Seven Days Tour: Trekking to Yamdrok Lake

Total Fair From $1120 per person

ITINERARY IN SHORT

  • Day 1: Arrival and pick up, either, to either the Gongkar airport or the Libu train station in Lhasa
  • Day 2: Lhasa sightseeing: Jokhang Temple, Bakhor Market and Potala palace.
  • Day 3: Lhasa sightseeing: Drepung and Sera monastery.
  • Day 4: Lhasa to Yamdrok Lake.
  • Day 5: Trekking from Yamdrok Lake to Samding monastery.
  • Day 6: Samding monastery to Lhasa.
  • Day 7: End of the tour. Your tour guide will arrange your transportation to the Gongkar airport or the Libu train station in Lhasa.

Important notice when you visit the Potala Palace

 

To protect the Potala Palace, a limited number of tourists can go inside. The palace is made of clay and wood, and has become very fragile over the years, thus it is very easy to damage it if too many tourists enter at the same time. Visiting time inside the Palace is restricted to no more than two hours. Due to crowding conditions, tickets are very limited, especially during the summer high season. Sightseeing may also be changed from morning to afternoon, or switched from one day to another according to the situation or the space available.

Please be flexible to this possibility.

  1. Please bring your passport

  2. Tickets should be booked one day in advance

  3. The visit cannot be scheduled ahead of time, the ticketing officer will let your tour guide know when there is availability

  4. You should be at the first security checkpoint one hour ahead of the scheduled time of visit, if you are late then you will not be allowed to re-book a ticket for one week

Services included and excluded in this tour


The following 16 services are included:

  1. Payment for Tibet travel permit and all other necessaries permits to Tibet.

  2. All entrance ticket fees for all tourist sites listed in the itinerary.

  3. Meals as specified in the itinerary.

  4. Local tour Transfers, 5-29 seats comfortable tourist vehicle to accommodate Group Size.

  5. Professional English-speaking Tibetan local tour guide.

  6. Comfortable hotel accommodations

  7. About your hotel accommodation: you will need to share a room with another member but if you prefer to be by yourself, you will need to pay a single room supplement.

  8. Breakfast in hotels

  9. Arrangements including planning, handling, operational and communication charges.

  10. Welcome Group dinner at a local restaurant in Lhasa.

  11. Transportation between Lhasa Gongkar airport or train station and your hotel.

  12. Welcome dinner is only possible in Group tours after your arrival in Tibet.

  13. Tibet Handy Map.

  14. Drinking water at the tour bus during travel.

  15. Shared oxygen tank inside the tour bus.

  16. Trekking staffs, mat, sleeping tent, kitchen tent, yak, yak herder and all meals during the trekking
The following 6 services are excluded:

  1. International flight in and out of China

  2. Domestic flight/train in and out of Lhasa. (We can provide you the domestic flight/train ticket booking service at the BEST discount price, please contact our travel experts for further details.)

  3. Lunches and dinners are not included. The cost is usually about $3-15 per person per meal in TAR (Tibet Autonomous Region).

  4. Personal expenses, like laundry, phone call, snacks, soft drinks (please avoid alcoholic beverages during your Tibetan trip), optional tour activities, etc.

  5. Tips for travel guide and driver

  6. Travel insurance covers trips cancellation cost in emergency evacuations, due to bad weather condition, avalanche, or natural disasters

The total fare for Trekking to Yamdrok Lake

  1. Price: From $1120 per person

  2. Tour Type: Trekking Tour

  3. Trip Level: High-fitness level

  4. Group Size: Max 2-8
  • Day 1: Arrival and pick up, either, to either the Gongkar airport or the Libu train station in Lhasa
  • Day 2: Lhasa sightseeing: Jokhang Temple, Bakhor Market and Potala palace.
  • Day 3: Lhasa sightseeing: Drepung and Sera monastery.
  • Day 4: Lhasa to Yamdrok Lake.
  • Day 5: Trekking from Yamdrok Lake to Samding monastery.
  • Day 6: Samding monastery to Lhasa.
  • Day 7: End of the tour. Your tour guide will arrange your transportation to the Gongkar airport or the Libu train station in Lhasa.

Itinerary in Detail

Day 1

Your tour guide will arrange transportation from either the airport or the train station. The distance from the airport to Lhasa is about 70km, approximately 1:30 hrs. drive. The distance from the train station is only 25km, about 30 minutes’ drive. After that, he will provide you with some necessary instructions about your tour arrangements in Lhasa.
We will accommodate you at the Three Starts hotel or you own choice of hotel.

Day 2

Today is your first day on the high plateau and some of you may have a headache. This is very common for all travelers because of the high altitude, so drink enough water and avoid strenuous activity during this first few days to help you adjust to it.
In the morning our guide will pick you up from your hotel and take you on a visit to the Jokhang Temple which is the center of the holy city of Lhasa. Jokhang temple is one of the most sacred temples in Tibet and has always been bustled with earnest local pilgrims. After that, you will have time to walk around the Bakhor Street, one of the most devotional circuit as well as the most crowded central market in Lhasa. In the old days, it was the most famous local market but nowadays it has evolved into a very touristic gift shopping center. You will be impressed by the crowds of local pilgrims doing prostration in front of the temple, especially during the winter months.
In the afternoon you will visit the Potala Palace, the cardinal landmark of Tibet and the masterpiece of Tibetan architecture. It was built by 33rd King Songtsen Gangpo in the 7th century and, later in the 17th century, rebuilt by the 5th Dalai Lama. Since then, it served as the home to the Dalai Lama and his government. Walking though the long steps is quite challenging, but it is worthwhile to leave your footprints in the spiritual palace on God’s compassion, listed in the world heritage.
We will accommodate you at the Three Starts hotel or your own choice of hotel.

Day 3

This morning we will visit Drepung and Sera Monasteries Deprung monastery is one of the world’s largest monasteries, housing more than 10,000 monks. It was the residence of the Dalai Lama prior to moving to the Potala Palace. Destruction has taken place at different times, but you can still fully enjoy it. You can walk through numbers of narrow and twisted lanes of monks’ apartments, which are more like a typical village.
This amazing day will end with a visit to the Sera Monastery. It was built in the 15th century by the Jamchen choji Sakya Yeshi who was a disciple of Tsongka pa. The monastic colleges in Sera house several hundred monks from different parts of Tibet. The famous Buddhist philosophical debates among the monks takes place every afternoon except on Sundays. Continue acclimatizing to the new altitude and alleviating your jet lag the rest of the day.
We will accommodate you at the Three Starts hotel or another hotel of your choice.

Day 4

This morning we’ll begin our drive from Lhasa to Yamdrok Lake (4600m) and Langkatse, 150km, approximately three hours. We’ll be hiking, trekking, bird watching (especially in spring), and enjoying the clean fresh air in the nature. The sunset scenery at lake is simply, so you’ll have plenty of time to snap some beautiful pictures before dinnertime.
Overnight camping at the Yamdrok Lake.

Day 5

Today we will be trekking around Yamdrok Lake immersing and relaxing ourselves in the primitive nature scenery. We will stop to visit the Samding monastery, an interesting site where the master is a female while her followers are monks. Samding Monastery is the seat of the Dorje Pakmo incarnation line, one of the few female incarnation lines in Tibet. It was established as a hermitage at the edge of Yamdrok Lake by the Second Samding Dorje Pakmo, Kunga Zangmo, with the support of the local rulers of Yardrok who were her patrons. Samding was built on the site of a pre-existing institution that was founded in the twelfth century by Khetsun Zhonnu Drub and has been a bastion of the Bodong school since the fourteenth century.
Breakfast, lunch and dinner will be cooked during the tour.
Overnight camping near Samding monastery.

Day 6

Today we’ll drive from Samding monastery to Lhasa, stopping to visit a local typical Tibetan clothes manufacturer.
Overnight stay in Lhasa.

Day 7

End of the tour. Your tour guide will arrange your transportation to either the Gongkar airport or the Libu train station in Lhasa.

Important notice when you visit the Potala Palace

 

To protect the Potala Palace, a limited number of tourists can go inside. The palace is made of clay and wood, and has become very fragile over the years, thus it is very easy to damage it if too many tourists enter at the same time. Visiting time inside the Palace is restricted to no more than two hours. Due to crowding conditions, tickets are very limited, especially during the summer high season. Sightseeing may also be changed from morning to afternoon, or switched from one day to another according to the situation or the space available.

Please be flexible to this possibility.

  1. Please bring your passport

  2. Tickets should be booked one day in advance

  3. The visit cannot be scheduled ahead of time, the ticketing officer will let your tour guide know when there is availability

  4. You should be at the first security checkpoint one hour ahead of the scheduled time of visit, if you are late then you will not be allowed to re-book a ticket for one week

Services included and excluded in this tour


The following 16 services are included:

  1. Payment for Tibet travel permit and all other necessaries permits to Tibet.

  2. All entrance ticket fees for all tourist sites listed in the itinerary.

  3. Meals as specified in the itinerary.

  4. Local tour Transfers, 5-29 seats comfortable tourist vehicle to accommodate Group Size.

  5. Professional English-speaking Tibetan local tour guide.

  6. Comfortable hotel accommodations

  7. About your hotel accommodation: you will need to share a room with another member but if you prefer to be by yourself, you will need to pay a single room supplement.

  8. Breakfast in hotels

  9. Arrangements including planning, handling, operational and communication charges.

  10. Welcome Group dinner at a local restaurant in Lhasa.

  11. Transportation between Lhasa Gongkar airport or train station and your hotel.

  12. Welcome dinner is only possible in Group tours after your arrival in Tibet.

  13. Tibet Handy Map.

  14. Drinking water at the tour bus during travel.

  15. Shared oxygen tank inside the tour bus.

  16. Trekking staffs, mat, sleeping tent, kitchen tent, yak, yak herder and all meals during the trekking
The following 6 services are excluded:

  1. International flight in and out of China

  2. Domestic flight/train in and out of Lhasa. (We can provide you the domestic flight/train ticket booking service at the BEST discount price, please contact our travel experts for further details.)

  3. Lunches and dinners are not included. The cost is usually about $3-15 per person per meal in TAR (Tibet Autonomous Region).

  4. Personal expenses, like laundry, phone call, snacks, soft drinks (please avoid alcoholic beverages during your Tibetan trip), optional tour activities, etc.

  5. Tips for travel guide and driver

  6. Travel insurance covers trips cancellation cost in emergency evacuations, due to bad weather condition, avalanche, or natural disasters

The total fare for Trekking to Yamdrok Lake

  1. Price: From $1120 per person

  2. Tour Type: Trekking Tour

  3. Trip Level: High-fitness level

  4. Group Size: Max 2-8