Please be noticed that Chinese Visa and Tibet Permit are two things totally different.
To enter Tibet, or any part of China excepting Hong Kong and Macao, a Chinese visa is necessary. You’d better obtain it before leaving your home country.
When applying for a visa as an independent traveler, your application might be rejected if you mention that you plan to visit Tibet. There is a trick that when you apply for the Chinese visa, you don’t need to tell the embassy officer that you have the plan for traveling to Tibet; instead you can inform them you want to travel to somewhere else of China such as Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu etc. or else the application would become complicated and arduous.
Please Be Noticed
•When entering China you’d better have a visa covering the expected duration of stay. Getting extensions inside China can involve delays and other difficulties.
•You need to apply for a Two times or Multiple-entry visa when you need to leave and re-enter mainland China. Please be noticed that, even when you leave for Hong Kong or Macau from mainland China, you still need to have a Two times or Multiple-entry visa.
Tibet Permits (Tibet Visa) Categories
There are four levels of bureaucracy you need to jump through to travel in Tibet: a Chinese visa to entry China, a Tibet Tourism Bureau (TTB) permit or the entry permit. Alien’s Travel Permit, If you travel to certain regions of Tibet, Military Permission and Frontier Permission are also required. Beware that Tibet travel permit situation is subject to rapid and unpredictable change. Contact us directly to get the latest Tibet permit situation within 12 hours.
•TTB (Tibet Entry Permit)
•PSB (Alien’s Travel Permit)
•Military Permission
Please Be Noticed
•You have to tell us your real occupation as journalists and people who involved in political matters could be revoked (diplomats, journalists, and government officials who should travel to Tibet under the arrangement by the Foreign Affairs Office).
•Please note that if you do not book any tour from us, we can not help you get the permits. No travel agency could provide “permit-only” service. A must service includes vehicle and guide.
•After having a permit, we could buy you the air tickets, and you can pass the check-in at the airport and board the plane.
•Only the guide could hold the permit after you establish yourself on Tibet land. You are not allowed to bring with it and travel to anywhere you want.
•Generally speaking, it will cost us 3-5 working days to get the Tibet permit if you could supply the full necessary documents in time.
at 9:28 am
To whom it may concern,
i am currently living in China and I am on a residence permit.If I am interested in going on a tour to Tibet,how would this affect my visa status.How much is it to visit Tibet for up to 30 days?Can you also organize onward travel to Nepal? Any information you could provide me about both visas and tour arrangements would be greatly appreciated.I do not plan to travel right away ,but possibly in the near future.Is there a specific time of the year when passage to Nepal would be closed completely?(winter months). Can more than one nationality travel together on the same tour as my girl friend is of a different nationality than myself,but we are both foreigners.
Kind regards,
Isaac
at 8:45 am
Hi Isaac,
Thanks for your inquire.
This is Peter Wang from Intochinatravel.com. I have recived your questions about Tibet Travel and below is my replies.
1.You can apply for Tibet Travel Permit with your residence permit. It will not affect your visa status at all. We already have some travelers like your situation before. In order to apply for the Tibet Travel Permit, you need to offer scan of your passport, scan of Chinese visa, and the original working certification issued by your Chinese company. People with different nationalities can travel together, so you girl friend can travel with you, she just needs to submit the first two documents if she does not work in China like you.
2. It is costy for a 30 day private tour in Tibet, around USD7500 per person based on 2 persons’ group and your body condition may not suit the high altitude and climate for that long time in Tibet. Instead I recommend you join our 15 days join-in group tour in Tibet with affordable price. At present we have a tour departing on July 15, the detailed itinerary is below.
You’d better travel to Tibet between April to Middle October, Other months are too cold and some places can not be reached.
3. We can organize onward travel to Nepal. But at present the situation is still not good in Nepal as many things are still under reconstruction after the earthquake. We will keep watching the situation there and let you know when it is available.
Our latest join-in group departs Lhasa on July 15th. It is a 15 days tour from and end in Lhasa, However, you can choose to travel to Nepal on the 13th day if Nepal is available that time.
I have sent the detailed itinerary to your email Please check it and let me know if you have any question.
Peter Wang,
Sales Manger
service@intochinatravel.com