Tom Carter

Writer's Biography

Tom Carter is the author of 'CHINA: Portrait of a People,' a definitive 600-page book of photography due out winter 2007 from Hong Kong publisher Blacksmith Books.

Visit Tom's website: http://www.tomcarter.org

Email Author

Featured Travel Stories

Tibet: Kham, Tibet - Story by Tom Carter
- 9th Online Issue

The news was shocking.  The ticket agent at the Shangri-la bus terminal in Zhongdian, Yunnan province was happy to tell me over and over, in both Chinese and English, that yes, foreigners can now travel east through the Tibet Autonomous Region to Lhasa … overland and without a permit! I really couldn't believe what I was hearing, but rather than falling down in rapture, I agonized over taking advantage of this new policy or continuing as planned on my already-paid-for, government-authorized, one-week tour across Kham to Lhasa. It would have been silly for me not to choose the latter.

Read more of this article...