Tibet Tours

Travelers who have limited time and want to visit Everest base camp (North Side) can take

this tour. This your takes you to Lhasa via the Kathmandu – Lhasa high way (the friendship

high way). One the way, we visit Sakya Monastery, Shigatse, Shalu Monastery and Gyantse.

This tour takes place throughout the year as travelers can go out to Kathmandu, Chengdu or

other destination of main land China . We will manage Tibet permit and all other necessary

documents for your trip.

This tour can handle either single traveler or for the groups as per your interest.

Itinerary

Day 1: Drive from Kathmandu to Kodari (6 hrs.) after immigration formalities in Zhangmu-

2300 m, continue drive to Nyalam-3450m.Overnight Guest House

Day 2: Nyalam – Tingri (4350 m.),Overnight Guest House

Day 3: Tingri – Everest Base Camp (4920 m.),Overnight Guest House

Day 4: Everest Base Camp – Lhatse (3950 m.),Overnight Guest House

Day 5: Lhatse – Shigatse via Sakya Monastery (3900 m.),Overnight Hotel

Day 6: Shigatse – Shalu Monastery – Gyantse (3950 m.),Overnight Hotel

Day 7: Gyantse – Lhasa ( Tour Ends).

Note: We could extend this tour as per the clients desire. It is also possible to start

this tour from Lhasa and ends in Kathmandu.

The Potala Palace has served as the symbol of Tibetan Buddhism for centuries. The everlasting burning ghee lights, pure white godly hadas, resplendent golden funerary stupas of the departed Dalai Lamas, red robed Lamas chanting scriptures in the palace are like a dream. You can feel, but not integrate.

 Day 01Arrival in Lhasa

Our guide will meet you outside the baggage claim area at Lhasa Airport, where the altitude is 3,650 meters above sea level. Check in at the hotel. Dinner is served at your hotel.(D)

Descriptions:
Tibet – Speaking of Tibet, people will immediately think of the vast snow-capped plateau, the profound Buddhism culture, majestic religious buildings as well as the pious Buddhist believers. This mysterious land began to reveal its secrets till the beginning of the 20th Century. Since then, many visitors at home and abroad have listed it in their package tours.

Day 02Lhasa

Visit the Potala Palace. After a western-style lunch, visit the Sera Monastery, the Norbulingka Park and a Tibetan family. The a la carte dinner will be arranged for you at a local best Sichuan cuisine restaurant.(B+L+D)

Descriptions:
Potala Palace – Lying on the Red Hill in Lhasa City, Potala Palace is regarded as the symbol of Lhasa, noted for its magnificent construction, complex structure, pious atmosphere and delicate artworks. Originally, the King Songtsen Gampo built it in the seventh century and later the Fifth Dalai Lama repaired it in 1645. Its present size was enlarged by the thirteenth Dalai Lama. Gradually, it has become the political center in Tibet and the seat of Dalai Lamas. It is mainly made up of the Red Palace and the White Palace and covers an area of about 25 acres.
 
Sera Monastery – Being one of the monasteries in Lhasa City, the Sera Monastery is well known for its distinctive debating on Buddhist doctrines. When you come here, remember to watch it which is held every afternoon. Debating on Buddhist doctrines is a discussion on the understanding of Buddhism, and also an effective way to increase Lama’s knowledge on Buddhist studies. During the debates, both sides engage in a war of words, and usually, they use body gestures to strengthen their ideas. The heated discussion deeply moves visitors. 
 
Norbulingka Park – Have you ever heard of the Norbulingka Park in Lhasa? It is a very picturesque garden built over 200 years ago. Norbulingka means ‘Treasure Park’ in Tibetan. Under the careful construction of the Dalai Lamas, the attractions inside the park include palaces, pavilions, villas and various trees and flowers. Especially, visitors here can admire the unique architectural styles from the different palaces, such as the Kelsang Potrang, the Tsokyil Potrang, the Golden Linka and the Takten Migyur Potrang. It is really a nice place to experience the Tibetan culture and have fun.

Day 03Lhasa

Visit the Drepung Monastery. After having a western-style lunch, go ahead to visit the Jokhang Temple, the thriving bazaar of the Barkhor Street, the Tibetan Traditional Hospital and the Carpet Factory. Dinner is served at your hotel.(B+L+D)

Descriptions:
Jokhang Temple – Situated in the center of Lhasa, the Jokhang Temple is a typical Tibetan Buddhist temple, which bears unparalleled status in the Tibetan Buddhism. Constructed in 647 during the Tang Dynasty, the Jokhang Temple was built as a memorial to the Princess Bhrikuti of Nepal and Princess Wencheng of the Tang Dynasty. As the oldest wooden complex of Tibet, the temple covers an area of over 25,100 square meters (6.2 acres). The main hall has four floors and a gold-plating roof, looking rather spectacular.
 
Barkhor Street – A wonderful place for shopping in Lhasa is the Barkhor Street. At first, it was just the lodging area for pilgrims. Gradually, it became a trading center of the local people. Nowadays, merchants, pilgrims and travelers from the central plain of China, Mongolia, Bhutan, India and Nepal have made it a very prosperous street

Day 04Departure from Lhasa

Visit the Tibet Museum if time permits. Then we will transfer you to the airport for the return flight. Have a pleasant trip home!(B)

Descriptions:
Tibet Museum – To know the history and the development of Tibet, Tibet Museum is suggested visiting. It houses a large amount of invaluable treasures. Visitors can find all kinds of cultural heritage in prehistoric times, ancient religious books written in gold, silver or coral powders, Buddha statues made from diverse materials, colorful Thangkas and many handicrafts with distinctive ethnic flavors.

B– Breakfast     L– Lunch     D– Dinner

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For many tourists, Tibet is a magical and must-go destination. The blue sky, green lake, snow-capped mountains, and the people, the culture, the religion in Tibet makes it so attractive. Travelling in Tibet is more and more eaiser than before because the entry conditions are improved.

Now, more and more people like to rent a landcruiser to travel, even though you can still travel around by flights or trains. The most popular route is a leisurely and slightly circuitous journey down to Zhangmu on the Tibet-Nepal border, taking in Yamdrok-tso, Gyantse, Shigatse, Sakya, Everest Base Camp and Tingri along the way. Mt.Kailash in Tibet. And also many tourists prefer to travel in west of Sichuan, such as Shangri-la, Sichuan-Tibet Highway and so on. They believe that landcruise travel can bring them more interesting experience.

Deapture: Every day depature

 

 Â	Sichuan- Tibet North Overland Tour	HOTEL	B+L+D
D1	  Arrive in Chengdu	Yinhe Dynasty Hotel	Â
	 Arrive in Chengdu, capital of province Sichuan, the home town of Panda. Picked up by the local guide at airport and transferred to hotel.
D2	 Chengdu – Wolong -Danba	Danba Hotel	Â
	 In the morning leave for Danba. We’ll cross the Wolong Giant Panda Natural Reserve, where about 50 giant pandas are bred in a semi-natural environment. After lunch at Wolong, cross the foggy Balang Mountain (4,523 meters) and pass by the Siguniang Shan Mountain (four-girls mountain, highest peak 6250 m), late in the afternoon we reach Danba (1900 meters).
D3	 Danba-Bamei	 Zhuoma guesthouse	Â
	 The local people are called Jiarong (Gyarong) Tibetans. It is said that they are the descendants of the people of the ancient Xixia Kingdom, who merged with the local people after they fled from Gansu and settled here. Danba has long been acclaimed as the Kingdom of Thousands of Ancient Blockhouses. Visit the ancient block towers in Suopo. They were made of clay and block and look fine from outside with solid thick walls. Time permitting; visit the Jiaju Tibetan Hamlet. Jiaju, 10 kilometers away from the county city, is one of the rare places in China that has preserved complete Tibetan style residences. More than one hundred buildings keep the same architectural style with a complete and unique character of Jiarong Tibetan residences. Under the blue sky, the Tibetan residences decorated in red, white and black are strewed at random but also in order from the bottom to the middle slope of the valley. In the afternoon drive to Bamei. Pass by Donggu Scenery Spot (the Natural Bonsai Valley), which is situated at the Donggu Village 21 kilometers to the southwest of Danba County. In the valley, the clear Yak River flows through and numerous varieties of plants are well preserved and the lush and damp forests make it hard to view the sky. Strangely shaped peaks and giant stones form a forest of rocks; ravines stretch out in length and width here and there; and waterfalls flying down from the steep rock with thunder-like sounds. Many lakes and hot-water pools at the bottom of the valley create a world of steam. Too many wizardly sceneries to see, just like the fairyland on the earth. We reach Bamei in the late afternoon.
D4	 Bamei – Kasa Lake-Garze	Golden Yak Hotel	Â
	 Drive to Garze, the real cultural and religious center for the Tibetans living in Sichuan. In Tibetan “Garze” means “white and beauty”, named after the famous temple in the county. On the way have a rest by the Kasa Lake. Upon arrival, visit Garze monastery of yellow sect (Gelug). The temple was built in1552 by Juji Angwengpencuo the disciple of the Fifth Dalai Lama.
D5	 Garze – Yilhun Lhatso -Dege	  Chola Hotel	Â
	 In the morning pass by Manigango to visit Xinlu Hai Lake (Yilhun Lhatso). Located at the foot of Chola Mountain in Dege County, Xinlu Hai Lake Scenic Spot is 98 kilometers from Garze County and 100 kilometers from Dege County. It is 4040 meters above the sea level, with an average depth of 10 meters and a maximum depth of 15 meters. There are plateau spruces, firs, Chinese weeping cypresses, azalee trees and meadows around the lake. It is also a preserve for wild animals like white-lipped deer. We walk on the left side of the lake to its top, the gate of a short valley where the melted snow and ice pour into the beautiful lake Yilhun Lhatso. After that we drive up to the Chola Pass (5,000 meters), get across the steep Chola Mountain, the highest peak of which is 5,650 meters. In the afternoon we visit the Dege Printing House which has always been well reputed as the �Cultural Treasury at the Foot of the Snow Mountain.As the national leading protected entity of cultural relics, it is the biggest printing house in Tibetan area.
D6	 Dege -Chamdo	  Chamdo Hotel	Â
	  Drive across the Jinsha River (upper reaches of Yangtze) Bridge connecting Sichuan and Tibet heading for Chamdo. We will cross over no less than four passes: Khargang La (4,352 m), Lashi La (4,450 m), Jape La (4,680 m), and Tama La (4,511 m), with clutters of prayer flags waving in the wind on the peaks and friendly nomads waving at us from the grasslands. Straddling the Mekong river, Chamdo (3200 m) was the former capital of Kham in East-Tibetan area and has a rich history as one of the earliest centers of the Tibetan plateau and home of Kalden Jampaling, the great monastery founded between 1436-44 and developed through the centuries by successive Living Buddhas.
D7	 Chamdo-Riwoche	 Guesthouse	Â
	 In the morning visit Galden Jampaling monastery. In its earlier prime time there were more than 1000 monks in the monastery. In the afternoon drive over the Zholpel La pass (4688 m) to Riwoche (3810 m). Riwoche means in Tibetan mountain.
D8	 Riwoche – Dengchen	Guesthouse	Â
	 Drive on very bad road to Dengchen. Dengchen means in Tibetan „great terrace? Dengchen is the center of the Boen-Religion, which is a primitive religion based on ancient witchcraft and the worship to god and ghost, and was spread through the whole Tibet before the Buddhism was introduced into Tibetan area. Here visit two monasteries: Tengchen and Ritro Lhakhang.
D9	 Dengchen – Bachen -Sok Dzong	Guesthouse	Â
	 After master Tsuri La Pass (4200 m) and Shel La Pass (4750 m) we arrive at Bachen, the big Yak hair tents. Continue to drive 30 km we reach Sok Dzong, Sok means in Tibetan. At the junction of the Song Dynasty (960-1279) and Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368), 39 Hoer tribes of Mongolians migrated to the present day areas of Dengchen, Bachen and Sok Dzong; hence the name of “the Land of the 39 Tribes”. Besides, the three counties are rich in Chinese caterpillar fungus.
D10	 Sok Dzong – Naqu	Qiangtang Telecom Hotel	Â
	 Drive to the Sok Tsanden Zhol village, and visit the monastery of Nyimpa sect – Sok Tsanden Gompa. After that cross over two passes and reach the city of Shakchuka. Still just 100 km and two other passes have to be mastered before arrive at the today’s destination Naqu. The northern route of Sichuan ?Tibet Highway (Chengdu – Lhasa) and the Qinghai-Tibet Highway (Golmud – Lhasa) meet in Naqu.
D11	 Naqu – Nam Tso Lake-Lhasa	Diren Hotel	Â
	 Drive on the vast Qiangtang Grassland for Nam Tso. Cross the 5,150 m Lhachen La Pass and reach the Namtso or Tengri Nor  along the newly paved way and set up camp at Tashi Dorie peninsula. Nam Tso, the biggest salty lake of Tibet, is 70 kilometers long from east to west and 30 kilometers wide from north to south, covering an area of 1,920 square kilometers with an altitude of 4,700 meters above sea level. It is said the holy lake and the holy mountain Nyenchentangla are a couple of lovers, who altogether guard the vast pasture and cattle. Take a walk on the peninsula and visit a small nun temple of Nyingma Sect. In the afternoon drive to Lhasa (3650 m), capital of Tibet Autonomous Region. The city is situated on the bank of the Kyichu River and has long been the “Holy Land” of Tibet.
D12	 Lhasa	Diren Hotel	Â
	 In the morning visit Potala, which was originally constructed in 637 by Songtsen Gampo, the first king of the united Tibet, and later expanded and served as the winter residence of the Dalai Lamas as well as the religious-political nexus of traditional Tibet. The crowds of pilgrims, innumerable magnificent murals, Buddhist statues, scriptures and rare treasures altogether creative a dense religious and art atmosphere that impresses every visitor. In the afternoon visit Jokhang monastery, the center of the Tibetan Buddhism and the sacred land of Buddhist followers where thousands of pilgrims come for worship everyday. The temple, built in 647, is the earliest wood-and-masonry structure still existing in Tibet. Walk on the Barkhor street surrounding Jokhang, a big free market with its prolific stalls for selling local specialties.
D13	 Lhasa	Diren Hotel	Â
	 In the morning visit Drepung monastery the sacred land of Gelug Sect., which was established in 1416 and the second, third and fourth Dalai Lama once resided in. In the afternoon visit Sera monastery, which was created in 1419 and has always been an important Buddhist seminary. As rose are planted everywhere in the monastery, it is also called �the court of wild rose? Today still 200 lamas live in there.
D14	 Air Lhasa -Chengdu	Â	Â
	 In the morning transfer to Gongga airport (100 km), fly to Chengdu (CA4402 1020/1210).

Quotation Include:
1. Permit: All necessary Tibet permits
2. Entrance Fee: All scenic spots as listed in the itinerary
3. Transfers: Minivan or landcruiser
4. Guide: English speaking guide
5. Hotels: Hotel fees are based on two people sharing one room with twin beds
6. Travel insurance

 

Quotation Exclude:
1. Airfare or Train ticket in and out of Lhasa
2. Meals
3. Your own expense
4. Tips for driver and guide