阿里地處西藏的西部，平均海拔4500米以上，素有“世界屋脊的屋脊”或“西藏的西藏”的稱謂，這裡地形獨特。該地區湖泊眾多，人煙稀少，有眾多美麗絕倫的的雪山，且險峻多姿，氣勢磅礴；有著數不清的湖泊和走不到盡頭的寬闊草原，各種高原珍奇動物和名貴的植物讓您博覽世界而不知疲倦。被佛教信徒視為“世界中心”的神山崗仁波欽和聖湖瑪旁雍措不管您以何種角色去審視，都會產生一種無形的肅穆和敬畏。還有古格王國遺址、 托林寺、斑公湖自然風景區、鳥島、科加寺、獨特的地貌扎達土林、東嘎皮映洞窟壁畫、“古象雄文化”以及具有500年歷史的“普蘭國際市場”等，都宛如一顆顆璀燦的明珠，讓您顧盼流連。這裡有四條著名的河，即獅泉河、孔雀河、象泉河和馬泉河，分別是印度河、恆河、薩特累季河、雅魯藏布江的源頭。
牐犜謖餛大約30萬平方公里遼闊的高原上生存著六萬六千多位藏族同胞，主要從事牧業和半農牧業。阿里地區共有七縣一鎮，獅泉河是阿里地區的政治、經濟和文化中心，這裡的海撥高達4200米，距拉薩1587公里，距新疆葉城1085公里，空曠的大地上，幾十里不見人煙。
牐犖韃厥鞘瀾緄奈菁梗而阿里則是屋脊上的屋脊。儘管阿里的海拔非常之高，路途異常艱險，補給不足，交通不便，但它奇特的高原風貌勢不可擋地吸引著無數探險者們去征服它、體驗它、欣賞它。如今阿里越來越成為到西藏旅遊，或者說時尚旅遊中最熱門、最時尚的一程。
Tibet Overview
Tibet lies on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau of the southwest border of China. The average height of the whole region is more than 4,000 meters above sea level, for which Tibet is known as "Roof of the World". The highest peak of Tibet, also the highest in Himalayas and in the whole world, is Everest Peak, which is as high as 8,846.27 meters above sea level.
Although a part of China, Tibet has a unique culture of all there own. It is mainly inhabited by Tibetans, a minority nationality of old and mysterious people. Tourist attractions include the Potala Palace in Lhasa, Jokhang Temple, and a number of Buddhist sacred places.
Tibet (Xi Zang in Chinese) is to the south of Xin Jiang Uygur Autonomous Region and Qing Hai Province, to the west of Sichuan, to the northwest of Yunnan and to the north of India and Nepal. Its population of 2.3 million people come from a variety of ethnic groups including Tibetan, Han, Monba and Lhota. Its capital city is Lhasa.
Northwest Tibet, mainly Qing Hai plateau, is home to a variety of unusual and unique animals. Across the northern expanse of Tibet, you can see vast grasslands where horses, yak and sheep roam freely. The world’s lowest valley, the Grand Yarlun-tzanpo River Valley lies in east Tibet.
Nearly all Tibetans follow Tibetan Buddhism, known as Lamaism, with the exception of approximately 2,000 followers of Islam and 600 of Catholicism. Tibetan Buddhism was greatly influenced by Indian Buddhism in its early time, but after years of evolution, Tibetan Buddhism has developed its own distinctive qualities and practices. A well-known example is the belief that there is a Living Buddha, who is the reincarnation of the first, a belief alien to Chinese Buddhism.
It is freezing cold in most time of the year. Most tourists come to visit Tibet only in the warmest seasons, June, July, August and early September.
山南是指岡底斯山和念青唐古拉山以南地區，橫闊420公里，縱長329公里，總面積8萬多平方公里的地域。沿西南方向逶迤的喜瑪拉雅山脈將不丹、印度與山南分隔。山南北跨雅魯藏布江曲水大橋達拉薩，溯江而上往西可至日喀則，相反則抵達西藏平均海拔最低的地區--林芝。
牐犐僥蝦０3600米，氣候溫和，屬典型的高原河谷平原地區。岡底斯、喜瑪拉雅等高大山脈的巍然夾峙，使得此地降水頗豐，氣溫也不似藏西、藏北那般嚴寒。橫貫于山南中部的雅魯藏布江正處中游，江面開闊，支流眾多，寬十數公里、長几十公里不等的河谷多有分布。河谷兩側山地的高處是牧場，腰部是森林，谷底及河口則是肥沃的農田，最適宜於青稞、蕎麥、小麥等高原農作物生長，是歷史悠久的人類聚居區和農業發達區，自古享有“西藏糧倉”之美譽。
牐犐僥系厙以澤當鎮為地區中心，山南地區下轄12個縣，現有藏、漢、回、門巴、珞巴等民族共29萬多人口,其中藏族占98%。
牐犐僥鮮俏韃刈災吻最富庶、歷史文化淵源最深厚的地區。由高地農業文明發展壯大而起的吐蕃王朝便是自山南興起的，因此，山南又被稱為西藏文明的發祥地並兩度成為西藏史上的統治中心。群峰、湖泊、溫泉、河谷組成了山南獨特的地理風光，雅礱河風景名勝區，是國家重點風景名勝區，這裡有吐蕃王朝時期留下的藏王陵墓群、西藏第一座寺廟--桑耶寺、雍布拉康、昌珠寺等著名的古寺、文化遺蹟。悠久歷史留下的豐厚的文化遺產以及神秘的宗教文化使山南成為旅遊者嚮往之地。
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