shigatse railway Archives - TravelsFinders.Com ® http://travelsfinders.com/tag/shigatse-railway Thu, 19 Jan 2017 20:00:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 Xigaze Map http://travelsfinders.com/xigaze-map.html http://travelsfinders.com/xigaze-map.html#respond Thu, 26 Jan 2017 04:25:00 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=231532 Region of Xizang (Tibet) Altitude: 3836m/12,590ft. Population: 50,000 Xigaze lies in southern Tibet, 345km/214 miles west of Lhasa, the region’s capital, and some 500km/310 miles north-east of Katmandu, at 88°27’E and 29°14’N. It is linked to Lhasa and Katmandu by overland bus. More than 500 years old, Xigaze is the second largest town in the Autonomous Region and has always been the political, religious and economic centre of southern Tibet. On Mount Zongshan in the town there once stood a palace which served as a model for the Potala Palace in Lhasa. It was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution. On

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