Gyantse Horse Race Festival

Summer is the best time travel to Tibet, expect warm weather, Shoton festival, there is another festival worth to visit in Tibet travel. That is Gyantse Horse Race Festival.
In rugged beautiful high-altitude country about 245 kilometers southwest of Lhasa is the ancient town of Gynatse where there are annual athletic contests on the fourth lunar month of the Tibetan calender. These contests involve horse racing and archery contests, as well as wrestling, Tibetan Opera, music and dancing, track and field, and ball games. Along with this, there is a swap meet and an open market to buy authentic Tibetan crafts goods and a picnic where you can try the Tibetan food. The town of Gyantse is situated in a valley between high mountains, and compared to the rest of Tibet, more of the traditional way of life continues on there.
So, every year in July and August, there a many people travel in Tibet, and that’s why the Tibet train ticket is so popular sometime you hardly could get one. Most travelers choose by train to tibet though Qinghai Tibet Railway.