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Souvenirs recommended by PTT:
1: Tibetan carpet
The technics of Tibetan carpet has more than 600 years’ history. It is one of three famous carpets in the world. Besides wool footcloth and hanging carpet, cow hair footcloth is also good. Delicate designs mainly focusing on traditional Tibetan decoration and Buddhism patterns as well as daring colors make it a well inside ornament.
2: Gold-Silver ware
Hand-made drink tool, tea pot, and decoration mainly by gold and silver, assisting with copper, turquoise, cow bone and other natural gem attract lots of ladies.
3: Tibetan fragrant coil
Formerly, it is oblation for Buddha. The raw materials are mainly fragrant plant and mineral produced from Tibet. A hank of coils can keep worm out of clothes besides smelling its fragrance after being burning.
4: Aweto
A kind of plant transformed from insect produced from Tibetan plateau. Chinese call it aweto, a rare Chinese traditional herb. It can make your body strong. In winter, it is worm; it turns into plant coming up from soil in summer. Same shape with insect, has head, foot, and tail, is quite expensive. An aweto about 5 cm long can be sold around 100 Yuan. You need to check the size when do purchase.
5: Snow Lotus
It grows in the moving rock and gravel slope of Snow Mountain, between 4,800 and 5,800 meters elevation. It is a plant covering soft nap and also rare traditional Chinese herb. Snow lotus can cure female nephropathy and rheumatism arthritis. It is expensive for tough picking.
