13-Day EBC & Kailash Kora Tour ( Closed )

Day By Day Itinerary    ( B - Breakfast, L - Lunch, D - Dinner )

We offer free pick-up service from Lhasa Airport. If it doesn't fit with your schedule, or you are taking train to Lhasa, we also offer individual Airport & Railway Station pick-up service with extra charge. See detailed in the Booking Note A.

From Lhasa Airport to Lhasa city, usually takes about 1.5hrs; from Lhasa Railway Station to Lhasa city, about 20mins. After transfer to hotel, try to rest & drink as much water as you can to better acclimatize the high altitude.

Overnight in Lhasa ( 3 star hotel

Highlights: Potola Palace, Jokhang Temple, Barkhor Street

This morning, visit Potala Palace. It is more than 3,700 meters above sea level and it is the highest palace in the world! At the top the palace called golden roofs, you can have a bird-eye view of the whole of Lhasa. In the distance there are undulating mountain ranges, the beautiful Lhasa River, tracts of fields, tree-shaded villages and the glistening Jokhang Temple.

Afternoon, visit Jokhang Temple, it is the first built during the period of Sontsan Gambo in the 7th century, features Buddhist prayer wheels, reclining deer, golden sutra streamers. You'll find that many Pilgrims pray before the monastery.

The circuit around it called Barkhor Street, a famous local handmade crafts market, which is a good place to purchase souvenirs.

Overnight in Lhasa ( 3 star hotel )

Highlights:
AM: Subject to change! one of these three: Drepung Monastery, Drak Yerpa, Ganden Monastery
PM: Sera Monastery

AM: Drepung Monastery was built in 1416 and is the largest monastery of the Gelug Sect. It covers an area of 250,000 square meters. Drak Yerpa is a place that has deep meanings in the Tibetan spiritual culture. There is a saying goes like this: "Lhasa is the shrine of Tibet, Drak Yerpa is the shrine of Lhasa. Not seeing Drak Yerpa in Lhasa is just like making a dress without the collar." The entrance to the Yerpa Valley is about 16 km northeast of Lhasa on the northern bank of the Kyichu River. From there, it is another 10 km to the famous ancient meditation caves.

Ganden Monastery is one of the 'great three' Gelukpa university monasteries of Tibet, located at the top of Wangbur Mountain, Tagtse County, 36 kilometers ENE from the Potala Palace in Lhasa, at an altitude of 4,300m.

PM: Sera Monastery is located in the northern suburb of Lhasa City. The monastery was named Sera which means wild rose in the Tibetan language, because the hill behind it was covered with wild roses in bloom when the monastery was built. From of Mon ~ Fri, every afternoon, you ll be able to see monks debating at Sera Monastery.

Overnight in Lhasa ( 3 star hotel )

Highlights: Yamdrok Lake, Karo-la Glacier, Pelkhor Monastery

It takes you about 1.5 hrs to drive from Lhasa to Kambala Pass[4794m high], visit Yamdrok Lake there, which is one of the three holy lakes in Tibet.

Mt Nojin Kangsang stands tall with an elevation of 7,191 m (23,592 ft) between Gyantze County and Nagarzê County, with several snow-capped mountains over 6,000 m (19,685 ft) surrounding it. Mount Nojin Kangsang is the most accessible glacier site on the Tibetan Plateau. The famous Kharola Glacier (elevation 5,560 m or 18,241 ft) is below the south ridge of Nojin Kangsang.

Palkhor Monastery lies about 230 kilometers south of Lhasa and 100 kilometers east of the Shigatse Prefecture, at the foot of Dzong Hill. It is well-known for its Kumbum, which has 108 chapels in its four floors. The multi-storied Kumbum Stupa was crowned with a golden dome and umbrella, surrounded with more chapels filled with unique religious statues and murals.

Overnight in Shigatse ( 3 star hotel )

Highlights: Tashilump Monastery
Optional: Rongbuk Monastery

Visit Tashilunpo Monastery in the morning. It is one of the Six Big Monasteries of Gelugpa (or Yellow Hat Sect) in Tibet. Also called the Heap of Glory, the monastery is located at the foot of Drolmari (Tara's Mountain), Shigatse. Founded by the First Dailai Lama in 1447, the monastery's structure was expanded by the Fourth and successive Panchen Lamas. It covers an area of nearly 300,000 square meters. The main structures found in the monastery are Maitreya Chapel, Panchen Lama's Palace and Kelsang Temple. Tashilhunpo is the seat of Panchen Lama since the Fourth Panchen Lama took charge in the monastery, and there are now nearly 800 lamas.

Drive to Rongbuk Monastery in the afternoon. It's bumpy road with stone paved from Tingri to Rongbuk Monastery which takes abt 3 hrs’ drive. After your arrival, rest for acclimatization at the guesthouse of Rongbuk monastery, explore around and visit the highest monastery in the world on your own expense or enjoy the stunning sunset if the weather is good.

Overnight in Guesthouse of Rongbuk Monastery or nomad tent in EBC

Highlights: Everest Base Camp

Get up early, you can enjoy the stunning sunrise at the top of the world. Then drive to Mt. Everest Base Camp [5200m] and touch the roof of the world. Drive to Shigatse in the afternoon.

Overnight in Saga ( Guesthouse ).

Overnight in Manasarovar ( Guesthouse )

Highlights: Lake Manasarovar

Lake Manasarovar is the most venerated of all Tibet's many sacred lakes. It is especially sacred to Hindus, who have been walking round it for approaching 2,000 years. Buddhists associate the lake with Maya, Buddha's mother.

Hindu and Buddhist cosmology had it that nearby Mt. Kailash is the centre of the world and that Manasarovar is the source of four of Asia's great rivers.

Pilgrims come here to perform the kora, the sacred clockwise walk around the lake, and Hindus ritually bathe in it. You meet groups of Indians, huddled and suffering in the cold, thin air, and tough, wind-burned Tibetans in their heavy fleece coats, trudging remorselessly around the lake, oblivious to things of this world such as startling natural beauty. Although dirt poor, they will have struggled their way for thousands of kilometres to get to this desolate place.

Overnight in Darchen ( Guesthouse )

Hightlights: Mt Kailash

Every year, thousands make a pilgrimage to Kailash, following a tradition going back thousands of years. Pilgrims of several religions believe that circumambulating Mount Kailash on foot is a holy ritual that will bring good fortune. The peregrination is made in a clockwise direction by Hindus and Buddhists. Followers of the Jain and Bonpo religions circumambulate the mountain in a counterclockwise direction. The path around Mount Kailash is 52 km (32 mi) long.

Camping near Dirapuk Monastery

Camping near Zutulpuk Monastery

Drive from Darchen - Payang

Overnight in Payang ( Guesthouse )

Overnight in Zhangmu ( 3 star hotel ).

After breakfast, drive to China-Neapl Border, Friendship Bridge, and you will head to Nepal on your own.
End of tour!

Price List for this tour (Price per person in US dollars)

Price inclusion: 1. Accommodations ( 3 star hotels, guesthouses or Camping) as listed 2. All the necessary Permits: including TTB, Tibet Entry permit 3. Breakfasts 4. Mini Van or coach according to group size 5. Gas and parking fee of the vehicle 6. Local English-speaking Tibetan tour guide 7. All entrance fees as listed 8. Government Tax

Price exclusion: 1. Tips to your tour guide and driver (suggested US$ 5 per day per person) 2. China visa, All air tickets and train tickets to and from Tibet. 3. Accommodation & Services of non-Tibet parts; 4. Lunch and dinner, your guide will assist you to locate the local comfortalbe restaurants. 5. Private expense like laundry, IDD calls, drinks in the room, etc. 6. Extra expenses and/of additional days caused due to unexpected events (delays, porterage because of land slides and other natural events.)

Booking Note A 1. All the group tours above must be booked two months in advance. For less than two months booking, please contact your trip advisor for the tour availability. 2. Prices listed above are based per person with double occupancy and breakfast. If you prefer a single room on your own, please contact your trip advisor to get the quotation for the extra single supplement. 3 The listed prices exclude transportation cost to and from Lhasa. 4. The prices inlude the complimentary transfer service from airport to Lhasa downtown at 3:20 pm and Lhasa downtown to airport at 12:00 pm; from Lhasa train station to Lhasa downtown at 8:00pm and Lhasa downtown to Lhasa train station at 9:00am. If your arrival or departure time is outside our complimentary transfer time, you arrange your transfer on your own or book our private transfer service as below: Private van airport transfer service: RMB 300 per ride per van Private van train station transfer service: RMB 150 per ride per van Booking Note B 3-day Kailash Kora 1)During the 3-day Kailash Kora, you'll have to prepare instant food of your own. 2)During the 3-day Kailash Kora, we'll provide tent, sleep bags. 3)During the 3-day Kailash Kora, you can hire yaks & yak workers in Darchen to make the kora easier with an extra expense. You can book from us or book at Darchen yourself. Usually, 3 yaks & 1 yak worker work for 2 travellers. Yak:CNY 100~120 /yak/day Yak Worker: CNY 100~120 /worker/day

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