climate in Qinghai-Tibet plateau

People have China Tibet travel will find that the climate in Tibet is quite different from other places in China. When they go to Tibet by Tibetan railway, pass the Qinghai-Tibet plateau, you can get such conclusion as bellow.

The climate there has less atmosphere, less oxygen and lower air pressure. In fact, Tibet plateau has long time sunshine and strong radiation so the locals looks dark and dry. Travelers always take sunglasses and sunscreen with them to protect the weak skin. Seasons in Tibet can de classified in to obvious dry season and rain season. The dry season is from April or May to September or October. But you do not need take an umbrella when you travel because the rains usually come in night time.The sky in dry season looks blue like blue velvet that nobody can image it or describe it till he has ever been Tibet. Just as the saying goes, Tibet is the most place nearby the heaven in the world. Except the total trend of the cold and dry northwest and the warm and wet southeast, there are still a variety of regional climate and obvious vertical climatic belt.

If the travelers travel from Lhasa to Kathmandu, they will have another experience for the change of climate from Tibet to Nepal.