This extraordinary budget travel guide to the Tibetan world comes with over 280 tried and tested maps covering the entire region. Get there and get around: Hundreds of pages of travel information. Plus gateway cities: New Delhi, Calcutta, Chengdu, Kunming, Kathmandu and Pokhara.
Keep to your budget: Hotel tariffs, tour and trekking costs, permit and visa charges. Pack everything in: Cultural, historical and religious explanations, festival dates, sights & more...
It had every detail I needed; it was incredible. While taking a 2-day train over from Guangzhou to Lhasa, I used this to plot my open-ended journey through the Himalayas.
I have no basis for comparision, but this fulfilled everything I needed for an impromptu exploration; even the location for post boxes were exactly the same.