Tour Packages for Tibet
Tour of Lhasa
Duration : 3 Nights / 4 Days
Day 01 : ARRIVAL IN LHASA
Today you will take flight by yourselves to the highest city of the world,
Lhasa, the Capital city of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR). Our guide will
meet you at the airport and accompany you to check in at your hotel. On the
way to the hotel, you can acclimatize yourself to the high altitude of 3,650
meters, while visiting the Nietang Buddha.
Day 02 : LHASA
You will have a full day tour in Lhasa. The highlight of today is the Magnificent
Potala, the winter palace of the Dalai Lama; the place where the former great
Dalai Lama's stupas are being kept; once the seat of the Tibetan government.
With a history of over 1,300 years, the Potala Palace is the treasure of Tibetan
religion and culture, storing plenty of figures of the Buddha, murals, sutras
etc. After visiting Potala Palace, you will visit one of the three largest
monasteries of Gelugpa, the Sera Monastery, and Dalai Lama's summer palace
of, the treasure Park of Tibet, the Norbulingka. After the day's sightseeing,
you will be offered an insight into the daily life of the Tibetan people,
you may also be served tea in their home.
Day 03 : LHASA
In the morning, you will visit the No. 1 Monastery of Gelugpa, Drepung Monastery,
which is the richest monastery ever in Tibet, and is still active today. Then
you will be guided to visit the spiritual center of Tibet, the Jokhang Temple,
where you might meet many pilgrims, who even prostrate by full length to the
threshold of the temple. You will visit the sacred pilgrim path, the oldest
street in Lhasa, the Barkhor Street, which is the place where Tibetan culture,
economy, religion and arts assemble. In the afternoon, you can pay a visit
to the Tibetan Traditional Hospital, where you will see how the Tibetan doctors
treat patients in their traditional ways, and in its library, you will find
massive medical sutras and medical thangkas. The Lhasa Carpet Factory is also
a place you should not miss. The carpets there are all hand-made on old-styled
vertical looms in traditional processes.
Day 04 : LEAVE LHASA
If you have enough time before taking flight to leave Tibet, our guide will
take you to visit the Tibet Museum, which is the first museum in Tibet with
modern functions, where you will have a glimpse of the combination of the
traditional Tibetan architectural style and the modern style. The museum stores
abundant rare items, from the prehistorically cultural relics, all kinds of
Buddha and Bodhisattva figures, hand-written cultural books of past times,
to various thangkas, musical and religious instruments, Tibetan handcrafts,
etc. Here you will find a wonderful Tibet in one museum. You will bid farewell
to the mysterious Tibet and its optimistic people, when our guide transfers
you to the airport to take your flight.
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Travel to Tibet
Duration : 6 Nights / & Days
Destination Covered : Lhasa - Gyangtse - Shigatse - Lhasa
Day 01 : ARRIVAL LHASA
Today you will take flight by yourselves to the highest city of the world,
Lhasa, the Capital city of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR). Your guide will
meet you at the airport and accompany you to check in at your hotel. On the
way to the hotel, you can acclimatize yourself to the high altitude of 3,650
meters, while visiting the Nietang Buddha.
Day 02 : LHASA
You will have a full day tour in Lhasa. The highlight today is the Magnificent
Potala, the winter palace of the Dalai Lama; the place where the former great
Dalai Lama's stupas are being kept; once the seat of the Tibetan government.
With a history of over 1,300 years, the Potala Palace is the treasure of Tibetan
religion and culture, storing plenty of figures of the Buddha, murals, sutras
etc.
After visiting Potala Palace, you will visit one of the three largest monasteries
of Gelugpa, the Sera Monastery, and Dalai Lama's summer palace of, the treasure
Park of Tibet, the Norbulingka. After the day's sightseeing, you will be offered
an insight into the daily life of the Tibetan people, you may also be served
tea in their home.
Day 03 : LHASA
In the morning, you will visit the No. 1 Monastery of Gelugpa, Drepung Monastery,
which is the richest monastery ever in Tibet, and is still active today. Then
you will be guided to visit the spiritual center of Tibet, the Jokhang Temple,
where you might meet many pilgrims, who even prostrate by full length to the
threshold of the temple.
You will visit the sacred pilgrim path, the oldest street in Lhasa, the Barkhor
Street, which is the place where Tibetan culture, economy, religion and arts
assemble. In the afternoon, you can pay a visit to the Tibetan Traditional Hospital,
where you will see how the Tibetan doctors treat patients in their traditional
ways, and in its library, you will find massive medical sutras and medical thangkas.
The Lhasa Carpet Factory is also a place you should not miss. The carpets there
are all hand-made on old-styled vertical looms in traditional processes.
Day 04 : LHASA - GYANGTSE
In the morning, your guide and driver will accompany you to Gyangtse, a town
lying to the south of Lhasa city. On the way there, you will visit one of the
holiest lakes in Tibet, a pilgrimage site, the Yamdrok Yumtso Lake, which is
compared as 'the fairyland in heaven' by Tibetans.
After a short rest in the hotel, you will visit a special Monastery, the Palkhor
Monastery, the only monastery that houses monks from different orders (Gelugpa,
Sakyapa and Kahdampa) in harmony. Palkhor also features its Bodhi stupa, or
Kumbum, which consists of hundreds of chapels in layers, housing about a hundred
thousand images of Buddha, so it is called Myriad Buddha's Stupa as well. After
that visiting, you will take a stroll through Gyangtse Old Street.
Day 05 : GYANGTSE - SHIGATSE
You will take jeep today to the second largest city of Tibet, Shigatse. You
will visit the seat of Panchen Lama, the Tashilunpo Monastery. Each year,
there is a display of a gigantic thangkas of Buddha will on its Thangka Wall.
Beside the trove of thangkas, its murals and other religious and artistic
treasures certainly will impose an indelible impression upon visitors. You
will also pay a visit to the New Palace of Panchen. Stay overnight in the
best hotel there.
Day 06 : SHIGATSE - LHASA
Today your guide will transfer you back to Lhasa. You may need a good rest
in the hotel.
Day 07 : LEAVE LHASA
If you have enough time before taking flight to leave Tibet, our guide will
take you to visit the Tibet Museum, which is the first museum in Tibet with
modern functions, where you will have a glimpse of the combination of the traditional
Tibetan architectural style and the modern style.
The museum stores abundant rare items, from the prehistorically cultural relics,
all kinds of Buddha and Bodhisattva figures, hand-written cultural books of
past times, to various thangkas, musical and religious instruments, Tibetan
handcrafts, etc. Here you will find a wonderful Tibet in one museum. You will
bid farewell to the mysterious Tibet and its optimistic people, when your guide
transfers you to the airport to take your flight.
»
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