8 days Lhasa to Nepal over land tour

Attraction: Potala Palace, Jokhang Temple, Barkor Street 

Taking a visit to Lhasa, a trip to Potala Palace is a must as it is the largest monastery of its type in the world and the highest elevation palace of the world, in which the altitude is up to 3700 meters. Then move to Jokhang Monastery, where monks receive their official training and education. The surrounding Jokhang Monastery of is Barkhor Street. Walk along this street of eight corners, which will afford us a window into Tibetan culture and an opportunity to buy colorful ethnic handicrafts rarely seen outside of Tibet.

Tips: When you enter into a temple or monastery in Tibet, please take off your hats at the entrance to show your respects and follow the clockwise direction for visiting. No smoking, do not touch the Buddha statues, turn the Buddhism scriptures, or toll the bell.

The awe-inspiring Potala Palace, perched high above much of Lhasa, is the landmark of the city. The palace, which consists of the Red Palace, the White Palace, and some attached buildings, was a complex of political and religious function. Now it is a vast treasure house for materials and articles of Tibetan history, religion, culture, and arts.

Located at the center of the old Lhasa, Jokhang Temple is the spiritual center of Tibet. Built-in 647 by Songtsen Gampo, it has a history of more than 1,300 years. The temple is the beautiful product of Han, Tibetan, and Nepalese architecture techniques. Jokhang Temple also houses many invaluable cultural relics. Every year, the Great Prayer Festival is held here.

Barkhor Street is a famous commercial and commodity-distributing center in Lhasa, consisting of more than 120 handicraft shops and more than 200 stalls. It is the right choice that should never be missed by tourists coming to Lhasa, for you can buy anything

Tibet-related, from sacks of incense, chunks of yak butter to monk outfits. Barkhor is the road that pilgrims tramped out around Jokhang Temple through centuries. When walking along Barkhor Street, you should move in the clockwise direction.

Stay overnight in Lhasa Tashi Nota Hotel or Snow heaven Hotel, similar standard Shangbala Hotel ****

After breakfast, enjoy your one-day city tour today that starts with a visit to Drepung Monastery, then continue your trip to Norbulingka and Sera Monastery.

In Lhasa Located 5 km from Lhasa, the Drepung Monastery is considered one of the three great monasteries in Tibet. It was first built in 1416 and held 7,700 monks in its heyday. In the Tibetan language, the Drepung monastery means the monastery of collecting rice. Norbulingka means Jewel Garden. First, built-in 1751, it borrowed the architectural style from the inland areas of China while maintaining local ethnic and religious features. Norbulingka served as a traditional summer palace and residence starting with the 7th Dalai Lama, and now it is the most extensive garden in Tibet. In the afternoon, the Sera Monastery will be the right choice as well. It is the last of the three principal Yellow Sect monasteries built in Lhasa. The setting itself is stunning with cobbled alleyways, temples, and colleges. The highlight of visiting Sera Monastery will be watching monks debating inside the shady courtyard behind the main temple. Every day, hundreds of red-robed monks assemble in small groups and practice their debating skills. Tips: During the family visiting, if you will take a seat, please cross your legs, do not stretch your legs forward, and face your sole to others. When the host offers you a cup of wine, please use your ring finger to dip a little of it. Then flick it in the air to express respects to heaven, the earth, and the ancestors before sipping the wine. The host will fill the cup, and you retake a sip of the local wine. After the host fills your cup for the fourth time, you have to bottom it up.

Stay overnight in Lhasa Tashi Nota Hotel or Snow heaven Hotel, similar standard Shangbala Hotel ****

Attraction: Yamdrok Lake, Karola Glacier, Kumbum Monastery and Palko Pagoda 

Lhasa Gyangtse Shigatse

Today, you will drive to Shigatse in the morning, on the way, take a view for the beautiful Yamdrok Lake, and visit Palkhor Monastery and Kumbum Pagoda. Stay overnight at Shigatse.

Located 250 km southwest of Lhasa at an altitude of 3,840 meters, Shigatse is the second-largest city in Tibet, with a population of 80,000. It used to be the traditional capital of the area known as U- Tsang on the Nepal border.

Yamdrok Lake is one of the three holiest lakes in Tibet. It is located 100 km southwest of Lhasa and surrounded by Mt. Kampala, Mt. Nyinchenkhasa, Mt. Chetungsu, and Mt. Changsamlhamo. The holy lake is a pilgrimage site for Tibetans. Every summer, groups of pilgrims trek there to pray and receive blessings. The turquoise blue lake has indescribable scenic beauty, prompting the Tibetans to compare it with a fairyland in heaven.

p.s. From November to March of the next year, the water of Yamdrok Lake will freeze due to the weather condition.

Located 100 km east of Shigatse, Palkhor Monastery is a monastery with the characteristics of Han, Tibetan and Nepali architecture. It enjoys a high status in Tibet Buddhism history because it houses three sects – Sakyapa, Kadampa, and Gelugpa together.

Palkhor also features its Kumbum in Tibet. Deemed as the symbol of the monastery, the spectacular ‘stupa’ consists of hundreds of chapels in layers, housing about a hundred thousand images of various icons, in total, there are about 33,000 statues. After that, drive to Shigatse. It will take a 2-hour driving distance.

Accommodation: Shigatse Gesar 4 star Standard Hotel 

Attraction: Explore the landscape, passing through different passes.

We’ll leave Shigatse after getting your Alien’s travel permit and then drive to Lhatse. It is a small town where you can take lunch. After that, you will drive to Shegar, and if the weather is clear enough, then on the way down to shegar, you will view the Mt, Everest in the distance.

Stay overnight at EBC Guesthouse / Tent

Attraction: Hikes about 4-5 km till tent place from Rongbuk, drive to Old Tingri

You can spend half of your day at Rongbuk, where you can visit the monastery, as well as do hikes near around, but you can only hike till to the tent station. The afternoon takes the short way to old Tingri, which will be on a dusty road about 70km. But spectacular landscape.

Stay overnight at Snow leopard hotel.

Attraction: Himalaya range, Shishakpangma, Pelku Tso

Today you will drive to Kyirong, which is a newly opened border after the massive earthquake in Nepal in 2015, the original border was closed because of the earthquake. On the way, you will drive through the Himalaya range and see snow-capped mountains, as well as Mt.Shishakpangma, which is the only one mountain from the Himalaya over 8+, whole mountain is on the China side. Later on, Drive continues to Kyirong cross the Gongtangla pass over 5000.

Stay overnight at Kyirong hotel 

Your guide and driver will help you to pass out from China custom and immigration. Our company will arrange your transportation from the Nepal Gyirong border to Kathmandu. For the private Jeep service fee is 180 USD total cost. If there has group of people. we arrange the 5 people for one Jeep, and it will cost you 45 USD per person