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SG002A 7-day Lhasa to Kathmandu overland tour with Everest Base Camp visit

Trip Length: 07 days
Transportation: Toursit Vehicle in Summer, 4WD in winter
Group Size: 2-20
Special Offers by CITS:
- Free Private Airport/Train station Pick up and Drop off
- Guaranteed Departure EVEN on One Person Basis
- We CITS can help you book train tickets/flight tickets to and from Lhasa.we can guarantee tickets in peak travel season.
Day 1 Arrive in Lhasa by plane or by train
Day 2 Lhasa Sightseeing: Potala Palace /Jokhang Temple/Barkhor street
Day 3 Lhasa Sightseeing: Sera Monastery/Drepung Monastery
Day 4 Lhasa/Yamdrotso lake/Gyangtse/ Shigatse, visit Yamdrotso Lake and Pelkor Monastery
Day 5 Shigatse/Lhatse/Shegar/Tingri/Rongphu Monastery
Day 6 Rongphu Monastery/Evrest Base Camp/Shegar/Zhangmu, visit Everest Base Camp
Day 7 Drop off and Zhangmu Border
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Class/Price for Per personLow Season
(Dec. to next Mar.)Shoulder Season
(Apr.,May,Early June,Nov.)Peak Season
(August)Peak Season
(Late June,July,Sept.Oct.)Budget Class (Lodging: Guest Houses)$800$850$950$900Comfortable Class (Lodging: 3-Star Hotels)$850$900$990$950
Discount: 3 travelers or more book the tour at the same time(5% off)
Please refer the schedule on the right,if our fixed dispatching does not match your schedule, you may email us inquiry@tibettravel.org to set up a new dispatching for you(requires at least 30 days in advance), our company will find other travelers to join in based on your schedule.
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If our fixed dispatching does not match your schedule, you may email us inquiry@tibettravel.org to set up a new dispatching for you(requires at least 30 days in advance), our company will find other travelers to join in based on your schedule.
Lhasa Train station/airport picking up, You are warmly welcome to Tibet by saying Tashi Delek at the Train station/airport by your tour guide and an experienced driver and send you back to your well reserved hotel. Then have a good rest to acclimatize the high altitude in the afternoon. .
Overnight at Lhasa.
The first two days you are in Tibet will be put towards sightseeing inside Lhasa, to visit fabulous and typical Buddhist and historic sites, such as Potala Palace,Jokhang Temple,Barkhor street, Sera Monastery and Drepung Monastery.
In Potala palace, you can explore the grandest of this myriad chapels, its audience halls, the jeweled and Golden burial chortens(stupa Tombs) of past Dalai Lamas, and tremendous number of Buddhist frescoes, thangkas, combinations of mandala, figures of the Buddha You will visit 3 important monasteries in Lhasa, the first and foremost is Johkang Temple, the spiritual center of Tibetan Buddhism, attracts pilgrims all over Tibetan Area, built during songtsen gonpo's reign by princess wencheng of tang dynasty, 647 A.D. the other two Monasteries Sera and Drepung Monastery locate in suburb of Lhasa, are hosted by hundreds of Monks, learning, praying, studying, living there. The famous Monks debiting is held in the courtyard of Sera Monastery in the afternoon.
You will also explore the circular pilgrim route barkhor while traveling at Johkang Temple, to contact local folks here, and if possible purchase some traditional Tibetan artifacts, religious implements, antiques, books, Tibetan music instrument, Thangkas, and tradition tibetan clothes etc.
Overnight at Lhasa
(Notice, the sequence of sightseeing will be based on the reservation of Potala Palace)
Passing by the green farmland of Nyangchu Valley, Yamdro-tso lakes, karo-la glacier roadside at 4960m, We move westwards to the second biggest city Shigatse, the Area spiritually hosted by Pamchan Lama.
The most important attraction for today is Yamdro-tso Lake and Kubum monastery in Gyantse. From the top of the pass kangpa-la at 4700m high in clear weather, you can see the fabulous shade of deep turquoise, Yamdro-tso Lake is shaped like coiling scorpion with deep blue in colour. Kubum monastery, means 100,000 images in Tibetan, is the town's foremost attraction, The 35m-high chorten (stupa) with its white layers trimmed with decorative stripes and its crown-like golden dome, is awe-inspiring. You can visit every chambers in the monastery.
(From the top of Mt.Gangbala, you can see the fabulous shade of deep torquoise. Yamdrok-yutso is shaped like coiling scorpion with deep blue in colour. )
Drive westwards the Friendship way to Tingri. On the way you will pass the checking point with your TTB permit, travel permit and passport, and purchase the entrance of Everest Base Camp.
There is about 90km bumpy road from Tingri to Rongpuk, road is under construction. From Tingri to E.B.C with the very rough road, pass the wild grassland, cross the rapids river and high mountains. If it is in clear whether, you can have a glimpse of 4 mountains which is 8000m high or more, such as: Mt. Lhotse(8516m),Mt. Everes(8848m), Mt. Qowowuyag(8201m),Mt Mayalu(8463m).
Overnight at Rongphu Monastery Tent
Early in the morning to see the sunrise from Rongpuk then to view Mt. Everest. It is fabulous and splendid. After walking arrive the place get on the animal carriage then use half of an hour arrive at Everest Base camp ( Or you also can trekking to Base Camp around 1.5-2 hours one way. It's interesting and much warmer, but hard to breathe). Hiking up to the top of the photo point to take pictures of the splendid- Mt. Everest. Then late in the afternoon around 13:00 go down from E.B.C back to Shegar.then you will go west to Zhangmu with our tour guide.
Overnight in Zhangmu
Our Guide will drop you off at next morning at the border bridge, You are kindly required to hike on your own to cross the border bridge which is 50ms long, then check in Nepal side, you can get the Nepal visa upon arrival with 30USD, please prepare one photo at passport size to get Nepal Visa. Next step, you need to find a car or bus towards Kathmandu, 50ms ahead from border bridge,dezens of car or bus are parking here to pick up travelers;3000 Nepali Rupee for a taxi rental to Kathmandu(50USD) , 50 Nepali Rupee(Appro.1USD) for a bus seat. usually, travlers tend to take taxi, because compared with bus, taxi only takes 3-4 hours, 120km to Kathmandu, it is cleaner and faster than bus which takes 7-8 hours making a detour to country side and stoped many times enroute; End tour at Nepalese Border.
1. All Breakfast (Remarked with B in the itinerary)
2. Transport:
Free Pick up and Drop off by mini tourist bus
Day 2, Day 3: Lhasa City transportation, Private Mini tourist bus or taxi according to group size
Day 4-Day 7: Lhasa-Everest base camp-Tingri-Zhangmu, (April to October: Tourist Mini Bus, November to March: 4WD)
3. All hotel and camping accommodations:
For Budget Class: All Guesthouse, dorm bed
Comfort Class: 3 Star Hotels in Lhasa and Shigatse, Simple Hotel in Zhangmu, Guest house in Rongpuk
4. Guide: Local Tibetan English-speaking Tour Guide
5. All sightseeing and entrance fees listed in itinerary
6. All Necessary Permits
7. Travel Insurance only for accident
8. Entrance fees for drivers, tour guide in Mt. Everest Nature Reserve
9. Car Parking fee and entrance fee in Mt. Everest Nature Reserve
10. Oxygen supply on Vehicle
11. Government Tax
13. Hot Water Bottle supply in winter time
14. Delivery fee of Tibet permits
15. Bottled drinking water supplied in Vehicle
1. Tips for the guide and driver
2. Lunches and dinners, appro. 4USD/meal
3. International and domestic airfare, Train, en route stopovers
If our fixed dispatching does not match your schedule, you may email us inquiry@tibettravel.org to set up a new dispatching for you(requires at least 30 days in advance), our company will find other travelers to join in based on your schedule.
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