Tour Briefing:
Tour Code: TTK 005
Tour Catalog: Private Tour
Trip Length: 22 days
Route: Lhasa-Gyantse-Shigatse-Sakya-Lhate-Saga-Baryang-Darchen-Mt.Kailash-Zanda-Ali-pangongtso-Dorma-Dahongliutan-Mazar-Yecheng-Kashgar
Route Feature:
In this 22 days tour,there are too many beautiful things for us to enumerate,such as:Potala Palace, Jokhang Temple, Barkhor Market,Drepung Monastery,Sera Monastery,Gyantse Kumpum ,Tashilunpo Monastery,Sakya Monastery ,and you even can do a trekking from Rongphu to E.B.C.Visit Rongphu Monastery,then take the way to the Lake Manasarovar to see the Dira-puk Monastery,Zutul-puk Monastery as well as the old royal ruins--Guge Kingdom and Dira-puk Monastery,Zutul-puk Monastery in Nagri.In a word,this tour covers nearly all the beaytiful things in Tibet,you can never lose this golden chance.
Summary Itinerary
D1: By air or trans from mainland into lhasa or from nepal side( katmandu.)
D2: Visiting famous potala, bhakor and jokhang
D3:Redicovering drepung monastery and sera monastery.
D4:Serving a free day to client for more understanding on lhasa
D5:Moving forward to gyantse town
D6:Gyantse to shigatse
D7:Shigatse to Sakya
D8:Sakya monastery to Sagar county
D9:Sagar to baryang county
D10:Baryang to our main destination mount kailash.
D11:Spending a day around Manasarovar lake and can enjoy the cool breeze
D12, D13 and D14are on the way circuit
D15:Darchen to zanda
D16:Zanda to ali
D17:Ali-pangongtso-Dorma
D18:Dolma to Dahongliutan
D19:Dahongliutan to Mazar
D20:Mazar to yecheng
D21:Yecheng to Kashgar
D22:Air kashgar-urumqi
Detail Itinerary
D1: By air or trans from mainland into lhasa or from nepal side( katmandu.)
Our agency tour guide will pick you up from lhasa gongkar airport or from lhasa train station to yours reserved hotel.you can relax in the hotel and can refer to books that you have bring along with you for yours trip. If you have any doubt or question, you can ask to your tour guide to fix your next day’s trip.
D2: Visiting famous potala, bhakor and jokhang
Morning section to visit the famous potala palace, which is situated on the marpori(red hill) and is abode of boddhisattva of compassion, Avalokiteshvara. The potala palace is divided into two parts, white and red palace is about 119m tall.the red palace had 13 storeys, golden tomb from fifth to thirteenth dalai lama. Songtsen gonpo's meditation cave is situated in white palace is oldest chamber in the history of whole potala palace. Afternoon section visiting to Johkang temple, built during songtsen gonpo’s reign by princess wencheng of tang dynasty. The most interesting thing in jokhang is the sacred goat head in the Jampa chapel which is believe to'self-arisen' ie not man made.
The inner circuit is also situated inside the temple and is lined with prayer-wheel and murals outlined in gold on red background, which depict the thousand buddhas, interspersed with stupas and relief-images.
Then continued to explore the famous barkhore street which is like core of the lhasa city and you can seen different attracting things there. The famous thangkas and culturally important things like dorjee(thunderbolt), drums, chupa(tibetan dress) are all available in barkhor street there.
D3:Redicovering drepung monastery and sera monastery.
Drepung monastery is situated at the foothill of a mountain and was founded by Jamyang Choeje in 1416. the monastery is divided into two different colleges that is drepung loselling and drepung gomang college. The Ganden podrang is famous among them as it is the government centre during fifth dalai lama and later moved to the famous potala palace during fifth dalai lama. By the time you can also the Nechung monastery located 1km southeast of Drepung and is the abode of the protector deity pehar and the seat of the state Oracle of Tibet. the two main protector inside the monastery is that of Nechung choegyal and Palden lhamo.
In the afternoon exploring the Sera monastery which was founded in 1419 by Tsongkapa’s disciple Jamchen Choeje. The whole monastery is divided into two colleges and there are Sera ‘jhe’ and Sera ‘may’ respectively. Among them “Tsokhang chenmo” where the monks from all the colleges assemble and pray together there.you can also see monks debaiting there in the courtyard at around 6-7:30 in the afternoon section.Note: if you don’t feel tired, you can try for the khora(circumambling around) Drepung and sera monastery.Your tour guide and driver will drop you back to your hotel.
D4:Serving a free day to client for more understanding on lhasa
One day is serving free for you for more inderstanding on lhasa city. There are so many interesting things that you shouldnot miss around lhasa city. Some of them are Lingkhor-is the most interesting section of the city’s main pilgrimage circuit.It’s best walked in the morning, you’ll be joined by hundreds of Tibetan pilgrims. The hardest part of this walk is finding the starting point. The starting point is the completion point of this walk. In one complete lingkhor,you have made round to three most important"JOWOE",the three precious statues ie Sakyamuni in jokhang, Mugyur dorjee in Ramoche and thukje chemo in Potala palace.
D5:Moving forward to Gyantse Town
It is better to leave early in the morning and in about one and half hourway, there is a county called “chushor”quxu in chinese where have to move towards the lhokha(shannan) prefecture. A few kilometers from chushor is famous pass kangpa-la with4700m.from the top of the pass in clear weather, you can see the fabulous shade of deep torquoise. Yamdrok-yutso is shaped like coiling scorpion with deep blue in colour. Far in the distance is the huge massif of mount Nanchan kangtsang(7191m). just a few kilometrers driving through the shore of lake yamdrok-yutso reches Nangartse county and is the largest town on the lake side and popular stop for the night. Leaving yamdrok-tso is a spectacular as arrriving, since you have to cross the 4960m karo-la with its awesome roadside views of the Nanchan- Kangtsang glacier. It was here that Younghusband’s british troops clashed with tibetan forces en route to lhasa.then reached to our day’s final destination Gyantse. Relax a night in Gyantse.
D6:Gyantse to Shigatse
Morning section for Kubum monastery is the town’s foremost attraction. The 35m-high chorten(stupa) with its white layers trimmed with decorative stripes and its crown-like goldendome, is awe-inspiring.you can visit every chambers in the monastery. Kubum means 100,000 images in tibetan. Then experince the life of common tibetan people’s life around the town and also the Gyantse fort. Then moving towards the shigatse city. After finished up yours lunch, you can visit the famous Tashi lhunpo monastery and is one of the the six great Gelukpa institutions and was founded in 1447 by a disciple of Tsongkapa, Genden drup who was first dalai lama. Jamkhang Chenmo, containing the world’s largest gilded copper image(26m high) of future god Jampa.Then in evening you can visit the famous tibetan market below the shigatse Zong.
D7:Shigatse to Sakya
Advancing towards the sakya county where you can visit to the sakya monastery. On the way you will cross the Tso la pass(4410m) and on the long descent from this pass, the Sakya bridge is visible in the distance. The sakya county is 21km from the friendship highway. The sakya tridition is one of the four main Buddhist schools in tibet. it was from here that the whole of tibet was governed during the period of Sakya hegemony and even now there are buildings of historic importance to be seen here. You can see the largest book in the world in Sakya’s great library written in gold. The most interesting thing in Sakya sect is that the sect donot believe in reincarnation and the head of sakya sect will wear white cassock and also marry to birth their child for next generation.
D8:Sakya Monastery to Sagar County
The day’s journey could be little tough as is about eight and half hours driving. There is a check-point about 6km after leaving lhatse and from this point the road is divided into two parts as one towards the Ali prefecture and one towards the mount Everest and Dham (border between Tibet and nepal.) But you are moving towards north west side of Lhatse onto a dirty rough road where the kilometer marker at the start of this route is 2141. through this journey, you can discover many scattered tibetan villages and some interesting lakes like Langso(ox lake). Then you would reached to sang-sang which is 122km west of lhatse with couple of basic chinese restaurants, truck-stop guest houses. Then towards the saga county as day’s final destination and town with every mordern facilities are available in the town. Stay a night in saga.
D9:Sagar to baryang county
Then you are moving towards the Drongpa county, the region around the sources of Brahmaputra river,which is about 167km from the sagar town.then you will reached a tiny dusty on the main road with a couple of basic guest houses, restaurants and a small monastery called 'old Drongpa' Around the monastery you can see a pile of yak heads which is carved with “sutras”and “mantras” like “OM MA NI PAD MEY HUM” which is mantra of god of compassion. And new Drongpa is a small town with a couple of shops, hotels and restaurant is about 25km apart from the old drongpa.then forward towards the Baryang with 4750m above sea level. It is better to pass a night here, as many groups spend a night in Baryang on the way to mount Kailash as none want to spend a night here in on the return.
D10:Baryang to our main destination mount kailash.
The route is a pleasant about four-hour drive, passing through yellow steppe with snowcapped Himalayan peaks off to the south when the weather is clear.there’s a check-point along the way,where you must show your passport and permits. Then MAYUM-LA PASS(5216m) which is the frointer between west tibet(shigatse prefecture) and far west tibet(ali). On the way you can see and experience the life of nomads and see the beatiful grass land of far west tibet. Magical mount Kailash comes into view approximately 90km after the Mayum-la just before the town of HOR QU. You can stay a night in horqu or you can camp at the beautiful lake shore.note: you have to buy entry ticket for the Manasarovar lake about 80Y per ticket and also have to pay about 20y per night in the lake shore.
D11:Spending a day around Manasarovar lake and can enjoy the cool breeze
You can relax around the lake shore and experience the natural beauty of the lake. In the summer time, flocks of swans will gather on the lake, bringing grace and life to the area. You can also seen so many tibetans and hindus praying and circuling around the lake shore for the whole day. you can see snow capped mountains on the background and hundreds of swans gether on the lake will attacks hundreds of thousand to tourist from all over the world.
Camping
D12 Trek day one(Outer circuit), Darchen to Drirapuk 11km
Triditionallya pilgrim undertakes 52 km trekking circuit around mount kailash commencing at darchen(4574m) and crossing the Dolma-la pass on the second day of the three day walk.Darchen is the starting and completion point for the general circuit of the sacred mount. A few kilometers after leaving Darchen, there is a valley called “sarshung” where porters are waiting for their client. They will help the client to take every necessary things on yaks and horses. After two hours, you came upon a grassy plain with populated by nomads. there you can refresh yourself in nomadic tent by drinking some soft drinks there. For this turn in the valley it is another two hours at least before reaching Drirapuk(4920m). You need to camp or can rest in monastery’s guest house made from cement with little bit good facilities than others in Drirapuk. At the opposite side of Drirapuk, there you can see small monastery with its guest house little bit cleaner than others.
Camping
D13 Trek day two, Drirapuk to Dzultripuk 22km
Day two: The second day is the hardest and most tough circuit with the Dolma-la pass lies 6.4km ahead but 762m above Drirapuk. The peak of Dolma-la pass is about 5630m above sea level, so it is better to set off early in the morning as the sun’s rays break over the ridges above.
After taking a rest on the peak of Dolma-la pass, you will decending staircase brings you to Lhachu valley floor, about onehour from the pass. From here it is still four hours trekking to the day’s final destination with no shelters in between. It is better to walk on the rightside of the river and finally reached to Dzultripuk(miracle cave of milarepa). It is advised you to get there before than other groups because of limitted number of rooms available there in Dzultripuk. Take a good rest in the guest room and prepare for next mornings departure.
Camping
D14 Trek day three- Dzultripuk to darchen – 11km
The tour guide will arrange yours time and ask he/she to visit the caves and visit the tmple and shrines that has been built around Milarepa’s cave. The walk back to Darchen is easy and the exit from the valley can be reached within three short hours. At the ending point of valley, the drivers will come to pick you and take you back to Darchen.
Overnight in Darchen
D15:Darchen to Zanda
It is about an eight hours drive from Darchen to zanda, though the distance is only about 243km from darchen. After several hours of zigzagging down and up fantastically eroded gorges and gullies, enters to wider Sutlej Valley and after crossing a bridge, finally reaches Zanda.Tsamda county is the current name for the region and was known as Guge kingdom. And the county capital is located at Toling. Toling monastery, founded by Richen zangpo in the 10th century, was once Ngari’s most important monastic complex.
It was due to the influence Richen Zangpo that Toling became the main religious centre of Guge kingdom after inviting of the great indian master ATISHA. The kings of GUGE replaced the city as a political centre of power by establishing capital slightly closer to the Indo-tibetan trade routes. But the monastery is still important cultural heritage of Ngari.
D16:Zanda to Ali
Experience various landscape on the way to Ali,the capital of Ngari prefecture where nothing special to visit but is good place to clean up yourself. Indus river is drived from mount kailash and flows through this region and finally towards into Pakistan. It is a mordern city with centre of administration, business and shopping. Take rest for one night.
D17:Ali-pangongtso-Dorma
The road condition is very bad as moving far towards north and on the way to dolma,you can isit the mysterious lake pangongtso which the one part of lake is inside tibetan area and other part is situated inside indian teritorry. Over night in tents.
D18:Dolma to Dahongliutan
Set off early in the morning as the road condition become more difficult after leaving dolma. The roads have been distruben by the heavy trucks and soon reach a pass called Tialongtan-la pass with more than 5000m above the sea level. After than its still 7-8 hours way to reach Dahongliutan. Overnight in tent.
D19:Dahongliutan to Mazar
You need to drive 253km to reach mazar but the journey duration depends upon the climate and road condition. Then you will in contact with beautiful Kunlun mountain ranges on the rightside, the Karakorum mountain range on the left side(more close to indian border). You are responsible to check a suitale place for yours camping in Mazar.
D20:Mazar to Yecheng
Yours trip begin to cross the Kunlun mountain range soon after passed by Mazar. The chiragsaldi is the last pass that you need to cross and steep down towards the Yecheng ravine to Xingjiang. Yecheng is situatuted at at the edge of the Taklamakan is a city with a pretty Bazaar inhabitated by Uigur and Han chinese. Spend overnight in hotel.
D21:Yecheng to Kashgar
Kashgar is about 250km from the Yecheng and is the largest oasis in the whole china. the road condition is very smooth with black tar road runs through the adge of Taklamakan desert. The scenery is very excellent with grey-black rocks and sand dunes compose the major features of the landscape of Taklamakan. The most interesting thing is that you should not miss the Sunday market as you reached there on Sunday is one of the largest weekly markets of asia. Specially in the morning you can abserve the highway is crowded with full-load donkey trucks carrying vegetable, fruits men, children and women. Overnight in hotel at Kashgar
D22:Air kashgar-Urumqi-Beijing
Driver and your tour guide will see you off to the airport and then flight to Urumqi and then towards beijing
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WHAT OUR AGENCY PROVIDE FOR YOUR Trekking Tour?
CITS Provide three levels of Service, from Basic Service to VIP Service, you may pick the service you need from all the service we provide according to your budget planning;
Basic Service Package
Basic Service is the necessary Service you need at least for your trekking Tour, include Tour Guide, Vehicle rental, and Permits, if you are aprofessional packpacker and you can do a lot of things by yourself when travelling, basic service package is most economical for you.
Besides these basic Service, you are kindly required to prepare you own sleeping bag, tent, out door cookware, you also need to backpack your own bag and cook by yourself while trekking. More this, you can enjoy the bargain with hostels and restaurants enroute.
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The basic Service Include:
1.TOUR GUIDE
our agency will provide an experienced local Tibetan guide with fluent in english.
2. Driver
our agency will provide an experienced professional Tibetan driver for you during your Tibet trip. All the drivers have atleast five years of experience in Tibet.
3:Vehicle:
we provide you land cruser.
The number of seats per jeep is six person including driver and your tour guide. The back seats should not use for most of time as it is reserve for yours luggages. If your group exceed more than four person, you should request for another vehicle.
Trucks: we also provide you trucks for luggages and the basic cooking utencils for big groups.
4. A set of Tibet Permits:
Alien’s permit:the permit issue by the public security bereau of tibetan Autonomous region for the alien’s to travel unopened areas are called PBS or Alien’s travel permit.
Entry permit: is a permit issued by the Tibet Tourist Bureau is necessary to enter lhasa and any other parts of Tibetan Autonomous region. Entry permit is a compulsury document which you should get before you enter tibet no matter from china mainland or from Nepal.
Militery permit: this permit is issued only for the foriegners to travel through senitive borders of tibetan autonomous region like mount Kailash, toling monastery and so on.
5. Oxygen supply
The oxygen is very important specially at high altitude like mount Kailash areas due to insufficient oxygen. Our agency will provide five bottles of oxygen per person during trekking and one bottle can use about half an hour. In the emergency case,you can use oxygen for few hours on the way back to Darchen for futher treatment in clinics.
Extended to Basic Service Package, we provide Advanced service and VIP service
Advanced Service
Advanced service paclage always put towards to people who is not professinal traveler, need more care while travelling in Tibet and in a mid class budget; they need travel agency provide Vehicle, accommodation, tour guide, cook service, basic outdoor equipment, yak and porter to carry on some heavy lugguages. Our travel agency will provide overall but simple care on each aspect of their Tibet Tour.
Advanced service include
1:Hotels and guest houses:
2:Water proof tents, outdoor mats, camp light, Sleeping bags
3:Entrance tickets
4:Basic cooking utensils and Fuel
5:Temporary cooker during 3 days Mt.Kailash treking
6:Yak and potter only for yours heavy luggages and utencils during trekking for individual.
VIP Service
Extended to basic Service, advanced service, you can make your tour more comfortable and choose VIP Service:
VIP service include
1:Horse for ride during 3 days Mt.Kailash treking
2:Professional cooker
3:Meals
If you need the Advanced service and VIP service, please contact us to get more information
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