Tibet: A Buddhist Legacy
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Overview
Highlights
- Explore Yarlung Tsangpo Valley
- Explore Chengdu
- Visit Kumbum and monastery as well as Peljor Chode Monastery
- Explore the Jokhang
- See the Drepung and Norbulinka
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- Accommodations as listed, including all service charges and taxes
- All ground transfers
- All excursions with expert English speaking guides
- Entrance fees to museums, temples, etc.
- All meals as indicated with Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
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Accommodation: Tibet Hotel
Arriving in Chengdu, you will clear Chinese customs and immigration. Exiting with your baggage, you will be met by our China operator, holding your names on a sign. He will transfer you to your hotel. At the same time, he will get your signatures on the relevant documents, process your Tibet permit, and return it to you at the hotel.
Meals: Breakfast
Accommodation: Tibet Hotel
This morning you can do some touring in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province, and its administrative, cultural and educational center. The city is also a major industrial base and the economic, social and p...
Meals Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Tsetang Hotel
This morning, you will be picked up at your hotel and transferred to the airport, this time for your morning flight to Tibet. Exact flight times are often a function of weather, and are some...
Meals Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Tsetang Hotel
You will spend the next day exploring the beautiful Yarlung Tsangpo Valley, the cradle of Tibetan civilization. When you are ready in the morning, you will head to Samye. Samye is Tibet's fir...
Meals Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Gyantse Hotel
Leaving Tsetang, you will head west along the Tsangpo River. Your drive is quite spectacular. Your first stop will be Mindroling Monastery, founded by Terdak Lingba in 1676. Despite the relat...
Meals Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Gyantse Hotel
Gyantse, once Tibet’s third most important city, lies at the head of the Nyangchu Valley astride the main trade routes from India, Bhutan, and Nepal to Lhasa. Made wealthy by selling sheep an...
Meals Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Tashi Choede Hotel
Rising early, you will continue driving west to Shigatse. In the early days of Communism, some of the monks of Shigatse were in collusion with the security bureau and reported anyone acc...
Meals Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Keychu Hotel Or Shangrila
This morning, before you leave, you can take a few minutes and explore the small Tibetanbazaar. When you are ready, you can complete your circle and drive back to Lhasa.
Here, you can wash and unpack. When you are ready, you can take a walk in the Barkhor, the shopping area surrounding the Jokhang.
Meals Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Keychu Hotel Or Shangrila
Rising early, you will grab a quick breakfast. Around 7:30am you head back to the Barkhor and the Jokhang, spiritual center of Tibet and destination of millions of Tibetan Pilgrim...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Keychu Hotel Or Shangrila
This morning, for your last full day in Tibet, you will begin with a visit to the Norbulinka, once named Jewel Park and now People's Park. The Norbulinka was the former summer pa...
Meals: Breakfast
Today, you will head back to the airport and catch a flight to Beijing or Chengdu or other city, and connect with your onward flight.
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What's excluded
- International airfare
- Internal Airfare to and from Lhasa (broken out separately)
- Comprehensive insurance coverage, including medical, evacuation, baggage loss/delay, cancellation ins., etc.
- Visa fees
- Meals where not indicated with a B,L,D
- Tips/gratuity (porters, drivers, local guides, etc)
- International airport taxes
- Other items of a personal nature including laundry, alcoholic beverages, etc.
- Additional expenses resulting from the delay or extension of the trip due to causes beyond our reasonable control
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