Getting to Lhoka

The airport of Tibet, Lhasa Gongkar Airport is located in Lhoka Prefecture. The airport is just over 96 Kilometer to the main town of the prefecture, The Tsedang Town. All the inter and intra prefecture roads in Tibet are paved. The region is accessible from all the region of Tiet Via road journey. Now the new express high way from the Lhasa to Tseadng via the Ganden Monastery monastery reduce the travel journey from 4 hours to a half an hours.

So far there is no train running through the Lhokha Prefecture. But in the coming year, there will be railway lines running through the Lhokha prefecture once the Tibet-Sichuan railway line is completed. Right now the trains are only available until the Lhasa and Shigatse.

Lhasa city airport in the western end of the prefecture. this makes the prefecture access to all the flight to Tibet as it is to the Lhasa prefecture. There are 30 different daily flights from other parts of China to Tibet and two daily flight from Kathmandu to Lhasa. The flights are coming in from Chengdu, Beijing, Shanghai, Xian, Xining, Shangri la, Chongqing and Guangzhou to Tibet. The most number of flights are available from Chengdu to Lhasa.

High Altitude Sickness and Elevation

The average elevation of the Lhokha Prefecture in 3700 Meters above sea level, making it one of the lowerest of all regions in entire Tibet. It is recommended for travellers to start your Tibet travel from the prefecture if you have a group member of the elderly. It is very common for travellers to suffer from the high Altitude sickness upon arrival in Lhokha. It might take a day or days to acclimatizations in Lhokha. For some, it can be severe and for some, it could be little breathlessness while climbing the stairs.

There are many locally produced Medicine for the high elevation; Some local Tibetan Medicine. We are in no position to recommend the medicine, But we would highly recommend consulting their doctors about the plans to go to Tibet and bring their own medicine. We want to suggest you the same.

Tibet Travel Permit for Lhokha Prefecture

Though we will take care of all the required Tibet Travel permit for Lhokha Prefecture. If you would like to know in detail about the permit requirement to Prefecture. Here is the information.

If you are visiting the Lhokha prefecture, Alien’s Travel permit in addition to the primary Tibet Travel Permit. It usually takes about 12 days in getting that basic permit done. We will make your permit before your Arrival in Tibet and the Aliens permit will be applied by your tour guide upon arriving at the Tsedang Town.

But you must keep in your mind the permit situation is different as per the mode to transportation into Tibet as follow: