- Tel: +86-28-85350842
- yattravelsales@gmail.com
- Wechat: YAT-Global-Travel
Travel Details
Home / Yat Trips / Grand China Adventures / Itinerary12Days
| PRICE FROM:DESTINATIONS:
TIBETTRIP STYLE:
AdventureALTITUDE:
500m--4000m
D1, Fly from KL to Chengdu,arrive Chengdu in the evening, Have rest in hotel.
D2, Chengdu—Xining—Tibet Train.
Take morning flight from Chengdu to Xining,have lunch in Xining, city tour to visit Dongguan Mosque or Gereral Ma'sresidence or Qinghai Museum, itinerary will depends on the flight and traintime. And then board on late afternoon train to Lhasa. Train will drive fromXining to Germud at night time.
D3, Tibet Train—Lhasa.
Train start toclimb over Kunlun Mountain pass in the morning, you will have unique chance tosee the no man land Kekexili in the day time in the comfortable high airpressure cabin. Grass land, Snow Mountains and lot’s of animals will full fillyour memory card. Train will arrive Lhasa in the afternoon and then transfer tohotel to have rest to get use to the altitude.
D4: Lhasa.
We will visit Potala Palace in the morning. The Palace is widely known for the precious sculptures, murals,scripture, Buddha figures, murals, antiques, and religious jewelry treasuredup, they are of great cultural and artistic value. In 1994, the Potala Palacewas declared the United Nations World Cultural Heritage site.In the afternoon,we will visit Sera Monastery, one of the six main monasteries of the Gelugpa ofthe Tibetan Buddhism. As one of the three main monasteries of Lhasa, it is herethat the monks “famous daily debates” take place.
D5, Lhasa—Namucuo Lake—Lhasa.
We are going to visit the most beautiful heavenly plateau lake—NamucuoLake, which is 4700m above sea leave, is one of the highest lake in the world, surroundedby snow covered Tanggula mountains. After a relax time on the lake side, wewill heading back to Lhasa and stay there overnight.
D6: Lhasa—Sangye Monastery—Qingpu—Zedang.
Wewill start in the morning drive fromLhasa to Shannan, visit Sangye Monastery—one of the biggest three Gelubamonastery in Tibet, which was designed follow the Buddhism idea of universe,with Tibetan, Chinese and India three style buildings. And then we will visitQingpu—the holy land where many famous ancient monks meditate. We will back toZedang in the late afternoon and stay there overnight.
D7, Zedang—Yongbulakang –YamdrokLake—Gyantze.
In themorning, wewill visit Yongbulakang,the first fortress and palace of Tibetan Kings, was firstly built in 200BC bythe first Tibetan King Sepudezan. It was used as summer palace for followingKings and then was change into a Monastery during 5th Dalai Lama in17 century AD. Leave Zedang after visit Yongbulakang,visit the beautiful Yamdrok Lake en route after lunch. Yamdrok Lake also calledYamdrok Yumtso, is one of the three largest sacred lakes in Tibet. Enjoy thescenery of the lake and the snow-capped mountains around the lake. After visitthe lake, we continue our trip, visit Garola Glacier near lake, arrive Gyantzein the afternoon. Stay in Gyantze overnight.
D8: Gyantze—Shigartze.
Visit Visit the Gyantze Fort from outside,one of the best preserved dzongs in Tibet, where the battle happens betweenBritish and Tibetan army in 1904AD. After that,we will go towards south for about half hour to visit the biggest old Tibetanlord residence PALA. This is a big and luxury residence owned by PALA family,who are biggest supporter of Dalai Lama. In the residence, everything were wellpreserved as before, also have the exhibition of the old style Tibetan noblelife, and old pictures of PALA family with Dalai Lama before they go to Indiain 1959. After the visit, we would head toward Shigartze. Visit TashlunpoMonastery in the afternoon, as one of the six holiest monasteries of Gelukpa,it is the traditional seat of successive Panchen Lamas.
D9: Shigartze—EBC Camp Site.
Drive up to the Base Camp of Mt. Everest, which is about 5150m.Visit Rongbuk temple, the highest temple in the world stay in the yak temps.
D10: EBC ---Shigazte. Enjoy the view of Mt. Everest in the morning, and then driveback to Shigazte , will arrive in the late afternoon, free time in the eveningand stay in Shigazte overnight.
D11: Shigazte—Lhasa. We will head back to Lhasa around noon, we will continue ourcultural exploration of Lhasa. We will visit Jokhang Temple in the afternoon.Jokhang Temple which was built in the 7th century and enshrined with the statue of Sakyamuni which the PrincessWencheng brought to Lhasa., has been a key center for TibetanBuddhist pilgrimage for centuries. Afterwards, you could wander around thefamous Bakhor Street.
D12: Lhasa—Chengdu—KL. (B)
Take flight from Lhasa to Chengdu.After arrive Chengdu, transfer to evening flight back to KL.