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TTCS: 9-Day Tsurphu to Yangpachen Trek Tour
Tour Type: Trekking Tour, Hiking Trip, Walking Travel
Guide & Driver: English-speaking guide & air-conditioned
Tour Highlights:
    • Marvel at two incredible UNESCO World Heritage Sites including Potala Place and Jokhang Temple
    • Witness the wonderful monk debating at Sera Monastery
    • Trekking from Tsurphu Monastery to Yangpachen to experience Tibetan herders and their lifestyle
    • Walk around Barkhor Street to experience life like the locals
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  Day 1 Arrival in Lhasa Sincere greetings & airport-hotel transfer.
  

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: No meals, advice freely available

Accommodation: Lhasa Economic/Comfortable Standard Hotel (Twin sharing)

  Day 2 Lhasa Sightseeing Potala Palace, Jokhang Temple, Barkhor Street (B)
  

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. 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. 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.

Meals: Breakfast Provided by the hotel

Accommodation: Lhasa Economic/Comfortable Standard Hotel (Twin sharing)

Potola Palace
Potola Palace
  Day 3 Lhasa Sightseeing Drepung Monastery, Sera Monastery. (B)
  

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.

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: Breakfast Provided by the hotel

Accommodation: Lhasa Economic/Comfortable Standard Hotel (Twin sharing)

Drepung Monastery
Drepung Monastery
  Day 4 Lhasa/Tsurphu Monastery[4500m](79km,2-3hrs drive) Tsurphu Monastery(B)
  

It takes several hours to drive to Tsurphu Monastery from Lhasa, include 2 hours bumpy road from the main road to Tsurphu, so the 4WD is necessary. the altitude will be up to 4300m and need a half a day to acclimatize for the following trekking. Visit Tsurphu Monastery after lunch, overnight at local guesthouse.

Accommodation:Camping

Tsurphu Monastery
Tsurphu Monastery
  Day 5 Tsurphu Monastery/Leten(trekking 4 hours, 11km) Trekking Day 1: 11KM
  

The first day trekking is only 4 hours, 11km, walk along a green valley crisscrossed with mountain streams. Be on the lookout for various species of mountain goats disguised in gray rocks. Several small nomadic communities camp here for the summer herding months, and you may have a stop into a yak-hair tent for a cup of salt butter tea or some fresh yak milk! Crest the ridge top four hours later, emerging onto a high plateau with a scattering of rock-enclosed huts, and look for a flat area for camping. From day one, the scenery is breathtaking, the landscapes are classic Tibetan beauty.

Meals: No Meals

Accommodation:Camping

  Day 6 Leten/Bartso(trekking 5-6 hours, 15km)) Trekking Day 2: 15KM
  

Today, you will walk along a long big valley, up to the highest spot Lasar La(5300m). Have your first small pass, the Damchen Nyingtri, bear to the left at the cairns at the crest, and descend into a magical valley of lichen-coated boulders, meandering streams and expansive, powder-blue sky. Three hours later, you will cross the Lasar La(5300m) and descend into the Yangpachen valley, with its wide open plateaus, spiky grass hummocks and tundra-like parched, cracked patches of earth, and head towards Bartso. The views of Brize (translated as female yak herder) and Tarze (horse keeper) are superb, and you will feel safe in the care of the local mountain god, Nyenchen Tanglha. Camp near Bartso, a drokpa (nomad) village of five or six houses, surrounded by the juniper used for incense all over the Tibetan world.

Meals: No Meals

Accommodation:Camping

  Day 7 Bartso/Dorje Ling Nunnery(Trekking 4 hours, 15Km) Trekking Day 3: 15KM
  

Leaving the village of Bartso behind, head towards a wide trail leading across the valley and over another ridge, from where you will be rewarded with views of Nyenchen Tanghlha (7111 m), the holiest mountain in central Tibet. Emerge at Tajung village, and then climb gently up rolling hills where young nomadic boys and girls picnic on the plateaus as they watch their yaks and sheep graze. The vistas are, again, just amazing! Mid-day, you should reach the small Djore Ling Ani Gompa (nunnery), near which you will set up camp. It's possible that these nuns, some of the friendliest in Tibet, will drag you into the gompa's tea-house and pass around a heaping plate of yak meat (use the bowie knife provided to hack a piece off) before getting into the requisite photo session.

Meals: No Meals

Accommodation:Camping

  Day 8 Dorje Ling Nunnery/Yangpachen Monastery/Lhasa, trekking 4 hours,14km Dorje Ling Nunnery, Yangpachen Monastery
  

Today walk for three or four hours, following the ox-bow Nyango Chu River snaking its way through the grassy valley, and head for Yangpachen Gompa. This old Kagyupa monastery, with Tibetan mastiffs keeping guard, overlooks part of the Trans-Himalaya range. Landcruiser will wait for at monastery, pick up to have a hot springs at Yangbachen, then drive back to Lhasa.

Meals: No meals

Accommodation:Lhasa Economic/Comfortable Hotel(Twin Sharing)

Yangpachen
Yangpachen
  Day 9 Depart from Lhasa Airport Drop off(B)
  

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:Breakfast Provided by the Hotel

B-- Breakfast L-- Lunch D-- Dinner
Price Includes.
    • All necessary Tibet Travel Permit. (Including Tibet Entry Permit, Alien Travel Permit, Boarder Pass
    • Private professional English-Speaking local tour guide
    • Licensed Vehicle with experienced driver
    • Airport (or train)pick up and drop off
    • Accommodation listed in the itinerary
    • Breakfast provided by the hotel
    • Tourists Accident/Casualty Insurance
    • A container of Oxygen for emergency use
    • All taxes, fees and handling charges
    • Lodging and meal allowance to the guide & driver
    • Reservation fee for visiting Potala Palace
    • 2 bottles of drinking water per person per day
Price Excludes.
    • Meals not specified in the itinerary (All lunches & dinners)
    • All Entrance tickets to the sightseeing places
    • Flight/Trian tickets in and out of Tibet
    • Personal expenses such as laundry, drink, fax, telephone call, optional tour activities, etc.
    • Any losses incurred from the force majeure factor like government control, natural disaster etc.
    • Tips to the guide & driver ( Tips is not required but expected)
    • Single room supplement
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