Travel to the birthplace of Tibetan Buddhism
A Balter on Tsampo Zangbo Aboriginal monasteries in Tibet, snow-capped Himalayas, the monks led religious talking points, go with the pilgrims, the prayers at the threshold of the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa – an unforgettable adventure destination! Samye, Shiga and his way to Lhasa. You can stroll through the most attractive cities, momos taste, delight in the art Gyantse and Baiju May, the curiosity of the army into Tibet to undermine during the Gyantse Horse Racing and pleasure in the celebration of Saga Dawa.
Tour Code: GTT-PT10-11
Begins or ends: Lhasa-Chengdu
Tour Price: Please contact us for an appointment.
Departure Date: You choose!
Visit: People of Tibet Tours
Day 1
Place & Transport: Arrive in Chengdu
Today’s activities: airport-hotel transfers
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Total distance: Arrive in Chengdu, you will clear customs and immigration authorities from China. Hanging with his luggage, he was by our operator in China, known by your name on a poster. You will be taken to your hotel. At the same time get his signature on the documents that allow Tibet and send it to you at the hotel. Overnight at hotel.
Day 2
Place & Transport: Chengdu
Current Activities: Wenshu Yuan, Panda Breeding Center, Sichuan Opera School
Meals: B
Complete route: This morning you can Sightseeing in Chengdu, capital of Sichuan Province and go its administrative, cultural and educational policies. The city is also an important industrial base and the economic, social and political soul of the south-west China.
Start your day with a visit to Wenshu yuan, the largest and best preserved temple in the city. Wenshu back to the Tang Dynasty and was named the 17th Century, after a Buddhist monk, who had his monastery home. The monastery is very active and always filled with believers. The lane in the vicinity of the monastery is also a “happening” with tea houses, sellers, fortune tellers and all kinds of things and people.
After the monastery, visit the Panda Breeding Center to see the adult and baby pandas.
Finally, in the afternoon if you wish, you can take your guide to the School of the Sichuan Opera, to see how children learn this ancient art of Chinese opera. Overnight at hotel.
Day 3
Place & Transport: Chengdu / Lhasa / Xian
Current Activities: Flight to Lhasa, the unit Tsetang
Meals: B, L, D
Complete route: This morning you will be to your hotel and airport shuttle, carried this time for his morning flight to Tibet. The flight times are often a function of time and are sometimes difficult to determine.
Arrival in Lhasa, which has met, and Xian to the top of the Yarlung Tsangpo and rivers. View of the valley, was founded in 1351 by Tsetang Jangchub Gyaltsen, the abbot of the sect of the Phagmo Drupa. In Tibetan mythology, people came from the association a demon and Avalokitesvara, the God of mercy in the form of an ape. Legend has it that the divine couple down to earth to play for in Xian, and the name literally means “Playground”. The monasteries have been badly damaged during the Cultural Revolution. Perhaps the best preserved temple is blood? Initiate zimche religious, housing, an ancient statue of a Buddhist king of Tibet, first, Songtsen Gampo. Overnight at Hotel Xian basic but clean during their stay in the Tsangpo Valley.
Day 4
Place & Transport: Tsedang
Today’s activities: Explore the Yarlung Tsangpo valley, cross the river at Samye and Yongbulakang
Meals: B, L, D
Total distance: Spend the day with the beautiful valley of the Yarlung Tsangpo, the cradle of Tibetan civilization. When you are ready in the morning, drive to Samye. Start the Samye Monastery in Tibet, built over 1200 years Trisong Detsen under the auspices of two professors from India, Padmasambhava and Shantarashita. Here was officially Buddhism as state religion and the first Tibetan monks have been trained and initiated by the abbot Shantarashita ordained. The design of the monastery, as is most of the monasteries and temples, symbolic. Samye is a reflection of the Buddhist world, with the main shrine, as Mount Sumeru, the mythical statue in the center of the cosmos. Chapels, the four continents and sub-continents. Samye was destroyed over time by the fire and the Cultural Revolution. However, it was completely destroyed and one can feel its long history and appreciate the paintings and statues.
Samye, you can stay Yongbulakang, the oldest residential building in Tibet. Its history dates back to the semi-finals? King said Tsenpo Nyatri Êmythical down from heaven on a rainbow. Yombulakang how many monasteries were destroyed during the Cultural Revolution and the current replica was built in 1982 again. You must be very slow) for about 45 minutes on foot (not easy at this point to the building. The ground floor shrine honors the ancient kings of Tibet and the top floor there is a beautiful chapel. Perhaps the highlight of the visit is the view in the afternoon and the shade of color for miles along the barren Tibetan plateau, as the sun sets.
On the night once again stay at the hotel.
Day 5
Place & Transport: Tsedang / Gyantse
Today’s activities: Tour Mindrolling, Gyantse continuous Views Yandruk Tso
Meals: B, L, D
Total distance: Depart Xian, head west along the Brahmaputra. His unit is very spectacular. His first stop will Mindroling Monastery, founded in 1676 by Terdak Lingbo. Despite the relative newness “of this monastery, which is the first of the Nyingma monasteries in Tibet and was rebuilt several times. The Nyingma, the oldest Buddhist sect in Tibet, founded in the eighth century by Padmasambhava.
His fate after Mindroling Gyantse is, and on the street, you cross the Kamba Pass 15,742 feet with a spectacular view Yandruk Tso. Yandruk Tso is one of the most sacred for the inhabitants of the lakes in the region of Lhasa. The Chinese build a power plant here, and people are afraid of the lake, raped and dried. His journey is well along on a river that once the site of the old road. Remember to ask, how you to the castle, where the British captain, Younghusband did see drive. On land, the area is now surrounded by water. In 1904, Younghusband, head of the British expedition to Lhasa, led a major battle and killed hundreds of Tibetans. He stayed for a month in the castle before you to Lhasa.
Late afternoon arrival in Gyantse and drive to your hotel. For what it’s worth, you can actually a massage girl, the hotel, if you dare! Overnight at Hotel Gyantse.
Day 6
Place & Transport: Gyantse
Current Activities: Visit the monastery and Kumbum and Chode Monastery Peljor
Meals: B, L, D
Complete route Gyantse, once the largest city in Tibet in third place, is the head of the valley Nyangchu astride major trade routes to India, Bhutan and Nepal to Lhasa. Enriched by the sale of the wool of sheep and yaks, the gentlemen of the city, the rich resources in the early 1400s for the construction of Tar, a Nepali? EStyle stupa, which contains some of the best preserved and unique art in Tibet and Peljor Chode, the spectacular lobby. In the 15th Century, there were actually nine most important monasteries in the vicinity of the city.
The Tar is really a synthesis of Nepal (Newari) / The Tibetan art and architecture. The building contains 112 chapels, each with its statues and paintings in a very dramatic tone. In moving from the bottom of stories that describe fresco of Buddhist practices and much more. If you have the power, it was worth the climb to the summit and the study of the region.
In addition to the Tar one that is a joy for those who is the Tibetan art of love. The paintings on the wall, are in a style very different from those of the Tar abnormally. Moreover, since most tourists stop to watch the monks of the monastery Tar glad to see visitors and love to show them.
In the afternoon will visit Peljor Chode Monastery, on the other side of town. The monastery was built in 1418 by Rabten Kunzang. Excellent condition, the monastery contains many statues and paintings dating from its founding. Undoubtedly, statues, paintings and thangkas of Gyantse are among the most spectacular journey. Again, you can sleep in the hotel.
Day 7
Place & Transport: Gyantse / Shigatse
Activities of the day: Drive to Shigatse and participate in the kora
Meals: B, L, D
Complete route to get up early to continue the promotion of the west of Shigatse. In the early days of communism, some monks in Shigatse, in collusion with the security office and inform someone from accepting or publishing images of the Dalai Lama. It is hoped that through cooperation with the Communists, to save the destruction of the Temple. Unfortunately, we did not work at all. However, the Tashilhunpo Monastery, the oldest and largest Gelugpa monastery in the Tsang province and the seat of the Panchen Lama, great.
Without doubt, if you do there on the kora, or pilgrimage circuit. When walking, the path is over the hole to acquire dogs as “fallen monks, and in places on merit by rubbing his body against the sacred rock. They are in discussion with local pilgrims, monks and nuns, and Ride will be a real event. Overnight at hotel.
Day 8
Place & Transport: Shigatse / Lhasa
Today’s activities: Back in Lhasa, the Barkhor walk
Meals: B, L, D
Complete route: This morning, before they go, you can take a few minutes and explore the Tibetan Bazaar low. When you’re finished, you can complete your circle and back to Lhasa. Upon your arrival you will be taken to your hotel near the Gu Dhood Barkhor.
Here you can unpack and wash. When you’re finished, you can take a walk in the Barkhor, the commercial area around the Jokhang. That night, asleep in his hotel.
Day 9
Place & Transport: Lhasa
Today’s activities: Explore the Jokhang, Potala and Lhukang
Meals: B, L, D
Complete route we get up early to take a quick breakfast. Clock at 7:30 in the morning to return the Barkhor, Jokhang, Tibet’s spiritual center and the fate of millions of Tibetan pilgrims. The Jokhang Temple, built in 767AD, the first Tibetan Buddhist King Songtsen Gampo in the heart of the Buddhist world. You can walk the kora, or pilgrimage to the Barkhor with the pilgrims in the morning. After the kora is not in the temple and get nangkhor, or in the temple. On the roof of the Jokhang, you can take beautiful pictures from the market and among the pilgrims and the Potala Palace on the hill, on the pitch. Of the Jokhang Temple, the Potala, the former winter palace of the Dalai Lama, built on the slopes of Red Hill, and the increase over 1000 ‘above the valley address is. If possible, use Pilgrim input to the long road and not by the entry of tourists. His visit Potala is complete, you are your dinner at local restaurants.
After lunch, visit the amusement park and one of the jewels of Lhasa? I am the Lhukang, in the middle of a lake. At some point, you can take a boat on the lake. Now the area is a Chinese theme park, and it’s fun to see how people take advantage of the region. The temple is a jewel in Lhasa, and contains works of art to the practice of Tibetan medicine. Overnight at hotel.
Day 10
Place & Transport: Lhasa
Current Activities: Visit Norbulingka Museum of Tibetan culture and sera
Meals: B, L, D
Complete route this morning after their last full day in Tibet, you will begin with a visit Norbulingka, once named Jewel Park and now the People’s Park Norbulingka was the summer residence of the Dalai Lamas, 1755, and was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution. Much has been rebuilt and it is fascinating to see how the Dalai Lama has actually lived. Painted on the wall is a painting of the 14th Dalai Lama and his family? I have only picture of His Holiness is always important in Tibet.
Almost Norbulinkha is a new museum of Tibetan culture, built by the Chinese and opened several years ago. Well worth a visit, to see the two exhibitions, and read the Chinese version of Tibetan history.
After visiting the museum you can have lunch and then head to Sera, in the time of 3 hours conversations. Gelugpa Sera Monastery is a 15th of the Century, founded by a disciple of Tsongkhapa, and is famous for its tantric teachings. This will be the name means “Rejoice in the Most Merciful.” Years ago there was a rivalry between the Sera and Drepung (the “rice heap”) means. The monks of Sera thought their dreaded hail destroys rice Drepung, Sera, while the “date of birth-Dobs, an elite group of warrior monks, the Buddhist leader from the other. Overnight at the hotel.
Day 11
Place & Transport: Chengdu to Lhasa, Flight No. TAB
Current Activities: Fly to Chengdu
Meals: B
Total distance: Today leads back to the airport and catch a flight to Chengdu and in conjunction with the flight.
