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Trip Preparation: Travel Issues
Travel issues | Maps | When to go | Costs & budgets
The most interesting Tibet maps (scale 1:310,000) are the maps produced by the voluntary group in France called the Tibet Map Institute. These maps are based on NASA Landsat photographs superimposed onto international aeronautical maps and contain the most accurate altitudes/features available. A selection of these colour maps are included in Tibet Overland.
The Russian World Series (scales 1:1 million, 1:500,000 and 1:200,000), produced by the former Soviet Union military in the early 70s to mid-80s, are the best topographical maps available covering all of Tibet. Although they are only available in Cyrillic script, and names and locations of some towns and roads have changed slightly since production, they have excellent relief markings and contours (up to 100m).
Another series of maps (suitable for trekking) are those produced by the Chinese Institute of Glaciology (scale 1:100,000).
To obtain these and other maps see 'specialist map dealers' worldwide and suggested maps lists in Tibet Overland.
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Prayer chörten at Samding
monastery - with view over a
dry section of Lake Yamdrok
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