17-Day Mount Kailash, Manasarovar & Guge Group Tour
Overview
Combine Lhasa, the Everest area and western Tibet’s Guge heritage with the Mount Kailash kora on a seventeen-day journey. The itinerary includes the Toling and Tsaparang region before the walking circuit and returns through Saga and the southern corridor to Lhasa.
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Route and pace
Duration: 17 days. Route: Lhasa – Shigatse – Everest Base Camp – Saga – Guge – Mount Kailash – Lake Manasarovar – Gyirong – Lhasa.
This is a demanding combination of long road travel and high-altitude trekking. The three kora days require separate consideration from the sightseeing drives, including walking ability, accommodation and support. Confirm the operating conditions and practical alternatives for anyone who cannot complete a trekking stage.
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Request the dated programme for your party before booking. It should identify the meeting arrangements, guiding language, accommodation where applicable, included admissions and meals, and any optional activities. The day-by-day itinerary below shows the planned sequence; the written confirmation sets out the services and conditions for your departure.
Explore the destinations
Daily Itinerary
Upon arrival in Lhasa, our tour guide will meet you at the airport/train station and take you to hotel in Lhasa. In the rest of the day, please rest well and adapt to the altitude.
Visit the Drepung Monastery in the morning, in the afternoon, visit the Sera Monastery and watch the monks’ debate activities.
Visit the Potala Palace, and participate in local Tibetan folk activities in the Local Park under the palace; Visit the Jokhang Temple and Barkor Street. Having tea the sweet tea house to experience Tibetan social culture.
Depart from Lhasa and head west to Gyantse, pass by Yamdrok Lake, visit a rural family by the lake and enjoy farm lunch. Visit Karola Glacier and Gyantse Bally farm land.
Head to the Himalayas after visiting the Tashilunpo Monastery in Shigatse. Enjoy the beautiful scenery of Mount Everest and the Himalayas at the Dingri View point and the Gawula View point. Enjoy the beautiful sunset of Mount Everest (subject to weather conditions).
From Everest Base Camp to Saga, the entrance town of the Ali Plateau, enjoying the beautiful scenery of the Himalayan snow-capped mountains and Pekutso Lake and Shishapangma peaks along the way.
The Ali Plateau with an average altitude of more than 4,000 meters will bring you broad grassland pastures, Himalayas and Gangdise Snow Mountains. On the way, you will pass several beautiful small lakes and finally see Manasarovar lake and Mount Kailash.
Departing from Tarchen to the more desolate Ali Plateau, you will see the wild donkeys running freely in the Ali Wasteland, the stretching Himalayas, visit the thousand-year-old Toling Monastery and the mysterious Guge Dynasty ruins.
Continue to visit the world's largest Buddhist cave ruins, Dongga and Piyang ruins, and admire the magnificent weathered ancient city ruins and countless exquisite murals inside. On the way back to Talqin, visit Tridapuryi Temple, that locals must worship before going to Mount Kailash.
We take bus from Tarchen to Seshong to participate in the Sagadawa Festival blessing activities. Afterwards, walk along the valley at the southeastern foot of Mount Kailash to reach Driapuk Monastery. From Driapuk, you can see the huge straight rock face on the west side of Mount Kailash.
The day’s trekking will be very challenging. Starting from Driapuk, we hike up two steps to reach the highest point Dromala Pass 5630m. After passing through Mercy Lake and the rocky area, we go down to the Dzultripuk Monastery in the southeastern valley of Mt. Kailash.
Walk back from Dzultripuk to Tarchen,which is also the beginning of the Kailash Kora. In the afternoon, we proceed to Lake Manasarovar for sightseeing.At the sacred lake of Lake Manasarovar, you will spend delightful moments, engaging in activities such as trekking, cleansing your body with the holy water, etc
After the trip to Kailash and Manasarovar, drive eastwards back to Saga.
To go to the lowest altitude place in Tibet, Gyirong Valley, 2800m, surrounded by snow-capped mountains and forests. Gyirong Valley has plenty of oxygen and is very suitable for resting and hiking. If any team members are traveling to Nepal, we will drop them off at Tibet border this afternoon.
From the forest canyon with the lowest altitude, we return to the high snowy plateau with an altitude of about 4,000 meters and head to Tingri.
Return to Lhasa from Tingri along the Barley farmland and Yarlung Zangbo River Valley.
Escort tourists from the hotel to the airport/train station, end Tibet trip.
