Tibet Monastery Tour

A representative from Himalayan trekkers with your nameplate will be waiting for you at the airport. After meeting, greeting and welcoming, you will be transferred to the hotel.

In case of early arrival sightseeing to Pashupatinath temple area and Bouddhanath stupa area. Otherwise, stroll around Thamel and rest in the hotel.

 Overnight.

After a warm breakfast, you will be received by the city tour guide with a private vehicle for the sightseeing of Kathmandu durbar square, swaymbhunath (monkey temple) and will also explore the evening local markets.

Overnight.

After early breakfast, you will be transferred to the airport for a scenic flight to Gongar airport and transferred to Lhasa where the representative of Himalayan trekkers will be there in the Gongar airport.

Free to explore the local markets and streets in the evening. Overnight. 

After breakfast, we will visit the Potala Palace, the Palace of the Dalai Lama. This architectural masterpiece is the symbol of unity of the Tibetans. This palace was built by King Soongtsan Gampo, who was married to Princess Wen Cheng Tang in 641 A.D. It has got 999 houses built on Hongshan Hill with a red building on top. It is one of the grandest palaces in the world to date.

After lunch, we will drive towards the Jokhang Temple, the most sacred temple for Tibetan Buddhists. After spending some time at the Jokhang temple we will walk through Barkhor Street, a traditional old street in Lhasa.

We will start the sightseeing today from Norbulingka - the summer palace of the Dalai Lama, located along the Kyichu River and two kilometers west of the Potala Palace. This Palace has a huge garden covering 360,000 square meters, making it the biggest man-made garden in Tibet. It has got 374 rooms. The second site is Drepung Monastery, made by Chojey Tashi Palden in the 14th Century. It had four departments, of which Loseling, or "The Hermitage of the Radiant Mind," was the largest, housing more than three-quarters of Drepung's ten to fifteen thousand monks. Now it is one of Tibet’s premier monastic educational institutions.

The last site for today is Sera Monastery, built-in 1419; this grand Monastery was home to more than 5,000 monks and five monastic colleges. Although much less active now, with only several hundred monks currently in residence, one of the most interesting times to visit the monastery is in the afternoon when monks, after finishing their morning scripture classes, can be seen debating in the courtyard.

After breakfast, we will take a drive to reach the Tsurphu Monastery which resides in a valley floor. This famous monastery of Tibet is the seat of Karmapa branch of the Kagyupa order of Tibetan Buddhism.

If you feel acclimatized you can do the Tsurphu Kora which provides an excellent view of Tsurphu below. We will drive to Yangbachen hot spring before we return back to Lhasa for overnight.

After breakfast, we will start the drive to Ganden Monastery which is 120Km away from Lhasa.

 After Ganden Monastery we will visit Tridum Nunnery, located in a narrow gorge at the confluence of two streams. You can have the famous medicinal hot-springs there.

We will experience the accommodation of the guesthouse of Nunnery Guesthouse (Dormitory). Overnight.

We will start early in the morning today to visit Drigung Til, head monastery of the Drigungpa school of the Kagyupa order, where 280 monks are living and practicing Buddhism.

Up to the hill of Drigung Til, there is one the holiest sky-burial site in the Lhasa region, if you want to see the sky-burial; you need to ask for permission from the family of the deceased and the senior lama who conducts the ceremony.

Drive back to Lhasa for overnight.

A short drive from Lhasa will take us to Tsedang and from there we will start the excursion to Yamdrok Tso. After the excursion, we will drive back to Lhasa.

A short drive from Lhasa takes us to Tsedang where we can visit the Samey Monastery, Yumbulhakhang palace, and Tsongey Tomb.

Overnight stay at Lhasa.

With a warm breakfast, you will be transferred to the Gongkor Airport for your scenic flight to Kathmandu.

After arriving Kathmandu, free on your own.

In the evening, farewell dinner with the team of Himalayan trekkers.

Overnight. 

A representative of Himalayan trekkers will assist and transfer you to the airport 3 hours earlier than your scheduled flight.

Hope you enjoyed this trip with us and please do remember us for other exciting and amazing trips in the Himalayas.

Have a safe journey!