Having had three days Kathmandu, it finally happened. Now it should go by plane to Lhasa. If you want to enter Tibet, you can not just go to the border post and say "Hi, here I am."
for entry are to make some preparations. For Tibet, one needs a visa. Currently, it is rather difficult to impossible to obtain a visa as an individual. Simple works it with a group visa. If you like, we go as a group, we have solved the problem schonmal. Otherwise, one could look for example in Kathmandu travelers with the same goal and thus form a group.
one has therefore come together as a group need to be completed in accordance with the visa applications. We must now add a lot of thoughtful and less meaningful quality data and a passport photo glued to the application. We had all done this on our first evening in Kathmandu and the applications, including, where our passports and $ 114 fee per person our guide on the spot. The entire application and then at the Chinese Embassy. You must schedule at least 2 days for the answer before then the corresponding Permit gets.
We ran everything smoothly and it was with Air China to Lhasa. The flight itself is, if one has no fear of flying, an experience. One should be careful to have left a place in the machine, as some eight-thousand and you are close enough to touch the right flies.
The entry itself is then a little more strenuous and exciting. On the group visa, there was an order of the names and everyone was now only a number. So we had to for the time in Tibet and for each check in the correct order up in a queue (I was number 8).
Some pieces of luggage were allowed to be cleared completely and it is controlled by the Chinese officials very carefully. A highlight is the reading session of the officials. Every book or magazine, no matter what language to be browsed through from beginning to end exactly legal. So, for example, a GEO magazine in our tour group inspecting sheet by sheet. One should therefore be careful not "anti-China" magazines have to with him. Something like "Seven years of Tibet" is not at all good.
Then we had it done and soon were in Tibet by our local guide (which is compulsory for travel in Tibet) with a Khata received.