Kailash Tour

Kailash is actually an Indian word and Tibetans used to call it Kangrenpoche or Kangkartesi which means the "precious jewel of snow". Why it is so called is because during hot summer, the snow on the surrounding mountains melts out and it is only mount Kailash that is covered with snow for the whole year. From the Buddhist point of view, it is believed that Godess White Tara had first initiated the circumambulating circuit for the local Tibetan people because nobody at that time knew the circuit. That's why there is a pass with altitude of 5630m called Dolma-la pass which was termed after godess Tara (Dolma in Tibetan).

The splendid day of a year is the Festival of Saga Dawa, which marks the enlightenment of Sakyamuni, and occurs on the full moon day of the fourth Tibetan month. Saga dawa is particularly popular time to visit mount Kailash as Tibetan from every parts of Tibet gathering in Darchen for the preparation of their circumambling around mount Kailash. Tibetans believe that the more times circling around the Kailash earns the more merits in life.

CITS offers a series of tours of western Tibet including Mt. Kailash and Lake Manasarovar. CITS also combines Everest Base Camp, Guge Kingdom to the Kailash Tours. In fact, Kailash deserves your visit if you get a holiday around 10 days for the road condition of western Tibet has been greatly improved in recent years. Most of the roads are tarred so that even cars and mini-buses are transitable and less time is spent on the road. However, we know that Kailash tour is a high personal expense, we are trying to organize group tour to cut down the price to less than 3000USD per person. If you are interested to join in a tour group to Mt. Kailash, please do not hesitate to contact us.