Overview:
Discover the wonders of Tibet on this 7-day tour. You’ll save hours planning your itinerary, as everything is organized for you. Make the most of your time, and visit multiple cities, while traveling in a comfortable vehicle, with a guide. Highlights include Drepung Monastery, Jokhang Temple, and Potala Palace in Lhasa. You’ll also visit attractions in Yamdrok Lake, Karola Glacier, Tashilumpo Monastery and Namtso Lake and famous Sho Dun Festival.
Attractions: No
Meal: Not Included
Hotel: Overnight in Lhasa
Upon your arrival at the Lhasa airport/railwaystation, your tour guide will greet you and escort you to your hotel and help you get checked in. You will have the rest of the day and evening to rest and relax to become acclimatized to the higher altitude of Tibet.
Attractions: Potala Palace, Canggu Temple, Barkhor Street
Meal: Not Included
Hotel: Overnight in Lhasa
After breakfast at the hotel, we will visit the incredible Potala Palace – the highest palace in the world. Then we will move on to the spiritually significant Canggu Temple. To see the “real” Lhasa, we’ll stroll through Barkhor Street with its thriving local market where you can pick up some local Tibetan, Nepalese and Indian handicrafts and souvenirs.
Attractions: Sho Dun Festival, Drephong Monastery, Norbulingka Palace
Meal: Not Included
Hotel: Overnight in Lhasa
Lhasa’s Sho Dun Festival, alternately spelled “Shoton”, is one of the most popular annual celebrations in the Tibetan region. Dating back to the 11th century, the festival was originally a “yogurt banquet” (“sho” meaning” yogurt” and “dun” meaning “banquet”) where locals would bring yogurt offerings to the monks. Over time the festival grew to include opera singing and dancing performances, a now central element of the annual festivities. On the first day of the festival, the crowning jewel is the giant Thanka painting hung at Drepung Monastery. The rest of the festival is held primarily on the grounds of the Norbulingka Palace, with locals and visitors alike filing in to partake and enjoy the celebrations.
We will also visit Norbulingka Palace. Built in 1783, Norbulingka served as a summer residence for Tibet’s religious leaders from the 1780s until the 14th Dalai Lama’s exile in 1959.
Attractions: Yamdrok Lake, Karola Glacier
Meal: Not Included
Hotel: Overnight in Shigatse
This morning we’ll take a drive up to the Kampala Pass (elevation 4797 meters) where you’ll have a glimpse of Yamdrok Lake down.
Later on we’ll be able to visit the Karola Glacier before continuing along the southern Friendship Highway to Gyantse, where you will be able to see the famous Gyantse Kumbum, one of the most stunning architectural wonders in Tibet. Late in the afternoon we will continue on to Shigatse where we will spend the night.
Attractions: Tashilumpo Monastery, Yampachen Grassland
Meal: Not Included
Hotel: Overnight in Damxung
We will get an early start today to visit the Tashilunpo Monastery, which was founded in 1447 by the 1st Dalai Lama. After visiting this ancient monastery, one of the most important sites in Tibetan Buddhism, we will head to Damxung County, overnight in Damxung.
Yampachen: Far View
Located in Damxung County and 90 kilometers northwest of Lhasa, Yampachen is the first wet steam field developed in mainland China and the highest geothermal power station in the world.
Grassland in northern Tibet
It is located among the Kunlun Mountains, Tanggula Mountains and Gangdise Mountains.It is not only a paradise for wildlife, but also a culturally place with rich sedimentary layers.
Attractions: Namtso Lake, Jokhang Temple
Meal: Not Included
Hotel: Overnight in Lhasa
Today is a great day for witnessing Tibet’s natural beauty. Namtso Lake, one of the famous Tibet tourists’attractions, is one of the 3 holy lakes in Tibet, playing an important role among Tibetans. On the way to namtso the road conditions is very good and comfortable. After that some times on the way also you will see some of the nomads families are roaming on the grass land of the north Tibet. Also on the way to Namtso lake there are lots of real Tibet yak, sometimes if you are lucky you will see some of the wild animals like wild donkeys, wild yaks, wild rabbits and wild fox ext. then also you will pass the pick called Laken La (the height of Laken La 5190m).
Then transfer back to Lhasa to visit The Jokhang Temple.
The Jokhang Temple is the final destination for pilgrims. A statue of the 12-year-old Sakyamuni, who lived in India in the fifth century BC, and who was the creator of Buddhism, is collected in the monastery. This is the reason why Buddhists consider Lhasa a Sacred Land.
Attractions: No
Meal: Not Included
Hotel: No
Today you will have free time until your tour guide escorts you to the Lhasa airport for your departing train or flight from Lhasa.
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