Many foreign travelers asked their travel agency in Tibet to mail their Tibet Travel Permit to their home before they depart from their country. But it is almost impossible, because there are only several days after your travel agency get customers’ Tibet Travel Permit from Tibet Tourism Bureau. Therefore, travel agency in Lhasa can only mail the original permit to one of cities in China.
There is three situations:
1. Travel from Kathmandu to Lhasa
Foreign travelers needn’t get their Tibet Travel Permit in advance. They just need ask travel agency in Lhasa to help them apply for Group Visa Invitation Letter and ask travel agency in Kathmandu to help them apply for Tibet Group Visa from Chinese Embassy in Kathmandu, Nepal. Finally, they can board the flight with holding their passport, Group Visa and flight ticket.
2. Travel from one of cities in China by train
Nowadays, there are trains to Lhasa from Beijing, Chengdu, Xining, Xian, Lanzhou, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chongqing, etc. If you board the train from Xian, Chongqing and Lanzhou, you need hold the original permit, so travel agency in Lhasa need mail it to you. If from other cities, you just need the copy of your Tibet Travel Permit, so you can ask Lhasa travel agency to send you the scanned copy of your Tibet Travel Permit, and you print it in color and then hold it to board the train to Lhasa.
3. Travel from one of cities in China by flight
No matter which city you will fly to Lhasa from, you need hold the original permit to board the flight. So Lhasa travel agency need mail the original permit to you.
The best way is that you arrange one night hotel in one of cities in China, and then ask Lhasa Travel Agency to mail your Tibet Travel Permit to your hotel. When you arrive at your hotel, you can pick it up at the hotel reception.
If you do not plan to arrange one night hotel, you need arrange enough time of flight layover. And your travel agency in Lhasa need find a man to transfer your Tibet Travel Permit to you. The method has a certain risk. If Lhasa travel agency can not find a man to deliver the permit or he can not deliver the permit to you on time, you can not board the flight and may miss the flight. So, many travel agencies in Lhasa ask clients to book one night hotel in China and then fly to Lhasa, Tibet.
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