Tibet/Nepal 2025
Lhasa, Tibet - Mt Kailash - Katmandu, Nepal
July 12th to July 28, 2025
Cost - $6495.00 Double Occupancy (Deposit Required to hold Space)
Ending this tour in Katmandu, Nepal after touring overland through the Himalayas from Mt Kailash. Enjoying spectacular scenary and visiting many local Buddhist Monasteries along the way including the famous Bon Monastery of Gurugyam. Touring the ruins of the ancient Guge Kingdom along with the Tsaparang and much more. Midpoint on the journey experiencing trekking around the holy mountain, Mt Kailash for three days after visiting Mount Everest Base Camp and our touring of the sites and Lhasa, Tibet where our travel began
Tour Summary
Day 1, Juy 11 Arrive in Lhasa, Tibet
Airport pick up and transfer to hotel.
Lhasa is the second most populous city on the Tibetan Plateau after Xining and, at an altitude of 3,490 metres (11,450 ft), Lhasa is one of the highest cities in the world. The city has been the religious and administrative capital of Tibet since the mid-17th century. It contains many culturally significant Tibetan Buddhist sites such as the Potala Palace, Jokhang Temple and Samye Monastery.
Day 2, Jul 12, Lhasa Sightseeing
Tour Potala Palace, Johnkang Temple and Bakor street
As you arrive in front of Jokhang Temple you will see lots of the pilgrims prostrating and stretching their full bodies back and forth on the ground to get the blessing from the Buddha, from which you can will feel the strong power of the temple and also will see the construction style of Tibet in the early 7th century. Then inside the Jokhang Temple you can visit the holiest or the oldest statues of the Lord Buddha which was brought to Tibet from Chinese mainland.
Follow the local Tibetans and you see how they are practicing their religion, like praying beads, praying wheels, chanting, burning the natural incense in the burner, prostrating all the way around on the Barkhor Street with their family. Besides, you will see the customs of Tibetans from different places and the traditional Tibetan architecture.
You will explore the oldest market of Tibet around Barkor Street, there are lots of vendors around the Barkhor Street selling Tibetan traditional apparel, well-curved colorful furniture, jewels, bronze Buddhist statues and lots of stuff of Tibetan Buddhism, you may have chance to see the traditional jewelry being trading by people from a different part of Tibet.
You will taste the local teas in the local tea houses which sell the smooth and sweet teas like cha-yi in India. Tasting the teas with local people, you can feel the strong atmosphere of Tibetan community and get to know how Tibetan people spend the leisure time.
Day 3, Jul 13, More Lhasa Sightseeing
Drepung Monastery and Sera Monastery
Visit One of the Biggest Monasteries in Lhasa - the Drepung
Travelling like a pilgrim to visit one of the biggest monasteries and universities of Tibetan Buddhism, you can explore the halls and chapels inside Drepung and you may have chance to see and hear the mysterious chanting or praying by the monks. You will visit the biggest assembling hall which can accommodate 2000 monks at a time and see the 1st palace of the Dalai Lamas.
Pay a Visit to the Hand-made Buddhist Sculpture Carving
Our guide will take you to visit Mani Stones and Buddha Sculpture Workshops beside Drepung Monastery. You will enjoy how Tibetan craftsmen make Buddha Sculptures and engrave Buddhist scriptures on stones. Such tradition and skills are the essential to Tibetan culture and are known as the great cultural heritage of Tibet Plateau.
See the On-the-spot Monk Debate in the Debating Courtyard of Sera Monstery
It is a good chance to see into the real life of the monk and see how monks are practicing the Buddhism by watching the monk debate in a courtyard in Sera Monastery, groups of monks debate with their classmates in their special way using dramatic body language and mental language to make them become smarter in study.
Inside Sera Monastery, you will see how the monks are skillful in practicing Buddhist art. The amazing and holy Mandalas made of colorful sand shows the spiritual paradise of Buddhism. During your visit in Tibet, if you are lucky, you may see the process of making Mandalas in some monasteries.
The sera monastery is the library of Buddhist text. Rich in its variety such as printing wood block and sculptures. In this place you can get to know, how the religious texts are made. Sometimes in the monastery you may witness the writing of the religious text on site and you may can see the process of printing press in action.
Day 4, Jul 14 Lhasa - Samye monastery
Samye Monastery is famous for its sacred mandala design: the central hall symbolizes the legendary Mt Meru, the center of the universe, while the outer temples represent the oceans, continents, and other features of the Buddhist cosmology. The monastery combined Chinese, Tibetan and Indian architectural styles. The layout was designed completely according to the ideal universe found in Buddhist scriptures. Built on the northern side of the Yalong Tsangpu River, Samye monastery was the 1st monastery in whole Tibet and established in the mid-8th century by the 2nd greatest religious king of Tibet called Trisong Detsen. To make this monastery special the king invited one of the greatest Indian Buddhist masters called as Guru Pathma Sam Bhava.
Day 5, Jul 15 Lhasa - Shigatse
Yamdrok Lake
Karola Glacier
Kumbum Monestary
Day 6, Jul 16 Shigatse - Mountain Everest Base Camp
Gawula Pass
Rongbuk Monastery
Mountain Everest Base Camp
Day 7, Jul 17 Mountain Everest Base Camp - Saga
Shishapangma Protection Zone
Pelkhu Tso
Day 8 Jul 18 Saga - Darchen
Mt Kailash
Lake Manasaronar
Day 9 Jul 19 Darchen - Zanda
Guge Kingdom
Toling Monestary
Day 10 Jul 20 Zanda - Darchen
Donggar and Piyang Caves
Day 11 Jul 21 Mt Kailash Trek Day 1
Darchen - Driapuk 20km (6km by Eco Bus & 14 km by trekking)
Day 12 Jul 22 Mt Kailash Trek Day 2
Driapuk - Dzultripuk 20km (20 km by trekking)
Day 13 Jul 23 Mt Kailash Trek Day 3
Dzultripuk - Darchen 20km (11 km by trekking& 4km by Eco Bus)
Day 14 Jul 24 Darchen - Saga
Day 16 Jul 25 Saga - Gyirong Valle
Visit Milarepa Meditation Caves near Gyirong
Day 17 Jul 26 Gyirong Nepal Border Crossing
Transfer down thru the Himalayas to Katmandu to fly home
Tibetan Buddhists call it Kangri Rinpoche; 'Precious Snow Mountain'. Bon texts have many names: Water's Flower, Mountain of Sea Water, Nine Stacked Swastika Mountain. For Hindus, it is the home of the wild mountain god Shiva and a symbol of his penis; for Jains it is where their first leader was enlightened; for Buddhists, the navel of the universe; and for adherents of Bon, the abode of the sky goddess Sipaimen.
The mountain is located near Lake Manasarovar and Lake Rakshastal, close to the source of some of the longest Asian rivers: the Indus, Sutlej, Brahmaputra, and Karnali also known as Ghaghara (a tributary of the Ganges) in India. Mount Kailash is considered to be sacred in four religions: Hinduism, Buddhism, Bön and Jainism.
Every year, thousands make a pilgrimage to Kailash, following a tradition going back thousands of years. Pilgrims of several religions believe that circumambulating Mount Kailash on foot is a holy ritual that will bring good fortune. The peregrination is made in a clockwise direction by Hindus and Buddhists while Jains and Bönpos circumambulate the mountain in a counterclockwise direction.
The path around Mount Kailash is 52 km (32 mi) long. Some pilgrims believe that the entire walk around Kailash should be made in a single day, which is not considered an easy task. A person in good shape walking fast would take perhaps 15 hours to complete the entire trek. Some of the devout do accomplish this feat, little daunted by the uneven terrain, altitude sickness and harsh conditions faced in the process. Indeed, other pilgrims venture a much more demanding regimen, performing body-length prostrations over the entire length of the circumambulation: The pilgrim bends down, kneels, prostrates full-length, makes a mark with his fingers, rises to his knees, prays, and then crawls forward on hands and knees to the mark made by his/her fingers before repeating the process. It requires at least four weeks of physical endurance to perform the circumambulation while following this regimen. The mountain is located in a particularly remote and inhospitable area of the Tibetan Himalayas. A few modern amenities, such as benches, resting places and refreshment ki
osks, exist to aid the pilgrims in their devotions. According to all religions that revere the mountain, setting foot on its slopes is a dire sin. It is a popular belief that the stairways on Mount Kailash lead to heaven.
Price includes:
All transfers
All accommodation with twin room sharing
Professional English speaking tour guides
All entrance tickets listed in the itinerary including shuttle bus fee and river cruise fee
Bottled water provided each day
Travel casualty insurance
Service fee & tax
Most meals
Price excludes:
Round-way International airfare or train tickets Sightseeing, service and any other meal not mentioned in the itinerary
Visa fee, passport application or renewal fee.
Tips for guides, escort, drives, bellboy, etc.
Personal expenses such as excess luggage fees, laundry, postage, communications and beverages.
Travel insurance.
Optional meals and shows mentioned in the itinerary, which will be added up if the clients desire to take the activities.
Applicable taxes or government fees.
Any other changes caused by the acts of God, natural disasters, fires, weather, governmental and local authority orders, political change, strikes, war, riots, quarantine, custom regulations, damages or injury caused by accident beyond the control of the tour organizer and that has incurred due to the tourist action violating the laws.
Any items not specified in the plan.
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