Journey to Tibet

By: Mariah Stolt

Climate

• Tibetans have it very hard. Their climate is VERY different from ours in Michigan. Summers are cold because of thin air and winters are bearable because of intense sunlight. Both spring and winter are dry and windy. North Tibet has thunder and hail-storms. In south and central Tibet it rains heavy at night.

Physical Landmarks

• Tibet has the largest mountain know to man, Mt. Everest! Tibet has many mountains and mountain ranges, such as the Gangdise Mt., the Himalayas Mt., and the Karakoram mountain range.

Jobs

• Some of the jobs they have are construction sites, usually teenage girls do this and earn $2.50 a day, women butter churn while men cut wood. In northern and western Tibet they hunt wild goats and they grow wheat and barley. Also they have businesses and they trade and collect flowers, herbs, and other plants for medicine.

Food

• The most popular drink is a Buttered tea, also called po cha, and the tea they make it from come in bricks of black tea. They break the black tea off and put it in boiling water. Another famous dish of theirs is barley flour. Their primary foods are barley flour, wheat flour, yak meat, mutton and pork.

Population, Race, and Religion

• Religion in Tibet are Buddhism and Bon

• For Ethnic Groups there are 49.8% Tibet, 34.5% Han Chinese, and Others are 15.7%

• There are 5,245,347 people

Bodies of Water

• The rivers in Tibet are Ganges, Mekong, and Indug rivers. The lakes are Namsto, Mansarovar, Yamdrok and Yumtso lakes.

Transportation

• The transportation went from pack animals to railways, highways, trains and airlines. Many tourists choose trains and motorcycles, trucks, minibuses, SUV’s, Jeeps, and Tractor-pulled wagons. Of course they still use horses.

Famous Places

• One of the most famous place to go is to Lhasa, it is a holy place, also called The City of Gods. The Potala palace has Sanskrit, written language. A Jokhang Temple which is a spiritual center. The barkhor bazaar is one of the oldest streets in the Lhasa circle. Two more places that are famous are Norbulingka that’s a jeweled garden and the ruins of Guge Kingdom

Urban vs. Rural

Tibet is both urban and rural. It has 10 large cities which are Lhasa, Xigatse, Gyantse, Zharmu, Xeger, Lhokha, Qamdo, Nagqu, Ngari, and Nyingehi. There is 1.2 million farmland that have been made into forests.

Geographic Region

• Tibet is at the longitude of 78º 25’-99º 06’ east and the latitude of 26º44’-36º32’. To the north and southwest it borders China to the South and West India, Bhutan,Nepal and Sikkim border it. It is the second largest region in China with 1,200,000 square miles.

Sources• Google images

• tibettrip.com/facts

• education.mnks.org/immigration/communities/tibetan

• Factsanddetails.com/china

• go under global top, under China, Under government, under Tibetan economics