Tour Briefing:
Tour Code:
Tour Catalog: Private Tour
Trip Length: 11 day
Destination: Lhasa, Yerpa, Reting Monastery; Drigung Monastery, Gandan Monastery...
Depature city: Chengdu, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Xian, Xining, Golmud
Ending City: Lhasa
Route Feature:

Itinerary:
Day01: Chengd/ Lhasa ( Lhasa ariport 80km, asphalt road, 3595m,  15-19 centigrade)   
Morning time our staff pick you from your hotel in Chengdu then dropping of you to Chengdu airport help you check in. 2 hour fligth you will arrive at Lhasa Gongga airport. You guide will pick you from Gongga airport to Lhasa city. Rest in hotel.                                              Overnight at Lhasa    
 
Day02: Lhasa ciy tour sightseeing              
Morning time buy the entrance of Potala by yourself. Then visit Jokhang Temple, afternoon visit Drepung Monastery.               Overnight in Lhasa          
 
Day03: Lhasa city sightseeing     
Morning time visit Potala Palace, then afternoon to Sera Monastery.  Overnight at Lhasa. 

Day04: Lhasa/ Yerpa Caves (Dazi country)             Camping   
It takes about two hours to drive to the caves of Yerpa, situated northeast of Lhasa. (King Songtsen Gampo and his two queens are said to have meditated here in the Peu Marsergyi Lhakhang, where they discovered “self-arising?symbols of Buddha-body, speech and mind. Later, Padmasambhava concealed many terma objects around Yerpa, including the celebrated ritual dagger of Sera.

Day05: Yerpa/ Taklung Monastery (Linzhou country)          Camping    
Drive through Tibetan valleys and cross Chak La pass(5300 metres) before dropping sharply to Taklung (4080 metres) in the Pha-chu valley, about 120km from Lhasa. The Kagyu Monastery Taklung was founded by Taklung Tangpa Tashipel(1142-1210) in 1180 on a location previously inhabited by the Kadampa lama Potowa.

Day06: Taklung monastery/ Reting Monastery               Camping    
The monastery(4100 metres) was constructed in 1056 by Dromtonpa, the foremost Tibetan student of the great Bengali Buddhist master Atisha.

Day07: Reting/ Terdrom            Camping   

                    
Day08: Terdrom/ Drigung Monastery      Camping    
Drigung is located some 72 kilometers north of Mozhu Gongkar.

Day09: Drigung/ Gandan Monastery       Camping   
Gandan was founded in 1409 by Tsongkapa, Gandan was the first and foremost Gelukpa monastery, constructed by Tsongkhapa himself.

Day10: Gandan Monastery/ Lhasa      Overnight in Lhasa   
Drive to Lhasa, then free time.

Day11: Lhasa airport dropping off.
Morning time Lhasa airport dropping off, take the flihgt back to Chengdu or Beijing, Shanghai,Xian...