Lhasa Mt Everest & Mt Kailash Kathmandu Group Tour

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This 12 days Lhasa Mt.Everest & Mt Kailash Kora Pilgrimage group tour is our new small group in 2019. It's good news for travelers who'd like to do 3 days trekking around Mt.Kailash and overland to Kathmandu. This tour starts from Lhasa, you can visit the best holy part of Lhasa city like the world heritage Potala Palace, sacred Jokhang temple etc. Then, ...
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Overview

Trip type
Group Tour
Lodging level
Premium - 4 star
Physical level
Easy
Trip pace
Full schedule

Highlights

    • Visit the most famous Potala Palace
    • Visit the main monastery in Gyantse - Pelkor Chode Monastery
    • Visit Zutulpuk Monastery
    • Enjoy the spectacular vista of Mt. Naimonanyi
    • Enjoy the sunrise of Everest Peak

What's this trip about?

    This 12 days Lhasa Mt.Everest & Mt Kailash Kora Pilgrimage group tour is our new small group in 2019. It's good news for travelers who'd like to do 3 days trekking around Mt.Kailash and overland to Kathmandu. This tour starts from Lhasa, you can visit the best holy part of Lhasa city like the world heritage Potala Palace, sacred Jokhang temple etc. Then, you will drive to the west of Tibet, Nagri via Shigatse and Saga. Along the way, you will visit the deep turquoise Yamdroktso Lake, the world's highest peak-Mount Everest, and famous monasteries. When you arrive in Darchen, you will start 3 days Mt Kailash Kora from here. The altitude would be 4700m. Your 3 days trekking would be at this altitude, more or less 100 m around. After that, you will drive to the Gyirong border. From here, you can transfer to Kathmandu city and visit famous resorts in Nepal and enjoy wildlife in Chitwan, a well-known jungle in Nepal.

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Details

Itinerary focusOff the Beaten Path
Group sizeIntimate group - 12 max
Age rangeNo age restrictions
Flights and transportAll internal ground transport included
Start CityLhasa
End CityGyirong

Travel Themes

  • Climbing & Mountaineering
  • Local Immersion & Homestays
  • Trekking & Expeditions
  • Religious
  • Holy Land

Destinations

  • Asia
  • China
  • Nepal

Attractions

  • Chitwan National Park
  • Everest Base Camp
  • Kathmandu
  • Lhasa
  • Mount Everest
  • Tibet

Activities

  • Culture
  • Historic sightseeing
  • Homestays & Cultural Immersion
  • Nature
  • Wildlife viewing

Trip includes

    • Comfortable Hotel Accommodations as listed in itinerary
    • Meals as listed in the itinerary
    • Travel-licensed vehicle according to group size & season as itinerary needed including gas and parking fee
    • Free Lhasa Railway Station transfer at all time on the first & last day
    • Free pick-up from airport to hotel at 9:30 am,13:00 pm and 16:00 pm on the first day
    • Shuttle Bus fee go to Kailash: USD10/person
    • Experienced local English-speaking tour guide
    • All entrance fee mentioned in itinerary
    • All necessary permits to Tibet
    • Travel Agency Liability insurance
    • Government Tax
    • Express delivery fee of Permit (eg. SF. Express)
    • Food & lodgings for guide & driver
    • Oxygen tank for emergency use
    • Two bottles of mineral water per person per day

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Itinerary

Travel Map

Day 1: Arrival In Lhasa (3680m)

Accommodation: Stay overnight in Lhasa, 3star/4star

Our staff will greet you at Lhasa Airport/Railway to transfer you to the hotel. From Lhasa Airport to downtown Lhasa, usually, it takes about one hour. It’s about 20 minutes driving from Lhasa Railway Station ...

Day 2: Lhasa Sightseeing

Meals: Breakfast and Dinner

Accommodation: Stay overnight in Lhasa, 3star/4star

Attraction: Drepung Monastery and Sera Monastery

After breakfast in the hotel, tour guide and driver will meet you in the lobby of the hotel and pick you up to Drepung...

Day 3: Lhasa Sightseeing

Meals: Breakfast

Accommodation: Stay overnight in Lhasa, 3star/4star

Attraction: Potala Palace, Jokhang Temple and Barkhor Street

Today, you will visit the most famous Potala Palace according to the time of ticket and in peak season, there is a vi...

Day 4: Lhasa- Gyantse(4040m)- Shigatse(3840m), 360km,

Meals: Breakfast

Accommodation: Stay overnight in Shigatse, 3star/4star

Attraction: Yamdroktso Lake, Karola Glacier and Pelkor Chöde Monastery

We will pass by Kampala pass (4794m) on the way from Lhasa to Shigatse and visit Yamdrok Lake. Covering ...

Day 5: Shigatse -Tingri -Rongpuk –EBC(5100m), 350km

Meals: Breakfast

Accommodation: Stay overnight in Rongpuk guesthouse or Nomad Tent, (Dorm Bed)

Attraction: Rongbuk Monastery

In the morning, you will leave Shigatse to Lhatse, a small town located 150 km from Shigatse, and you may have lunch in lo...

Day 6: EBC-Saga (4600m), 450km

Accommodation: Stay overnight in Saga, Guesthouse/3star

Attraction: Everest Base Camp and Peikutso Lake

You can get up early and enjoy the sunrise of Everest Peak at lodging area if the weather is good. And then, we can drive you to the Everest Base Camp...

Day 7: Saga – Darchen (4560m), 490km

Accommodation: Stay overnight in Guesthouse/4 star

Today, you will spend a lot of time on the way, but it’s worthy to see the landscape along the way.You’ll have stunning views of the great Himalayans to the south and Trans-Himalayan to the north as we drive ac...

Day 8: Darchen-Dirakpuk (4700m), (Driving 8km, Trek 18km)

Meals: Breakfast

Accommodation: Stay overnight in Guesthouse, Dorm Bed

Attraction: Mt. Kailash

In the morning, you will take an eco-bus (included in the cost) to Sarshung valley and start the trekking from there. If you have hired porters and yaks...

Day 9: Trek From Dirakpuk-Zuktulpuk (4790m), 24km

Accommodation: Stay overnight in Guesthouse, Dorm Bed

Attraction: Mt. Kailash

Today is the most challenging day of the trekking, you’ll climb over the highest pass of the Kora, the Dromala pass(5630m). After a short rest at the top, we will climb down in...

Day 10: Trek From Zuktulpuk- Darchen, 14km, . 2hrs; Drive From Darchen -Manasarovar (4560m)-Payang, 240km

Accommodation: Stay overnight in Payang, Guesthouse

Attraction: Lake Manasarovar

It's an easy day of the trek. You'll trek 14 km to complete the Kora. According to Buddhism theory, doing a kora around a holy mountain for one circle can get rid of the sin...

Day 11: Payang-Saga, 290km

Accommodation: Stay overnight in Saga, Guesthouse/3star

Today we will drive to Saga from Payang. The reason why we don’t stay overnight near Manasarovar is the poor accommodation condition. You can enjoy the beautiful scenery along the way.

Day 12: Saga- Gyirong, 180km

Beautiful landscape along Gyirong Valley and send off to Gyirong Border

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Dates & Availability

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Price per day$148
Last Updated: 5/14/2019

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May 2019

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Here I’d like to show my thanks to Great Tibet Tour company. They helped me and arranged a wonderful tour in Tibet. This is a excellent tour agency in Lhasa who prov...

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May 2019

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May 2019

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Aug 2020

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We have done the 8 days Lhasa - Shigatze - Mt Everest tour

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Aug 2020

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I did an adjusted 12 day tour of Tibet, from Lhasa to Everest

I did an adjusted 12 day tour of Tibet, from Lhasa to Everest, and then through to Mt Kailash for the kora trek, and then to the Nepali border to head to Kathmandu. ...

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Great Tibet Tour has a team of Tibet travel experts with the majority being local born Tibetans who handpick the best things to do in destinations around Tibet. Ever since 2005, we've designed and operated tours in Tibet from standard Lhasa City Tours to the adventurous Tibet Trekking Tours. To ensure the tours you book on Great Tibet Tour deliver the type of experience we know you want to have – a once in a lifetime experience – we've sought out the most reputable and reliable local guides, hotels, restaurants, and transportation companies throughout Tibet. This comprehensive insider access, possessed only by locals, we live here, we know Tibet.

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Logistics

What's excluded

    • Yaks & herders during 3-Day Mt Kailash Kora
    • Shuttle Bus fee back from Kailash: USD10/person
    • Shuttle Bus fee at Lake Manasarovar: USD 43/person
    • International flight to and out of China
    • Domestic flight/train to and out of Lhasa (We’d like to book the domestic flight/train ticket at the BEST price. Please contact us for details.)
    • Transfer from Gyirong to Kathmandu
    • Lunch & Dinner are not included but we will recommend some good ones for you according to your requirements. Usually, it takes 3-10 USD per person for each meal.
    • While Gratuities for guide and driver is NOT mandatory, it is expected. Based on their service, you can tip them on the last day of the tour. Each of you is suggested to tip them 5-10 USD/day in total
    • All the commission and tax charged by PayPal, Bank, and government when making payment. (e.g. PayPal --- 4.2%. Wire transfer --- 7.36%)
    • Personal expenses
    • Anything not mentioned in the Inclusions.
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Meals Included

5 Breakfast and 1 Dinner

Age Requirements
No age restrictions
Additional Information
Trip ID
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