Useful numbers in Tibet
General Numbers:
- Local Phone Number Inquiries: 114
- Long-distance Phone Number Inquiries: 113
- Police: 110
- Fire: 119
- Ambulance: 120
- Weather Broadcast: 121
- Consumer Complain: 12315
- Tourist complaint Center: 0891-6833476
Area Phone Code:
- Lhasa: 0891
- Shigatse: 0892
- Shannan: 0893
- Nyingchi: 0894
- Chamdo: 0895
- Nakchu: 0896
- Ngari: 0897
Transportation:
- Gonggar Airport Information Desk: 0891-6182220
- Airplane Ticket Offices: 0891-6833446/6322417
- Bus Station of TAR: 0891-6824469
Hospitals in Lhasa:
- Tibetan Traditional Hospital (Mentsikhang), on Yuthok Lu and opposite the Barkhor Square, also has English speaking doctors and the staff is kind.
Tel. 6324211 (emergency department), 6323244 - People’s Hospital Lhasa, east of the junction where Beijing Dong Lu meets Lingkhor Dong Lu. Tel. 6323811 (emergency department)
- TAR Hospital of Tibetan Medicine, north end of Niangre Nan Lu
- Military Hospital Dental Clinic, on Beijing Xi Lu and near Holiday Inn
Related tours
Enjoy the once a year Litang Horse Racing Festival and see long distance riding, trekking, horse riding tricks and shooting from horseback, all first hand. Traveling from Chengdu to Litang is half the fun filled with fantastic natural scenery.
Enjoy the “king of shu mountains” Hailuogou Glacier as you travel into the Tibetan Kham region of western Sichuan. The beautiful Tagong grassland and the East Alpine Mount Siguniang offers some of the best sightseeing in all of China.
This 11-day Beijing Xi’an Lhasa Train Tour links China’s ancient capitals with Tibet’s cultural heart. Visit the Great Wall and Terracotta Warriors, then take the Qinghai-Tibet Railway to Lhasa to explore the Potala Palace, Jokhang Temple, and the stunning Namtso Lake or Yamdrok tso.