What Is China Really Doing In Tibet? ( 

Hope you enjoyed the brief tour of Tibet. I think I have one more video from China and that's a wrap -- see you in the next one.

I think some comments can explain why foreigners should be restricted from entering Tibet. There are too few ordinary tourists like Tommy, and too many people like those comments try to provoke political conflicts. - - I didn't expect this comment to receive so much attention, so I want to say a few more words. My college roommate was a Tibetan from Lhasa. I learned about the terrorist attacks in Tibet in 2008 from him, which was far worse than what I saw on TV. Since then, the government has restricted foreigners from entering Tibet in order to stop terrorist infiltration. However, as you can see, foreigners like Tommy can still travel in Tibet. Although I can feel that his political views are not consistent with those of the Chinese government (to some extent, even the opposite), he treats all people equally and friendly. He does not aggressively "preach", trying to impose his views on others, or inciting others to hurt others. I think such foreign travelers will be welcomed throughout China, at least I really like Tommy. Although I may not agree with some of his political tendencies, I can feel his friendliness and kindness, which is enough. Everyone has their own political views, and there is no need to force consensus. The most important thing is harmony and friendliness.

如果有更多像您这样的Vlogger，我相信不同国家的人之间可以更容易消除误解和隔阂，非常感谢！ If there are more Vloggers like you, I believe that misunderstandings and barriers between people from different countries can be more easily eliminated. Thank you very much!

This was great. Your frustration is understandable, yet you handled your visit well. Thanks for giving us the tour.

Thanks Tommy. Seems like I haven't seen a video from you in a while. Now there are a few available. As always you provide great entertainment. I find your videos actually uplifting.

Wow, the people there really do seem to be genuinely super friendly!

Great Video, Tibet is always amazing, People are wonderful!!!!

Brother you made me cry from tears of joy . I like how you captured everything without saying much .

Thanks for making this video. My wife is tibetan and she really enjoyed seeing you explore.

Great to revisit Tibet with you in this video. Thank you. My last time was 20 years ago. Things have changed, physically and many things are unchanged. May all beings be happy.

Ah, perfect timing for my weekly youtube session! Love your videos. I used to travel for several years myself, and your videos inspire me to do it again some day.

been lived in Australia for a decade as a Tibetan, thank you for introducing my home place to the world, thank you

Hi, I watched your video in five minutes and noticed some misunderstandings. ”民族路” should not be translated as ethnicity road, it means similar to national road. Also in China ethnicity doesn’t have similar inference as in American context. In China ethnicity is a positive word, there is a song in China called “56 ethnicities” and almost everyone knows it. It is not your fault but those are the roots as why cultural misunderstanding is so significant.

For me this was a short but unique and rare looksee into the real Tibet in the current era. I applaud your friendly and honest approach towards everyone. Your dauntless efforts are greatly appreciated. Thank you !

Another fascinating video Tommy. Please keep them coming.

That’s quite a video u made there .I was just cruising though the RU-vid videos and your video got my attention . Really liked the way you presented ❤ simple yet a strong and brave one

I've been to Tibet, there are lots of very nice and frendly people. Thank you for your video!

What a phenomenal series. Thank you so much for you taking us on your journey. As an American, I feel grateful to have you as an Ambassador to all the wonderful people you come across. Safe travels.

TASHI delek . Such a beautiful video. Thanks you so much .

Tommy your smile when you said Tibet has the loveliest grannys made me smile too and tears just came out of my eyes unexpectedly... As a Manchu Chinese I've always been fascinated by the diverse culture we have across the nation and I so do hope the preseverance of ethnic cultures will gain more attention. Living in the US for a long time I feel quite sad that I have never been able to actually visit more places back home, especially truly culturally unique places like Tibet. Seeing you interacting with locals lovingly and peacefully, trying to learn their language with another non-native language you learned, exactly like how I imagined the future world would be when I was young, caught my emotions unguard. Watching this video after an entire day of being forced to consume madness on the internet makes me want to pick up meditation again. Thank you so much for the content brother.

Chinese and China is more than my expectation! Nice people decent and helpful. I have Great Honor for them . Thank you for the tour.

10 Minutes into the video and Im so astonished bout how welcoming, open and friendly these nice people are. So nice to see this really warms my heart.

Thanks for uploading and sharing us this wonderful video. I love Tibet

Thank you for your video .. I have few work colleague and this video made me good understandings

That was Amazing Tommy very interesting Thanks for sharing.

thank you brother made me feel like I'm in Tibet! hope you get more chances to explore our beautiful Tibet

So sad your tour is almost over, love every second of it. Your minimal (often nonverbal) critique of places is very diplomatic and keeps the videos entertaining. You let the natives and pictures speak for themselves. It also gives your "rambling" more meaning (like the tibetan rivers) that, hopefully, people take a closer look.

I enjoyed your video. Thank you for your incredible content.

Hey Tommy, My name is Noah. I'm from the south east. I have been watching you for a while now. One of the first videos I watched you in you were in the slums in Africa out on the water I forget which episode it was. It was a good episode it showed your character and I really like how your attitude is and how comfortable you are around anybody I look up to that because that's the way that I am and there are very few people that are real like this you are one of the only people that I can say I truly believe without a doubt in my heart that you have no racist bone or thought in your body AKA mind. You love everybody! You want to explore the world and explore different cultures and beat you people and learn new things and have new experiences and explore your spiritual side and you are not for no religion, you see the world in a similar way as I do and I'm sure there are others like me who filled the same or a similar way. Anyway you have my full respect sir love your videos love what you do you're doing what I would give anything in the world to do but I am not even half as intelligent as you. year quickness to learn a new language is mind-boggling in my personal opinion. There's no way my mind could just learn a new language as quick as you do and then you keep it it seems like and it's so easy for you to figure out what someone is saying even if you don't really know that language. Kudos to you my friend. 👍

8:21 What a sweet interaction🥰. This is what traveling is all about out for me, having these small interactions are typically what stays in my mind for many years.

Thank you for taking me along in your adventures of Tibet.

Thank you for sharing your experience!

I'm really enjoying these Tibet vlogs, this place looks so unique and awesome, I want to visit someday

Your videos are so spontaneous, which makes them quite unique 👍👍👍

I love your videos dude! Your a positive influence and now im am getting back into learning new languages starting with Español thanks dude

Thank you for sharing you time with us most enjoyable .

Tommy your videos are always incredible. I would love to travel to China just like you, but I’m sure I won’t live up to your language standards. This video was especially good everything about it. Great job great capture.

I loved how you showed specially the very local side of tibet and it’s people and your short interactions with them. N I loved your explanations over every corner you went. 👍

Thanks Tommy! I enjoy watching your travels and chats with the locals. It is nice to bridge gaps in cultures.

There are so many vloggers on china... but i somehow enjoyed your laid back nature. The way you present the whole experience is very impressive actually, moreover the way you respond to the locals is very sweet and positive. Thanks a lot...!

我在西藏待了超過18年，如果你跟我一樣經歷過2008年的暴亂。你就會明白爲什麽需要限制某些人進入西藏。 當年的事情，太恐怖了。

The China episodes are so interesting. I hope you would do them again sometime. I really enjoy watching those as I’m currently learning mandarin as well

it's amazing how unbiased you are it's not normal from that part of the world, keep up the good work and take care

Love your disposition. Appreciate ya!!!

i really appreciate your videos about China. THANK YOU SO MUCH.

Long time subscriber, just like to say I really enjoy your videos, you're quite unique in as much as you research the history, and don't judge and and in most cases have a good command of the local language, which is especially unique for an American, and adds so much to the content with the interactions with the local folks. so good for you, look forward to your videos 👍🤔

Feels like a completely different world in Tibet. Very quiet and peaceful environment.

I appreciate you make this such wonderful video on Tibet it’s really nice to see the beautiful people and unique culture of Tibet thank you 🙏

我的家里的表哥当年去川藏那边的阿坝州还是哪里当兵，在2008-2010年这个时间段吧，退伍回来后说那里当时有很多的暴乱事件，可能前一天和你关系很好的牧民伯伯两个人一起抽烟，第2天就和其它藏民一起暴乱，问了是为什么，说是当年有宗教冲突达赖还是啥的一个人在西藏境内去世了，藏民帮助外国势力拿回尸体（我很不理解），还有就是很容易受到境外势力通过宗教的蛊惑，他们自己都不知道暴乱了有什么后果以及他们自己暴乱的诉求是什么。。。。很多藏民受教育水品非常低7岁小孩子就知道抽烟那种的，很容易被煽动起来；我表哥那个时候吓都要吓死了，经常穿着防护服（我也不知道叫什么）随时待命阻止暴动，当时他的一个战友赶上了暴动，被藏民直接用藏刀砍伤（手骨断裂）；但是同时那里的人非常非常善良淳朴，我表哥退伍前去和战友爬雪山纪念，不小心把小饰品掉在了路上，藏民伯伯跟在他们后面怕了将近海拔1000米就为了把 饰品带给他们。。。

Great videos Tommy! Love your content

I've been to Lakdak and Nepal several times. Tourists/trekkers/foreigners also need permission to be able to get into some areas. Tibet always on my to-go list. Great content!! Thanks

Badass video man keep em coming shout out from Cali!!

good speech in the end of video, goog job dude, you are an honest international friend. you used your camera to record the real Tibet.

Absolutely cool! Thanks for sharing the simplicity of your travels... greetings from Palm Springs, CA.

Darn I wish there was more footage from Tibet!!! You have become my go to travel blogger!!!

Thanks sir your video. That's wonderful. I am really enjoying it.

great video. totally enjoy it, from a unbiased lense!

I really enjoyed your videos cause you showed us many different location of Tibet. I am from Tibet and I have been in Newyork in recently and it was amazing too. So you are from Newyork and you have seen other wonderful view of Tibet landscape.

This is extremely interesting. I have seen almost nothing of Tibet before. Thank you for taking us there.

As a Chinese, I really appreciate Sabbatical's video. It's real and immersed. It doesn't praise or criticize deliberately, just feels and shares.

Your videos are great. You are a blogger who takes deep photos of the lives of people at the bottom. Unlike other bloggers who only shoot skyscrapers, beautiful shopping malls, high-speed high-speed rails, etc., your works are great.

Man you were like a celebrity on that bus 🤩 And wow that scenery ... pretty amazing stuff

Watching your video reminds me of traveling to Tibet It's so beautiful! Must come once in life!

Great video. We love your style

Many thanks, sir, for sharing this video. Really interesting.

Love the video Tommy. This series is great

Greetings from Western Australia. I'm going to Shanghai next year and then I'm taking the train to Tibet. I can't wait to go. I love your vids. Stay safe.

Dude is chilling. That’s positive stuff I’d like to see

Very nice video. I enjoyed it. See you again and take care.

Thank you for your real journey to Tibet. Appreciate!

Most impressed how quick you pick up Chinese and able to even converse ❤❤❤

Phenomenal video from America! So many kind spirits

To understand China, one must also need to understand the US led western anti-China movement … for example “Congress Proposes $500 Million for Negative News Coverage of China The effort to counter China’s ‘malign influence’ would fund negative coverage of China’s Belt and Road Initiative-while also beefing up the U.S.’s international lending.”. There have been other “kinetic”approaches adopted by this movement such as the physical interference and violence took place in the past in Hong Kong, Xinjiang, and Tibet. Give the chinese government a break to protect its racial harmony and peaceful existence!

Great seeing and watching your adventures in Tibet

Thank you for the tour. Enjoyed it. Younger generation in most places of the world do lose touch a bit, and a bit of their parents' tradition, as I have also not been practising some of my culture. When I was young living in a close-knit extended family, tradition and rituals during festivals were strictly followed and performed. I guess with development and modernisation, extended family becoming smaller unit, rituals become formality and less strictly followed. I do hope Tibetans do not lose their traditions and cultures. Influences from outside - I was and am probably influenced by the American and British culture through watching a lot of TV series in the 70's - 90's - make me think that is the modern way. Traditions and ritual are old fashion. Of course, now I am old, I regret that I have lost my culture and my identity. Though I do not practise my tradition, I take comfort in knowing about my culture and traditions.

Quite a unique video! I like it.

Enjoy your video, especially the way you interact with the locals.

It's heartwarming to see people trying to talk in each other's languages even most of times it's just simple greetings. Communication saves relations, even between civilizations.

Really interesting stuff. Great segment. Nice people. Great religion. Keep up the good will and travels. Thanks.

❤thanks bro shows me and Tibet people I’m watching from Nepal.your video is amazing

Thanks for sharing I really enjoy your video, nice people of Tibe and building culture...

This tour has been a great peek into Tibet. I was fortunate to go on a very similar tour during a break period while studying abroad in China and I absolutely loved it. The Tibetan people are so incredibly warm and hospitable. I've been wanting to return since.

Hey man. What you have given us is of infinite worth. ❤

Incredible content brother

Thank you so much for sharing!!

Loved this, somewhere I will never get to, so I am travelling with you & enjoying it so much. I travelled a lot when I was younger but never went to the East or the Middle east, Africa etc so THANK YOU for your time & sharing your adventures, only thing I wont have is a souvenir lol

Hi buddy, I really like your videos. No matter good or not, thank you to show the truth of China!

Your amazing. I enjoy your content. Safe travel from Chicago

Well, you wear short sleeves even with this cold weather. I am very proud of you. Thanks for sharing your experience in Tibet.💯💯💯💯💯

I've loved seeing Tibet.. I'd love you to do a video on Yangshuo near Guilin... to see how much it's changed.

I really enjoy this video. Thanks for uploading

Great video. Thank you.

Hi..you captured wonderful nature of Tibet and the way your explanation and moving place to place in Tibet feels like there are not much restriction, but in real life is not..really enjoyed thank you bro

My uncle visited Tibet and told me a true story that a German tour group made some locals hold up a banner reading "Free Tibet". That caused the poor Tibetian who was unable to read the banner get arrested and god knows what interrogation they went through. It made me very angry and upset about the actions by these westerners. For every 10,000 good foreigners, there could be one, harbouring ill will, not towards Tibetians, but anything CCP does. And probably more among them who are unhappy about CCP for what they hear on western media, subconsciously keeping an eye out for issues to pick on with China. Im not sure if you can imagine, people exist who are self righteous and holier than thou that would try to put opinions into the minds of pure, carefree people who just wants to mind their own lives. I would keep an eye on foreigners since there is an active one sided propaganda against the country. You would do the same if someone is trying to intervene and "save" your people from your govt. too. Why is china so restrictive you asked. Tibet is a hotspot of a target for propaganda after all. I can sense even in your video, you held back from saying too many good things about china in fear of backlash. Sorry if that is your environment. So indeed, my uncle's said his sim card was tapped, and his tour was very restricted. How he knew, he was interviewed by cops about the word bomb, mentioned, but its taken out of context and has been clarified. He is all fine, believe it or not, they are very respectful towards tourists even during interrogation. Felt utterly restrictive, but he understands the paranoia. He's not putting all the blame on the Chinese govt., he puts half the blame on the aggressive western propaganda that is trying to sway the local's minds. Every country has skeletons in their closets. I wish America and their allies will stop trying to pick on only the bad things, talking shit about china, its so racist and hypocritical. I wish more westerners will spend more time enjoying asia and china, I see this place as the future. Its thriving, extremely safe, friendly and people are living good lives. Western countries are going through the painful process of cutting off from china, i find that self mutilating and it is affecting people living in west more than in china, I know because i live in one. I hope more people will take step back, put things into perspective, visit other countries and learn that people everywhere just wants to live their lives normally It is not what the politicians and state media propaganda try to portray.

The scenery is really beautiful

Thanks for sharing. It's so cool, totally a different world.

Those little buildings with the bell ringing are SO trippy. Its like the whole mountain is blessed in prayers.

I’m a chinese, i’m glad to see your video .I’ve been to some places of tibet but not lhasa, I hope all the people over the world can feel the beaty of tibet, to see how people live in tibet. Here is a funny thing from my college about Tibetan. A tibetan student quietly and slowly tells to his roommate at the first day:" it costs a yak for one year college tuition（at least 20,000 yuan), and I need to study hard" The han student feels sorry for his family's lost, and wants to treat him to dinner because he thinks a yak must very important and expensive to his family. During the dinner, the han student suddenly asks: How many yaks do you have? The tibetan student think a while: About 150 the han student slaps the table：you treat next time！！

The unique feeling you mentioned in the video is an unfortunate life for the locals. The primitive houses had poor living sanitation and few people leds to poor economic. Lack of education and obsession with religion lead to had no capacity of earning money. You may prefer to go back 50 years ago to see a more ‘unique’ living environment, but no one among the locals wants to go back 50 years ago.

To see is to believe. Great Job!