, and many are bronze Buddha statues brought from the mainland or India.

The most famous statue is the Horsehead King Vajra Statue, which is located in the Dharma Protector Temple of Jizha Cang on the fourth floor. Go straight into the main hall and pass a row of small halls, which is the innermost one. Locals would stick their heads into a small shrine and touch the base of the statue with their heads.

When I stepped into the temple, I felt a sense of sanctity and unconsciously lowered my voice, fearing that I would disturb the gods.

There are many monks in the temple. They stand in front of the Buddha statues in the main hall, or meditate and chant sutras. Their voices float on the roof, making people's restless hearts instantly calm.

Be sure to watch the Bible Debate when you go to Sera Monastery! At three o'clock in the afternoon, we went to Sera Monastery to watch the debate. As a loud bell rang in the temple, we saw many monks in red robes filing in to the towering ancient trees. , in the debate room covered with gravel.

The standing monk pulled the rosary on his hand and asked the sitting monk questions with the help of Buddha's courage and wisdom. His movements were exaggerated and his expression was serious without any show.

We may not understand what the monks are saying, but with their serious energy, fast and fluent words, and high spirits, their thoughts may have gone through thousands of changes, and their beliefs have been strengthened again and again in the excitement. sublimation.

I forgot to remind you that Sera Monastery is also a place to seek marriage. If you are not in love yet, you can really go and seek marriage.

3. Have a cup of sweet tea in the sweet tea house

Small teahouses can be seen everywhere in the streets and alleys of Lhasa. They are the most popular places for local people to relax and chat. Teahouses are also the most market-like places in Lhasa.

In a small teahouse, you can get your own cup, find a seat, order a pot of milk tea, and spend an afternoon leisurely. You can even make some simple and kind-hearted friends in the teahouse.

The teahouses in Lhasa are the most popular places. When the first ray of sunshine shines on the pillars of the teahouse, it means that the teahouse has officially opened for business.

With a pot or a cup, even one person can spend this long morning.

If drinking Longjing in West Lake is to drink the taste of the lake and mountains that are bred by the seasons, then drinking sweet tea in Lhasa is to drink the taste of the nation that is evaporated from the region. Tibetans have always been hospitable, and they never shy away from their warm-heartedness.

Tuchuan Outdoor (WeChat ID: tchw101) recommends that when you are tired and sit on the roadside, a kind Tibetan old man will scoop you a bowl of steaming milk tea. The moment you drink the warm milk tea , all the fatigue will disappear.

You will understand what Lhasa is like only when you come! Don't just go and hear about it, you need to go! seeing is believing.