【Tibet】9 Days Lhasa-Yamdrok Lake-Shigatse-Mt Everest Tour

Cost Details

Includes

• 24/7 Support Team during expedition

• Group GPS Tracking and Satellite Communication for emergency

• Introduction to Mountaineering Course

• Gear Inspection Services in Malaysia

• Expedition Guidelines and Recommendations

• Local transfer: 7-23 seats regular tourist buses

• Accommodation (twin share basis with breakfast)

• Meals mentioned above

  a.  7 breakfasts

  b. 2 featured Tibetan welcome banquet in Lhasa & The world’s highest altitude hot pot experience in EBC;

  Please take care of other meals by yourself. If you give up the meal due to your own reasons, the meal fee will not be refunded. If there are travelers who are not used to dining in Tibetan areas, they can prepare their own meals.

• Professional Chinese, English or Chinese-English speaking tour guide

• Entrance ticket for Tourist Spot

• Tibet Permits(Tibet Entry Permit, Alien Travel Permit, Border Pass)

• Pick-up and drop-off service at the airport/train station on tour date

• Oxygen and Water

• Experience Team Leader from Malaysia

• Program book

• Expedition T-shirt

Excludes

X   International air fare to/ from China

X   Travel insurance (COMPULSORY)

X   China entry visa(IF ANY)

X   Train/flight ticket to and leave Lhasa

X   Foods in cities.

X   Extra night at hotel or late check out charges

X   Extra land transport fee

X   Any extra expenses arising out of various/ unforeseen situations

      like natural calamities, landslides, political disturbances, strikes,

      changes in Government regulations.

X   Any packed food/snacks, canned drinks, energy drinks, mineral

      water, alcohol, cigarettes, chocolates, nutrition bars

X   Hot shower, laundry or Internet/ Wifi fees

X   All food and beverages other than on the itinerary

X   Personal trekking clothes

X   Any unused item is not refundable or claimable

X   Tips for guide(s) and porter(s).

Details Itinerary

Upon your arrival at the Lhasa airport, your tour guide will greet you and take you to your hotel and help you check in. You will have the rest of the day and evening to rest and relax to become acclimatized to the higher altitude of Tibet.

Meals: None

Accommodation: Lhasa

Travel Tips:

1) Pick up/drop off: Foreign and Taiwanese travelers need a tour guide to pick up/drop off according to the regulations of the Tourism Administration. Chinese traveler without foreign partner will pick up/drop off by local professional Transfer Center. Our staff/guide will contact you in advance, please ensure that your mobile phone is unobstructed.

2) Altitude sickness：With its much higher elevation, some visitors may experience symptoms of altitude sickness. We recommend taking everything slowly, getting plenty of rest the first day and staying very well hydrated by drinking plenty of water to minimize the effects of the high altitude. Usually, you will fine by the second day, but if you do experience severe and/or worsening symptoms, please contact your guide or a member of our staff immediately.

Day 2: Arrive in Lhasa

Day 3: Lhasa City

Today we will visit the Lhasa Traditional Handicraft Center and Sera Monastery.

Traditional Handicraft Art Center

This day will take you to fully immerse yourself in experience traditional Tibetan handcraft art center, including making Tibetan incense, Tibetan calligraphy-the methods behind Tibetan calligraphy and the secrets of block printing.

Sera Monastery
The monk debate in Sera Monastery is held in the courtyard almost every day between 3:00pm and 5:30pm. Please note that in case of some special monastery activities such as the Dharma Meeting or the reception of VIPs, the monk debates may be canceled that day. After our visit to the monastery, feel free to stroll around the streets of Lhasa as you absorb the atmosphere and spirit of the devoted Tibetan people, or you may return to your hotel to rest and relax from this wonderful Tibetan cultural experience.

Meals: Breakfast

Accommodation: Lhasa

Day 4: Lhasa City

Today we will visit the highlights of Lhasa city Potala Palace, Jokhang Temple and Barkhor Street.

Potala Palace (about 1 hr)

Initially built in 641 AD and listed as a world heritage site in 1994, the Potala Palace is the most popular tourist attraction in Tibet. The halls, murals, statues and mountain views will make you shocked even if you are not a Buddhist.

【Ticketing tips for the Potala Palace】

* The Potala Palace needs real-name online ticketing and valid document (such as ID card, household registration book or passport) is required to make the reservation. After the reservation is successful, the ticket cannot be re-booked within 7 days from the day of the visit. If you can not enter the Potala Palace due to the wrong documents provided by yourself, we do not bear any responsibility and consequences.Therefore, it is important to take the valid documents. If the name or ID number or document does not match the information provided before, you will not be able to enter the Potala Palace. Please note the ticket fee has actually been incurred and cannot be refunded.

* The visiting time of the Potala Palace is randomly issued by the Potala Palace Management Office and it can not designate the visiting time. Please note the actual visiting route sequences may be different from the provided one.

* In peak season, there has restrictions in visiting the Potala Palace and each travel agency has only a limited number of group bookings every day. In order to ensure the group tour visiting, we solve the problem through different channels. Due to the special requirements for ticket purchases in different channels, you are requested to obey tour guide arrangement. The normal arrangements are as below：

1）The group tour may be divided into multiple small groups (tourists who book together might be divided, and they join with other small group to visit the Potala Palace).
2）Each small group is divided into different times/dates to visit.
3）Each small group follows the different guide to visit.
4）Sometimes due to some special tickets, the tour guide cannot be with the tour to enter the Potala Palace.
5）The group rate of children does not include the Potala Palace entrance fee. Children under the height of 1.2 meters (excluding) can visit for free with adults. Children over the height of 1.2 meters should inform us when confirming the tour and paying the Potala Palace entrance fee and related service fee so we can make an appointment to purchase tickets in advance. If visitors do not inform in advance, children may not be able to enter the palace with adults and can only wait in the tourist vehicle.

Jokhang Temple (about 1 hr)

The Jokhang Temple is the final destination for pilgrims. A statue of the 12-year-old Sakyamuni, who lived in India in the fifth century BC, and who was the creator of Buddhism, is collected in the monastery. This is the reason why Buddhists consider Lhasa a Sacred Land.

* The Jokhang Temple needs real-name online ticketing. From 7:00am to 23:59pm every day, the tickets for the next day will be open on the WeChat applet "Jokhang Temple Reservation" until the number of reservations is full. Therefore, tickets must be reserved one day in advance.

* The Jokhang Temple does not open group reservation and you should make reservation by yourself. Travel consultant or tour guide will instruct you how to make reservation. If you fail to reserve at your own reasons, we do not bear any responsibility and consequences.

* The Jokhang Temple is a religious temple rather than a tourist attraction. Please note if encountering important religious activities or important activities, you can not visit the Jokhang Temple.

Barkhor Street

Located near the Jokhang Monastery, the Barkhor Street was only a place for Buddhists to do a religious circumambulation in ancient times. Nowadays, tourists can buy exquisite souvenirs on the street, such as handicrafts, costumes, tea, prayer wheels and Tibetan incense.

Meals: Breakfast, Dinner

Accommodation: Lhasa

Day 5: Lhasa-Gyantse-Shigatse

This morning we’ll take a drive up to the Kampala Pass (elevation 4797 meters) where you’ll have a glimpse of Yamdrok Lake down below as well as spectacular views of the holy Mount Nyenchen Khangsar in the distance. You will want to have your camera at the ready for the turquoise waters of Yamdrok Lake, which is one of the three holy lakes of Tibet, and the beautiful Mt. Nyenchen Khangsar glacier as seen from the Karol la Pass. Later on we’ll be able to visit the Karola Glacier.

Meals: Breakfast

Accommodation: Shigatse

Travel Tips：

1) Except Tibet Travel Permit, Aliens' Travel Permit for those who will visit Mt. Everest will be processed in Shigatse. The tour guide will arrange itinerary considering the process of permits. You shall obey tour guide arrangements.

2) Please note the Aliens' Travel Permit processing time might be longer than as usual because of peak season or system failure occurs.

Day 6: Shigatse - EBC

After breakfast we’ll set out towards the peak of the world – Mount Everest. Departing from Shigatse you will see some of the most beautiful and unique scenery in the world – incredibly blue skies, floating high clouds, endless grasslands and the highest mountain peaks in the world. We’ll also stop by the Rongbuk Monastery – the world’s highest altitude monastery before spending the night at the Everest Base Camp.

Meals: Breakfast, Dinner

Accommodation: EBC

Travel Tip:

1) Tibetan Tent or guesthouse (8-15 pax/tent, multi-beds room), from Oct to April next year due to the withdraw of Tibetan Tent in Base Camp, travelers will stay in Basongcun/Tashizongcun guesthouse(multi-beds room)

2) Today the accommodation is poor, the altitude is high, and the temperature is low. Please pay attention to keep warm and prevent altitude sickness. The temperature is about 0-8 degrees in summer night, so please bring down jackets, or rent one in the Base Camp.

Day 7: EBC - Shigatse

We will get an early start today to cross the Gyatso La Pass, also known as the Dingri Boundary, At an altitude of 5248 meters. In the afternoon we will drive back to Shigaste.

Meals: Breakfast

Accommodation: Shigatse

Travel Tips:

If you are lucky enough, you can enjoy the sunrise at the Base Camp. It depends on the weather conditions and other factors.

Please note that this is the only guideline and outline program from day-by-day itinerary. There can be a lot of changes in those dates as per the weather and mountain conditions as well as personal health condition.

Day 8: Shigatse-Lhasa

In the morning we will visit the Tashilunpo Monastery and then continue to drive back to Lhasa.

Tashilunpo Monastery

Tashilumpo Monastery, the seat of Tibet's second highest incarnation-the Panchen Lama. The immense complex is a rambling warren of chapels, shrines, and halls linked by mysterious alleyways and steep staircases. At the center of the monastery is a courtyard that was used as a theater for religious dances. Just off the great courtyard in Tashilumpo’s main hall, where, like the explorer Sven Hedin, we may hear “the monks…intone a chant…enthralling, mystical, full of yearning…soothing as a cradle, intoxicating as wine, and sedative as morphia.” We'll visit this dark and evocative chamber and its many side altars, as well as a distinctive red building called the Jamkhang Chenmo, which houses a massive yet lyrical 90-foot tall statue of Maitreya, the Future Buddha, built in 1914 by the Ninth Panchen Lama while Europe was madly at war.

Meals: Breakfast

Accommodation: Lhasa

Travel Tips:

We may adjust the itinerary sequences without any affection of the spots. The group tour maybe drive directly to Damxung to spend 1 night there on Day 07 and visit Namtso lake on Day 08 and back to Lhasa.

Day 9: Lhasa Departure

Today, enjoy some free time until your tour guide escorts you to the Lhasa train station or airport for your departure. This marks the end of your tour services in Tibet.

Once you arrive in Chengdu, we can arrange a night flight to Malaysia for your convenience.

Meals: Breakfast

Accommodation: None

Day 1: Arrive in Chengdu/Xi'an

Once all participants have confirmed their attendance, we will schedule a meeting to finalize the travel day itinerary. Given the numerous airline options available for reaching the destination, it is essential to plan effectively to accommodate everyone’s preferences. During this meeting, we will review the preliminary schedule, including timings, activities, and meal arrangements, and make any necessary adjustments. Your feedback will be crucial to ensure the plan is suitable for everyone. Please confirm your participation by completing the booking payment, after which we will coordinate the details collaboratively.

We’ll be traveling together to either Chengdu or Xi'an, based on our group agreement, to simplify our arrangements. Once in Chengdu, we’ll catch a direct flight to Lhasa. If we choose Xi'an, we’ll embark on a scenic train journey to Lhasa the following day, which takes over 30 hours+.

Meals: None

Accommodation: None