10 Days on Flight and Soft Sleeper for Lhasa and EBC: Lhasa+ Everest+Gyantse+Shigatse+Lhatse+Rongpuk+Shegar

Global Flight to Chengdu Tianfu International Airport

According to the flight schedule, on the first day, you will fly to Chengdu Tianfu International Airport. After arriving at Chengdu Tianfu International Airport, you will check in at the Tianfu International Hotel.

Chengdu Tianfu—Xining Caojiabao Airport (Morning Flight)—Qinghai-Tibet Railway Soft Sleeper to Tibet

Reference Flight: Sichuan Airlines 3U6341, Airbus A319, Economy Class 09:10 - Tianfu International Airport T2 1h 30m 10:40 - Caojiabao Airport T2

Qinghai-Tibet Railway: Reference Trains Z8991, Y971, Z22, Night Trains

Wake up the next morning to see the most beautiful scenery along the way.

Airport/Station pickup in Lhasa, check-in at hotel in downtown Lhasa

Upon your arrival, your guide is waiting for you in the arrival hall and ready to take you to the hotel we arranged for you before. It is advisable to avoid going out immediately and instead rest well to acclimatize to the high-altitude environment.

Downtown Lhasa: Potala Palace+Jokhang Temple+Bharkor Street

Morning section to visit the famous Potala palace and explore the grandest of this myriad chapels, you will experience 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 etc. Afternoon section visiting to the holist temple in Tibet, the Johkang Temple, built during songtsen gonpo’s reign by princess wencheng of tang dynasty, 647 A.D, and its famous Barkor Kora, where you can buy or appreciate traditional Tibetan artifacts, religious implements, antiques, books, Tibetan music instrument, Thangkas, and tradition tibetan clothes etc. Overnight at Lhasa.

Special gifts: Tibetan-style welcome dinner, travel photography.

Lhasa—Yamdrok Lake—Karola Glacier—Shigatse

Passing by the green farmland of Nyangchu Valley, Yamdrok lake, karola 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 Yamdrok Lake and Kubum monastery in Gyantse. Yamdrok Lake is shaped like coiling scorpion with deep blue in colour and Kubum monastery has a 35m-high chorten (stupa) with its white layers trimmed with decorative stripes and its crown-like golden dome.

Shigatse—Tingri—EBC

Drive westwards the Friendship way to Tingri. 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).

Special gift: Everest hotpot

EBC—Tingri—Shigatse

Early in the moring to see the sunrise from Rongphu then to view Mt. Everest. It is fabulous and splendid.After walking arrive the place get on the local bus 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 more warm, but hard to breath). 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 Tingri by friend-ship highway back to Shigaste.

Shigatse—Tashilunpo Monastery—Tibetan Family Visit—Lhasa

Before spending about 4 hours to drive back to Lhasa from Shigatse, we will visit the largest Monastery in west Tibet, the Tashilunpo monastery, as the last but famous historic sites for your Tibet tour. Tashilunpo monastery is one of the the six great Gelukpa institutions and was founded in 1447 by a disciple of Tsongkapa, containing the world's largest gilded copper image(26m high) of future god Jampa. Drive along the Friend-ship Highway back to Lhasa.

Lhasa—Namtso—Northern Tibet Grassland—Lhasa

In the early morning, drive through the vast grasslands of northern Tibet, where you can witness colorful prayer flags fluttering in the wind and gallop along the Qinghai-Tibet Highway. Cross the 5190-meter high Nagela Mountain Pass and arrive at the first of Tibet's three sacred lakes, the "Heavenly Lake" Namtso, at an altitude of 4718 meters. Namtso Lake is the highest saltwater lake in the world and the second largest in China. In the evening, return to Lhasa accompanied by the glow of the setting sun.

Drop-off in Lhasa

At the end of your Tibet trip, we will arrange transportation to the airport . Lhasa gongga airport- Chengdu Drive: 1 hour Distance: 60 km to the airport Reference Flight: Sichuan Airlines 3U6683, 18:30-20:55, Lhasa

After breakfast, check out of the hotel. The driver will pick up guests from the hotel and transfer them to Lhasa Airport or the train station, concluding a delightful and mysterious journey! Welcome back to the beautiful Tibet in the future. Tashi Delek!