Located in the west of China and bordering three gigantic mountain ranges: the Kunlun Mountains, the Himalayas the Karakoram Range (or the Karakorum), Tibet attracts domestic and foreign visitors with its landscape, religious traditions, culture, and unsolved mysteries. When mentioning this land, the first things that come to mind are snow-capped mountains, mirror-like lakes, the Potala Palace, and Buddhists.

Tibet or Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) occupies one-eighth of China’s territory. Due to its high altitude, it is often called the “Roof of the World” and the “Third Pole of the Earth”. It boasts the world’s highest peak, the splendid Mount Everest, and the Tibetan Plateau, which is the water tower of Asia and the source of many rivers: the Yangtze River, the Yellow River, the Mekong River, the Indus, the Brahmaputra, the Salween, the Irrawaddy, the Sutlej, and two tributaries of the Ganges (the Ghaghara and the Gandaki).