Necessary Knowledge for Tibet Tour in Winter
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Necessary Knowledge for Tibet Tour in Winter

Update: Mar. 1st, 2013

Tibet in Winter

According to statistics, there was only 1 percent of travelers had high altitude sickness when have Tibet tour. Among these travelers, a large part of them got high altitude sickness for heavy psychological burden.

In fact, the winter in Tibet is not as cold as in your imagination. The number of sunny days in winter is larger than in other seasons. In whole Tibet, the average temperature in Southern Tibet is 8 degree and in Northern Tibet is 0 degree. Lhasa is located at center of Tibet. There is no cold winter and hot summer. The climate of Lhasa features large temperature range in daytime and nighttime. Although the sunshine is strong in daytime, you still need to wear down coat or cotton padded coat at night.

Necessary Knowledge for Tibet Tour in Winter – Necessary Things

There are three necessary things for Tibet tour in winter. The first one is medical kit. Necessary medicines include specific medicine for cold, medicine for cough, anti-inflammatory drug, Vitamin, intestinal medicine, etc. the second one is sun glasses and hat. When enjoy sunshine during your Tibet tour in winter, sun glasses and hat not only can protect your from sunshine, but also can help your to be cool. The third thing is sunscreen cream, skin cream and lipstick. Since the air in winter is dry, and sunshine is strong, it is very important to protect skin for both men and women. Furthermore, snow blindness and cold injury are two special symptoms of high altitude sickness. You should pay enough attention to them.

Necessary Knowledge for Tibet Tour in Winter – Snow Blindness

The snow and water surface can reflect strong sunshine. If you expose your eyes to this environment for a long time in sunny days, it may cause snow blindness which makes people blind for a short time. If appear this symptom, you should use medical liquid to wash eyes and stay at black environment or cover you eyes with eyeshade and compress with cold towel. You are suggested to reduce the time of using eyes. The good environment is helpful for relieving the symptom of snow blindness. But it will take about five to seven days to recover completely.

Necessary Knowledge for Tibet Tour in Winter – Cold Injury

When have Tibet tour in winter, you are suggested to pay attention to prevent cold injury. When go out, you are suggested to wear gloves and hat, keep warm of feet. If appear cold injury, you should take following methods based on the degree of cold injury.

In general, the cold injury is accompanied with the symptom of heat loss. When give first aid treatment, you are suggested to first deal with the symptom of heat loss. For pure cold injury, you can take following methods. First of all, warm injured place to prevent continuous damage. In general, you can use the warm water or hot towel to compress injured place. After regaining consciousness, you should smear medicine for cold injured on the injured place. Then, use cotton or gentle cloth to slightly wrap up the injured place. Some people think that it can quickly warm up by smearing the injured place with snow. It fact, it is wrong.

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