5 Days Lhasa Tour With Yamdrok Lake

Itinerary

Day 1: Arrival in Lhasa - Lhasa Airport Pick Up

Pass By: Lhasa, Lhasa, Tibet
Upon your arrival at the Lhasa airport, your tour guide will greet you and escort you to your hotel and help you get checked 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 included:
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Overnight at Lhasa Himalaya Hotel or Four Points by Sheraton Lhasa

Day 2: Potala Palace - Jokhang Temple - Barkhor Street

Pass By: Potala Palace, No.35 Gongqian Alley, Beijing Middle Road Cheng Guan District, Lhasa 850000 China
After breakfast at the hotel, we will visit the incredible Potala Palace – the highest palace in the world. As we climb to the entrance gate, you will have a spectacular view over all of Lhasa.

Pass By: Jokhang Temple, Barkhor Street, Chengguan District, Lhasa 850000 China
After exploring the numerous interesting chapels and learning about the traditional culture and history of the palace and the city, we will move on to the spiritually significant Jokhang Temple, one of the most important temples in Tibetan Buddhism.

Stop At: Barkhor Street, Chengguan District, Lhasa 851500 China
To see the “real” Lhasa, we’ll stroll through Barkhor Street with its thriving local market where you can pick up some local Tibetan, Nepalese and Indian handicrafts and souvenirs.
Duration: 1 hour

Meals included:
• Breakfast
Accommodation included: Overnight at Lhasa Himalaya Hotel or Four Points by Sheraton Lhasa

Day 3: Drepung Monastery – Sera Monastery

Pass By: Drepung Monastery (Zhebang Si), Southern Slope of Genpeiwuzi Mountain, Chengguan District, Lhasa 850000 China
Today features visits to 2 of the most important monasteries in Tibetan Buddhism – the Drepung and Sera Monasteries. Drepung Monastery is located on the hillside west of Lhasa – at one time the world’s largest monastery with about 10,000 monks living there. A pleasant walk up the hill leads to the solemn ambience inside the monastery’s many halls and chapels.

Pass By: Sera Monastery, Wuze Hill , Sera Chengguan District, Lhasa 850000 China
After Drepung, we will move on to the Sera Monastery. The main highlight of the Sera Monastery is watching the crowd of monks debating inside the shady courtyard behind the main temple. Every day except Sunday, hundreds of red-robed monks assemble in small groups and practice their debating skills – a very impressive sight to behold, as the monks are very animated in their debates about the various attributes of Buddhist scriptures.

Meals included:
• Breakfast
Accommodation included: Overnight at Lhasa Himalaya Hotel or Four Points by Sheraton Lhasa

Day 4: Lhasa - Yamdrok Lake - Lhasa

Pass By: Yamdrok Yumtso Lake, Langkazi Country, Nagarze County 851100 China
Today we will have an extraordinarily scenic drive to visit on of the three holy lakes of Tibet – Yamdrok-tso (Yamdrok Lake). We will travel from Lhasa to Gyantse, driving through the Gampala Pass (elevation 4790 meters) where we will have a spectacular view over the crystal blue waters of Yamdrok Lake. The lake is surrounded numerous snow-capped mountain and in the distance you will be able to see the beautiful and holy Mount Nyenchen Khangsar (peak elevation 7191 meters), which is the highest mountain near Lhasa. After a great day of sightseeing, we will return to Lhasa for the night.

Meals included:
• Breakfast
Accommodation included: Overnight at Lhasa Himalaya Hotel or Four Points by Sheraton Lhasa

Day 5: Lhasa Departure

Pass By: Lhasa, Lhasa, Tibet
Today you will have free time until your tour guide escorts you to the Lhasa train station or airport for your departing train or flight from Lhasa. This will end your tour services in Tibet.

Meals included:
• Breakfast
No accommodation included on this day.