Nyingchi travel tips:

Due to the severe sunlight on the plateau and wide temperature division between day and night in Nyingchi, you are highly advised to carry long sleeves, sweater, jackets, sunglasses, sun cap, sun blocking cream, lip cream, Aspirin, medicine for cold and digestion etc. The best tourist season: from April until October.

The best option for touring Nyingchi is to follow the route from Lhasa to Nyingchi for its best high way condition and gorgeous landscape.

At present bus or car is the only means of transportation to enter Nying and some parts of Nyingchi are even only accessible on foot though most of the town and villages are well linked by highway networks.

The tourists can buy all the Tibetan daily life untensils in the shops opened by the Kangba People on the 500 meters long Hong Kong Street in Bayi which is a very important logistic center in the southeast of Tibet.

As most other parts of Tibet, the Sichuan Cuisines is the most popular. The Sichuan restaurants are even ubiquitous. Small ones are cheaper while some more expensive and better one does offer fantastic Sichuan food. Good options are the Tan Family''s dishes, the Sichuan restaurant in the eastern part of the Shenzhen Avenue and the Red Mansion opposite the public security office.

Bayi boasts the most advenced banking facilities and services in the region thoughll; it has only two banks, i.e. the Construction Bank and the Agriculure Bank and both hava no ATMs. The postal saving here offers deposit-and-withdraw in different locations service, but you are still advised to carry cash. The foreign visitors should especially take note that they cannot exchange foreign currencies here.

Most parts of the prefecture have internet cafes, even in the remote county of Bomi. The well-known internet cafes in Bayi are the Red Latern, the Time Celebrities Club, and the Hongdu Teahouse internet cafe.