Suppose you are coming into Tibet via a flight from any other major cities of China. It would be best if you had the permit in hand when boarding the plane. You will need to find out and discuss how there will manage to hand you your Tibet permit. In most of the cases, Your permit will be delivered to your hotel if you are staying overnight in other cities before flying to Lhasa. Suppose you are not staying at any cities but taking transits in other cities. Your permit will be delivered to you at the airport. We want to recommend you to do the transit it in Chengdu as there is plenty of flight to Lhasa and it is easier for us to send it to you at the airport.

You must ask the travel agency for the phone number of the delivery person, so you can make a call if he is not visible. What we do most of the time, We would urge all the travellers to take transits at the Chengdu city, where my elder brother would make the delivery to them.

If you are taking a train to Tibet you do not need the Original permit in hand, you can take a print out your permit from the mail and show it to them while boarding the train. You guide (me, if you are using my service) will be waiting for you at the train station with the Tibet travel permit in hand.

The last criteria are if you are coming from Nepal. Whether you are coming overland to Tibet or flight to Tibet from Lhasa, you will not have a permit in hand until you reach Tibet. Remember, you need to do Visa in Nepal if you are coming from Nepal. Please do not apply for a visa from any place other than Nepal. Once when you reach in Nepal, we will send you the visa invitation to our associate in Nepal. He will have to go to the Chinese Embassy in Nepal to get a group Visa three days before your real day of departure. Please write them an email sometime before your Tour. Some of my friends did send them emails and told me they do reply to the email.

But to cut all the extra work and extra days in Nepal while applying for the Visa. We would suggest you take transit in Chengdu and your travel agency would have your permit deliver at the airport.