Can foreigners ride their bicycles into Tibet?
Foreign cyclists are very rare, all were accompanied by a rented vehicle. I’ve met a French cyclist who paid RMB 8000 to arrange a jeep (with tour guide) to accompany him for the whole 12-day cycling trip from Zhongdian to Lhasa… the tour guide was lucky enough to sit inside the land cruiser and do nothing at all, but it is necessary to hire a guide anyway! Road checks are extremely frequent, I think it’s almost impossible for foreigners to avoid any road checks now, even if you cycle at 2am!
