Tibet Tour Itinerary is longer while comparing to Lhasa Tour Itinerary. The former is of 7 nights/ 8 days travel except the days spent at Kathmandu whistle the latter is of only 2 nights/ 3 days tour excluding the Kathmandu.
The Tibet tour itinerary covers not only the Lhasa sightseeing but others as well as Xigate, Tsendang, and Samye. Please, go through the following for getting the itinerary details.
Upon your arrival at Tribhuwan International Airport in Kathmandu, you will be greeted by the representative from Rising Adventure at the arrival gate and transferred to the hotel.
Today you will have almost an hour's flight to Lhasa. During your flight, you will be greeted by the beautiful sceneries of the mountains. After reaching Lhasa, you will be picked up by our representative and transferred to the hotel.
After having your breakfast, you will visit the three different places like the Potala Palace, Jokhang Temple and Barkhor Street. The Potala Palace is also known as the Winter Palace of Dalai Lama.
Today you are going to visit the Gelung Monasteries such as Derpung Monastery and Sera Monastery.
Xigate is a beautiful place lies on the northern part of Lhasa with about 275 km far from there. Though the distance is quite long, the driving would be worthy as you are going along the gorgeous valley made by the Yarlung Tsangpo (a river).
In the morning, you have a visit to the most beautiful Tashilumpu monastery, a monastery of Panchen Lama where you can observe the golden views of future Buddha. Then the short and sweet drive takes you at Gyanste. After reaching there, you have a wonderful visit to Kumbuk Stupa as well as Phalkhor monastery.
Today you are going to enjoy your day by having a long drive to Tsendang. The driving would be so romantic as it is going along scenic landscape of Tibetan plateau and also crosses some enchanting passes like Karo La Pass and Kambo La Pass with the altitude of 5010 m and 4970 m respectively.
In morning, you have a short drive to Samye Monastery. It is a first Buddhist Monastery made by the Indian Guru Padmasamvam. Then you have a drive back to Tsendang and visit some oldest monasteries like Yambulakhang and Thendruk.
Today you are going back to Kathmandu by retracing the previous airways. After reaching there, you will be transferred to the hotel.
Today your trip comes to an end and the representative from Rising Adventure will take you to the airport approximately 3 hours before your scheduled flight.