Will be in Lhasa in early October. I have read the cautions about Altitude Sickness. I'm interested... ...full story at Trip Advisor
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| 13 Apr 07 |
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Tibet Airport in Lhasa »
YouTube video Location: It is located in Gounda, Shannan Region, Tibet, about 98 kilometers (about 61 miles) south of Lhasa.
Brief intro: Lhasa Gounda Airport is one of the civil airports with the highest altitude (about 3,937,007 yards) in the world. It has a... |
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Altitude Sickness flying into Lhasa » Lonely Planet Hi,I'm hoping to fly into Lhasa in October from Chengdu (been reading lots of posts here lately about getting a permit from Sim's etc). I have one question though that I haven't been able to find much information on, and that is about altitude sickness.... |
| 24 May 07 |
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Altitude sickness » Lonely Planet Hi all,I'm planning on traveling from Nepal (Kathmandu) to Tibet (Lhasa) around August this year, and i plan to organise an overland tour from Kathmandu to Lhasa. However, I'm concerned about the risk of altitude sickness- I was wondering if anyone could... |
| 22 Oct 07 |
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Altitude sickness prevention and adaptation for Lhasa » Lonely Planet I'm planing to go to Xining in a few days, stay there 2-3 nights, then take the train to Lhasa. Does anyone know if there is any reliable information on any advantage to staying at the altitude of Xining of 2700m for acclimatisation? Also, in Lhasa, are... |
| 31 Jan 07 |
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KTM to Lhasa (or Lhasa to KTM) » Lonely Planet Thanks westwood, bornfree and Losang for all the advice. Looks like most agree that's it more practical to do overland from Lhasa to KTM rather than vice versa for both financial and health (altitude sickness) reasons.So, if I book a flight from KTM to... |
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High altitude sickness in train » Lonely Planet I'm leaving to Lhasa from Beijing via train soon and really concered about altitude sickness. I had been on up to 4800m for short period of time and had really bad headahe and fatique. I heard the train will be above 5000m for more than 10 hours. So... |
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