Tibet Travel Permit (TTP)

 

Tibet is one of the most desired travel destinations. Unlike many other regions, traveling to Tibet need a travel document namely Tibet Travel Permit.

Tibet Travel Permit is very easy to get with the help of Tibet Travelers. 

To make it convenient for all the Travelers, Tibet Travelers would like to share the full information regarding Tibet Travel Permit.

Few important questions regarding Tibet Travel Permit 

1. What is Tibet Travel Permit?

2. Can Travelers get Tibet Travel Permit by themselves?

3. How much Tibet Travel Permit cost?

4. What are the documents required to obtain a Tibet Travel Permit?

5. From where Tibet Travelers can get Tibet Travel Permit?

6. How long does it take to obtain a Tibet Travel Permit?

7. How long in advance can Travelers get the Tibet Travel Permit?

8. Which are places allowed to visit with the Tibet Travel Permit?

9. What is the expiration date of the Tibet Travel Permit?

10. Can Tibet Travel Permit be available to mail outside of China?

11. Do Travelers need the original Tibet Travel Permit for a flight to Tibet from other cities of China?

12. Do Travelers need the original Tibet Travel Permit for a train to Tibet from other cities of China?

13. Where can Travelers pick the Tibet Travel Permit while entering Tibet from Nepal via flight or overland from the border?

14. Can Tibet Travel Permit be possible to extend?

15. While traveling in Tibet, who takes care of the Tibet Travel Permit?

16. Do Travelers need Tibet Travel Permit for leaving Tibet?

17. What is the Alien Travel Permit?

Different Travel agencies have shared different information regarding Tibet Travel Permit making it complicated for Travelers.

Tibet Travelers would like to break the chain of complicated by making it as easy as we can to share the full information regarding Tibet Travel Permit.

1. What is Tibet Travel Permit?

They are two documents Travelers will require to travel in Tibet. China visa and Tibet Travel Permit.

Tibet Travel Permit is one of the documents required for Travelers to travel in Tibet. 

2. Can Travelers get Tibet Travel Permit by themselves?

Travelers cannot get Tibet Travel Permit on their own. 

Tibet Travel Permit can be only obtained with the help of a local Travel agency in Lhasa, Tibet.

3. How much Tibet Travel Permit cost?

Tibet Travel Permit is free of charge. Travel agencies are not allowed to sell only Tibet Travel Permit. Travelers must be on an organized Tour. 

Kangshung Valley Trek at the east face of Mount Everest

4. What are the documents required to obtain a Tibet Travel Permit?

The documents required to obtain Tibet Travel Permit are the China visa scan and Passport scan.

No China visa means no Tibet Travel Permit. How to get China visa?

They are two ways to get China visa since they are two ways to enter Tibet.

1. How to travel to Tibet from China?

2. How to travel to Tibet from Nepal?

If Travelers want to know more information about how to get to China or Nepal from your home country?

Even though only from China and Nepal Travelers are allowed to travel in Tibet but to make it more convenient for all the Travelers, Tibet Travelers has shared how to get to Tibet from around 15 Nations. 

5. From where Tibet Travelers Travel agency can get Tibet Travel Permit?

Tibet Travel Permit can only be obtained from the Tibet Tourism Office in Lhasa, located in the western part of the town, near the Golden Yak. 

6. How long does it take to obtain a Tibet Travel Permit?

For Tours to Mount Kailash, Mount Everest, Kangsung Valley, Rawok Lake will take around 25-30 days advance booking to obtain the Tibet Travel Permit. 

For other Tours will take around 15-20 days advance booking to obtain the Tibet Travel Permit.

Normally it is much safer to book the Tour in advance. 

7. How long in advance can Travelers get the Tibet Travel Permit?

Even though Tibet Tourism Office accept the papers for Tibet Travel Permit around a month in advance but only around 5-10 days before the trip, Tibet Travelers will get the Tibet Travel Permit, so Travelers will get the Tibet Travel Permit around 5-10 days before the entering date to Tibet. 

8. Which are the places allowed to visit with the Tibet Travel Permit?

Not all the places in Tibet are available for Travelers to visit. Some areas in Western Tibet Changtang prefecture, some areas in Tsetang prefecture, and some areas in Nyingchi prefecture, some areas in Nagchu, and some areas in Chamdo are not available for Travelers at the moment.

Almost all other places are open for Travelers, but Travelers are allowed to visit only the sites which are written on the Tibet Travel Permit, so we recommend Travelers to let us know about all the places Travelers prefer to visit Tibet. 

9. What is the expiration date of the Tibet Travel Permit?

The day-by-day itinerary routine will be written while obtaining the Tibet Travel Permit so Tibet Travel Permit will expire when the tour to Tibet itinerary duration expires.

10. Can Tibet Travel Permit be available to mail outside of China?

Only the scan of the Tibet Travel Permit can be mailed outside of China, but the original Tibet Travel Permit is not available to mail outside of China. 

11. Do Travelers need the original Tibet Travel Permit for a flight to Tibet from other cities of China?

Yes, Travelers will need the original Tibet Travel Permit while boarding the flight to Tibet from other cities of China so we recommend all the Travelers to spend a night in one of the cities of China to pick the Tibet Travel Permit from the Travelers prefers hotel reception.

Tibet Travelers will mail the permit to the hotel reception by asking the address and phone number of the hotel from the Travelers. How to buy a flight ticket to Tibet from other cities of China?

12. Do Travelers need the original Tibet Travel Permit for a train to Tibet from other cities of China?

No, Travelers can travel to Tibet via train with the scan print color or clear black and white version of the Tibet Travel Permit.

Travelers can also buy or pick the train ticket with the help of a passport and scan print version of the Tibet Travel Permit. How to buy a train ticket to Tibet from other cities of China?

13. Where can Travelers pick the Tibet Travel Permit while entering Tibet from Nepal via flight or overland from the border?

Tibet Travelers Tour Guide will have the Tibet Travel Permit in hand while waiting for the Travelers at Lhasa Gonggar airport or Kyirong town between Nepal Border to help Travelers get into Tibet from the military offices.

Travelers will need the China group visa in hand, which will be issued with the help of our friend in Nepal. How to get a China Tibet group visa from Nepal?

14. Can Tibet Travel Permit be possible to extend?

Once the Tibet Travel Permit is obtained. It is difficult to extend or add more places in the Tibet Travel Permit since obtaining Tibet Travel Permit needs an advance booking.

 

 

15. While traveling in Tibet, who takes care of the Tibet Travel Permit?

Tibet Travelers Tour Guide will take care of the Tibet Travel Permit while traveling in Tibet.

Tour Guide will do the registration at hotels and checkpoints. 

16. Do Travelers need Tibet Travel Permit for leaving Tibet?

Travelers who are traveling to Nepal will need the Tour Guide and Tibet Travel Permit for boarding the flight to Kathmandu or crossing the border from Kyirong town. 

Travelers who are traveling to China will need the Tour Guide and scan of the Tibet Travel Permit or original Tibet Travel Permit at the airport. 

17. What is the Alien Travel Permit?

Alien Travel Permit is another permit Travelers will require while traveling to Sakya, Mount Everest base camp, Tingri town, Kyirong town, Mount Kailash and Rawok lake, Samye monastery. 

Alien Travel Permit costs 50 RMB per person, and it will be taken care of by Tibet Travelers Tour Guide with the help of Travelers original Passport and Tibet Travel Permit from Lhasa. 

Alien Travel Permit are mostly obtained in Shigatse, Ngari or Darchen town, Nyingchi and Tsetang.

Conclusion 

Traveling to Tibet is a beautiful dream of my Travelers.

Unlike many other regions in our world. Tibet Travel Permit plays the biggest role in the documents required to travel to Tibet.

Passport scan and the China visa scan are the two primary essential documents required to obtain the Tibet Travel Permit. 

This is the full information regarding Tibet Travel Permit (TTP) 

Tibet Travelers would like to welcome all the Travelers for travel to Tibet and witness the beauties of Tibet with Authentic Tibetan Tibet Travel Expert the Tibet Travelers.

Thank you for reading our article on Tibet Travel Permit. 

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