The awe-inspiring Himalayas are the highest in the world, as is the never ending Tibetan plateau. Tibet is a place for the rugged adventurer as well as the spiritual wanderer. A land that is held back in time and houses many secrets.
Nomads remain much the same as they did one hundred years ago.
Then, there are the monasteries which are striving to find a place in a country that's crashing into the twentieth century. The Tibetan people and their religion have been inseperable. Even in their earliest myths one finds references to the Tibetan's religious beliefs. Originally, the Bon religion dominated Tibet. After the introduction of Buddhist statues and later sanskrit documents from India, Buddhism crept increasingly into the Tibetan culture.