Mysterious Tibet: From Lhasa to Lake Nam Tso
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Highlights
- Visit Chengdu
- Explore Barkhor and the Jokhang, Potala, Norbulinka and Lukhang
- Visit Reteng
- Discover Beijing
- Visit Lake Nam Tso
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- Accommodations as listed, including all service charges and taxes
- All ground transfers
- All excursions with expert English-speaking guides
- Entrance fees to museums, temples, etc.
- All meals as indicated with B-breakfast, L-lunch, D-dinner
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Accommodation: Buddha Zen Or Tibet Hotel
Arriving in Chengdu, you will finish arrival formalities. Exiting with your baggage, you will be met by our China operator, holding your names on a sign. He will transfer you to your hotel. At the same time, he will get your signatures on the relevant documents, process your Tibet permit, and return it to you at the hotel.
Meals: Breakfast
Accommodation: Buddha Zen Or Tibet Hotel
This morning you can do some touring in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province, and its administrative, cultural and educational center. The city is also a major industrial base and the economic...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Dekhang Hotel Or Shangrila
This morning, you will be picked up at your hotel and transferred to the airport, this time for your morning flight to Tibet. Flight times are erratic, so you will be notified a...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Dekhang Hotel Or Shangrila
Rising early you will grab a quick breakfast. Around 7:30am you head back to the Barkhor and the Jokhang, spiritual center of Tibet and destination of millions of Tibetan Pilgri...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Dekhang Hotel Or Shangrila
Today you travel to the suburbs of Lhasa to visit two of the most interesting of the Buddhist monasteries. The first, Phabonkha, served as a meditation site during the time of S...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Camping Tent
After a 3-4 hour morning drive, you arrive in the valley of Drigung Monastery, founded by the Kagyupas, descendants of Milarepa. Cut by the Kyichu, this spectacular valley boasts not only the...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Camping Tent
This morning, you can climb up to Drigung and visit the monastery. If you are lucky, you might catch sky burial on the site. Whether you do or not, though, it is worth while to do the kora ar...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Camping Tent
Leaving Drigung, you travel to Reteng, a Kadampa gompa founded in the 11th century by Dromton, the chief disciple of Atisha. The juniper trees around the monastery were said to have grown fro...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Camping Tent
Today you cross the Nyanchhan Thangla Mountains, a range that parallels the Himalayas and is the home of the God of the North. Your destination is Tibet’s second largest salt-water Lake Nam Tso and a wonderful cave monastery of Tashiy Do. Tonight is spent camping on the shore of the lake.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Camping Tent
Few hermitages can rival the power and grandeur of the pre-Buddhist site of Tashiy Do, built into the red limestone cliffs and overlooking Lake Nam Tso. In reality, Tashiy Do consists of two ...
Accommodation: Dekhang Hotel Or Shangrila
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
When you are ready, you head back across the mountains and drive on to Lhasa. The rest of the day free to wander Lhasa with your guide, and a car is available for your needs. Tonight there will be a farewell dinner.
Meals: Breakfast
At the appropriate time, you will transfer to the airport for your flight to Chengdu or Beijing. On arrival, you can connect with your flight out or overnight.
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What's excluded
- International airfare
- Internal Airfare – Chengdu/Lhasa/Chengdu (broken out separately)
- Comprehensive insurance coverage, including medical, evacuation, baggage loss/delay, cancellation ins., etc.
- Visa fees
- Meals where not indicated with a B,L,D
- Tips/gratuity (porters, drivers, local guides, etc)
- International airport taxes
- Other items of a personal nature including laundry, alcoholic beverages, etc.
- Additional expenses resulting from the delay or extension of the trip due to causes beyond our reasonable control
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11 Breakfasts, 9 Lunches and 9 Dinners
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