Most people consider that winter is not a good season to visit Tibet. As a matter of fact, Tibet is not a frozen wasteland during winter, it actually has surprisingly mild climate. The daily average temperature is around 8 degrees in Lhasa, it snows once a while, and most of the days in central Tibet are sunshine all the time. However, the temperature of winter in Tibet still varies sharply between daytime and night.
Winter is also a good timing for witnessing different festivals, the colors of plateau's vegetation changes. The weather is characterized with dry air, small puffy white clouds, unbelievably blue skies, the gorgeous sunshine lights Tibet's ancient streets that filled with the Tibetan wearing traditional costume; much less visitors make this land no longer touristic, however, it will be Noisy & Lively again, when the next travel season coming; |
