Mbak Tari barangkali bisa baca dari source yang sama...tapi recheck lagi please;
http://kekexili.typepad.com/life_on_the_tibetan_plate/2007/02/travel_in_tibet.html Tibet Travel Permit There is no such thing as a "Tibet Visa". All foreigners going to the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) need to have a Tibet Travel Permit along with a Chinese visa. Since June 2008, a full tour of Lhasa must be booked in advance before you are allowed to go to Lhasa. The Tibet Travel Permit is not placed in your passport, but is a two page piece of paper that should be given to you. The first page is the actual permit, while the second page is the group travel list. If you are traveling by yourself to Lhasa, then just your name will be listed, but if you are traveling with a group of 2 or more all names will be listed and you will share 1 permit. This is the general permit that you need to enter anywhere in the TAR. There have been many rumors that this permit would be done away with after the start of the train to Lhasa, but as of today it is still needed more than ever. If you fly, train or bus into Lhasa, you will need to have this permit. Technically, this permit costs a little over $6USD (Y50), but nobody actually pays that price. Here is why: The Tibet travel permit can only be issued through the Tibet Tourism Bureau (TTB) which is based in Lhasa. All permits come from the TTB. Most travel agencies in Beijing, Chengdu, Xining, Xi'an, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chongqing and Lanzhou get this permit through the TTB in Lhasa. Since these cities are all far away from Lhasa, they usually have to have a local travel agency in Lhasa help them. The local travel agency in Lhasa takes a copy of your passport and Chinese visa information and brings them to the TTB to arrange your permit. These copies are sent to the Lhasa office by the local office you are using (ie. in Beijing, Chengdu, Xining, etc). The local agency in Lhasa does not do this for free. They usually charge between Y150 and Y300 per person to do this. The travel agency you use in Chengdu, Beijing, Xining, etc to arrange the permit for you also does not do this for free. They charge an additional Y150 to Y400. So this is why a permit that costs Y50 ends up costing Y400 to Y800 or more. The travel agency you use to arrange your permit will give you a copy of the permit. The actual copy is usually kept at the Tibet Tourism Bureau in Lhasa, however some airports are now requiring the actual permit. Make sure the travel agency gives you a copy of this permit and make sure that your name and passport information is correct!! Some people are checked for the permit while others aren't (in the same way that some speeders in the US are pulled over while others are not). Many travelers will tell you that they had no problems traveling to Lhasa without a Tibet Travel Permit or that they were never checked. Good for them! Since the reopening of Lhasa in June 2008, airports and train stations have become much more strict in checking permits. It will be very difficult to go to Lhasa without a permit.Just because you weren't checked for a permit doesn't mean they aren't required!! People are almost always checked when flying into Lhasa though you could also be checked taking the train. If you are caught trying to sneak into the TAR, you can expect to be detained at the police station, fined and sent back to where ever you were before (ie. Golmud, Derge, Zhongdian, etc). Once in Lhasa, you will probably not be checked for your permit, but you will be checked before boarding your train or flight to Lhasa. The days of going to Lhasa without a permit are probably over, at least for a while. Keep your permit with you just in case something unusual happens. For information on taking the train from Xining to Lhasa email me at (currently all travel to Lhasa must be done in a group): [email protected] in Xining --- On Thu, 6/25/09, Ms tari rahardjo <[email protected]> wrote: From: Ms tari rahardjo <[email protected]> Subject: [indobackpacker] (Ralat) : Sharing : Ke Tibet murah? To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, June 25, 2009, 9:05 PM Hallo kawans, Chengdu sudah hilang dari route AirAsia dari KL. Tapi rupanya masih ada kota yg juga jalur KA ke Lhasa, yaitu Shanghai dan Guangzhou. Tapi melihat di peta http://www.nordling .nu/schaefer/ chinamap. gif jaraknya bukan main! Boleh saja naik KA utk berangkat, tp pulang rasanya harus naik pesawat spy waktu tdk habis di jalan. Mungkin ada teman yang tau budget airlines dari Lhasa ke salah satu destinasi AirAsia China? Berapa biayanya? Yang saya paham bahasanya cuma web Spring Airlines http://www.china- sss.com/ tapi tiketnya masih mahal buat saya, USD 220-420 one way, Lhasa ke salah satu destinasi Air Asia Apakah ada kendaraan umum ke tourist destinations di Tibet? Naik mobil bukan pilihan saya karena gak bs merasakan jadi penduduk lokalnya. Apakah ada hostel yg bisa dibooking online yang recommended sudah ditinggali teman2? Menurut http://www.seat61. com/China. htm kita bisa beli langsung train ticket di stasiunnya tanpa bantuan travel agent. Tapi kalo sedang Spring Festival 1 Oktober trainnya selalu penuh jadi harus beli in advanced. Atau go show saja......Beli tiket AirAsia one way ke Shanghai atau Guangzhou, coba beli tiket, kalo gak berhasil ya jalan2 di China. Beli tiket pulang AirAsia dari sana aja, stlh pny bayangan kapan pulang. Rio, Tibet sudah dibuka sejak 2008 utk turis, bisa dibaca di http://kekexili. typepad.com/ life_on_the_ tibetan_plate/ 2007/02/travel_ in_tibet. html Jadi gak usah takut dicegah oleh pemerintah China. Disitu juga dicantumkan bahwa kita bs jalan secara solo ke TIbet, tapi TTB nya bakal dikemplang mahal oleh travel agent. Nah, info mengurus TTB sendiri ke official office nya yang saya belum pny datanya..... Saya belum baca2 berita terbaru di forum thorntree/frommmers .....jadi blm bisa memastikan secara pasti apakah kita memang bisa pergi solo tanpa travel agent. Mungkin ada teman yg sudah baca dan bisa sharing? Tapi untuk amannya, saya akan telpon kedubes China tanya TTB pake nama beda aja deh.....hehehe. ......... (Eits.... ada staff kedubes China gak disini?) Salam, Tari YM ID : kuntarini_rahsilawa t...@yahoo. com http://kuntarini. multiply. com http://profiles. friendster. com/kuntarini
