Tibet

Tibet has fascinated visitors for centuries. Its remoteness and inaccessibility have fed the Western imagination.
In addition to its religious architecture (Potala, Jokhang, Tashilumpo), Tibet offers the emptiness of its spaces: the exceptional beauty of the high plateaus, the power of the mountains, the light of the altitudes. Here, we discover the warmth of a people rooted in tradition and imbued with an unrivalled religious fervor, fighting half-heartedly against the false Chinese brother.
Since the invasion of China in 1950, it’s impossible to talk about Tibet and its people without mentioning the dramas that plague them. The 14th Dalai Lama preferred exile to humiliation.
Since then, central Tibet has been renamed the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) and integrated into the People’s Republic of China. The other historically Tibetan regions in the east and northeast, already governed by the Chinese, were attached to the provinces of Qinghai and Sichuan.

By the end of the 1970s, only a dozen of Tibet’s 5,000 pre-annexation temples and monasteries remained. Since 1981, over a hundred monasteries have been rebuilt and restored, often on the initiative of the people.
The Dalai Lama has encouraged travelers to visit Tibet, which, paradoxically, has never been so accessible. Tibet offers travelers plenty to satisfy their desire for something different: wide-open spaces worth exploring on foot, mountain bike or horseback, where encounters with the last great transhumant herders are unforgettable moments, not to mention the monasteries and their processions of Buddhist monks.