Tips for Travel to Tibet in May

Mostly, May remarks the coming of the peak season of Tibet tour. With the rising of the temperature on Tibet Plateau, the number of visitors planning to travel to Tibet keeps increasing. As a professional Tibet tour operator, Tibet Tour would like to provide some useful tips for travel to Tibet in May.

Most visitors might be attacked by different levels of hard breath, chest stuffiness and some other symptoms of anoxia symptoms in the first period of your arrival in Tibet. But that doesn't mean tourists suffering those symptoms could not adapt to the high plateau environment. Actually, those symptoms would get relieved or disappear in 2-3 days if you protect yourself in correct ways.

Tourists planning to travel to Tibet in May by air should note that the possible high altitude sickness might attack you in 12-14 hours after you landing on Lhasa with an average altitude around 3600 meters. Therefore, Tibet Tour always suggests our clients to go to the hotel for rest from the airport directly. It needs more time to get adapted to the plateau environment once you caught certain high altitude sickness.

Be over worried about the high altitude sickness, a lot of tourists in Tibet would like to seek help from the oxygen bottle once they feel a mild choking sensation in the chest. Actually, the discomfort symptoms would come to you again once you stop the oxygen uptaking. According to the professional doctors, tourists are strongly suggested not to use the oxygen bottle if you are only suffering mild high altitude sickness symptoms and tourists are highly recommended to adapt to the high plateau on your own.

To adapt to the high plateau environment sooner and better, tourists planning to travel to Tibet in May could take some digestive carbohydrate food. Enough water drinking is helpful in adapting the dry climate in Tibet. Fresh fruits and vegetables could provide the necessary vitamins. In addition, smoking and drinking should be abandoned during the stay on Tibet Plateau.

Tourists planning to travel to Tibet in May should arrange your sightseeing schedule reasonably. As we all known, the scenic spots in Tibet are quite far away from each other and tourists always have to spend 8-10 hours on the vehicle. In consideration of health, tourists should leave enough time for rest. Therefore, put several spots in the same day might make tourists too fatigue. Besides, tourists are strongly suggested to visit the places with higher altitude after you get a good adaptation in the places with lower altitude.

On the one hand, tourists don't need to be over worried about the possible high altitude sickness; on the other hand, tourists should pay enough attention to the high altitude sickness. It is necessary to adopt the oxygen uptaking measure and go to the hospital if you are feeling your high altitude sickness is getting worse. Professional treatment will protect you from the possible pneumoedema or ebcephaledema. The most effective way is get back to the plain area with lower altitude if you want to get ride of the high altitude sickness soon.