TTT-TT01: 10 Day Trekking Tours Tsurphu Monastery to Yangpachen
Trip Code: TTT-TT01
Trip Stander: Stander Tours
Destinations: Shanghai, Xian, Chengdu, Guanghzhou, Chongqin- Lhasa- Tsurphu Monastery- Yangpachen Hotespring- Namtso Lake- Lhasa
Deapture: Every day depature
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Daily Itinerary:
Day 1st: Train/ Flight to Lhasa (80km)
Guide pick you from Lhasa airport dropping off to hotel. Rest in hotel adapt the high altitude.
Acommodation: Lhasa Fengyaxuan Grand Hotel(4*)
Day 2th: Lhasa (100km)
Morning time visit Potala Palace. Afternoon visit Jokhang Temple, then walk around Barkhor Market.
Accommodation: Lhasa Fengyaxuan Grand Hotel(4*)
* Potala Palace * Jokhang Temple * Barkhor Market
Day 3th: Lhasa (100km)
Morning time visit Drepung Monastery. Afternoon visit Sera Monastery.
Accommodation: Lhasa Fengyaxuan Grand Hotel(4*)
* Drepung Moanstery * Sera Monastery
Day 4th: Lhasa/ Tsurphu Monastery Overnight at Tsurphu monastery.
Drive from Lhasa to Tsurphu Monastery, takes about 2 hours, and the altitude will up to 4480m. Today you will be spent acclimatizing further and visiting this Tsurphu Monastery.
Accommodation: Tsurphu Monastery dorm bed
* Tsruphu Monastery
Day 5th: Tsurphu Monastery/ Leten(Trekking, 4 hours, 11km)
A spectacular first day of trekking up a green valley crisscrossed with mountain streams. Be on the lookout for various species of mountain goats. Several small nomadic communities camp here for the summer herding months, and you may have a stop into a yak-hair tent for a cup of salt butter tea or some fresh yak milk! Crest the ridgetop four hours later, emerging onto a high plateau with a scattering of rock-enclosed huts, and look for a flat area for camping. From day one, the scenery is breathtaking, classic Tibetan beauty.
Accommodation: Camping
Day 6th: Leten/ Bartso(Trekking, 5-6 hours, 15km)
Have your first small pass, the Damchen Nyingtri, bear to the left at the cairns at the crest, and descend into a magical valley of lichen-coated boulders, meandering streams and expansive, powder-blue sky. Three hours later, you will cross the Lasar La and descend into the Yangpachen valley, with its wide open plateaus, spiky grass hummocks and tundra-like parched, cracked patches of earth, and head towards Bartso. The views of Brize (translated as female yak herder) and Tarze (horse keeper) are superb, and you will feel safe in the care of the local mountain god, Nyenchen Tanglha. Camp near Bartso, a drokpa (nomad) village of five or six houses, surrounded by the juniper used for incense all over the Tibetan world.
Accommodation: Camping
Day 7th: Bartso/ Dorje Ling Nunnery(Trekking, 4 hours, 15Km)
Leaving the village of Bartso behind, head towards a wide trail leading across the valley and over another ridge, from where you will be rewarded with views of Nyenchen Tanghlha (7111 m), the holiest mountain in central Tibet. Emerge at Tajung village, and then climb gently up rolling hills where young nomadic boys and girls picnic on the plateaus as they watch their yaks and sheep graze. The vistas are, again, just amazing! Mid-day, you should reach the small Djore Ling Ani Gompa (nunnery), near which you will set up camp. It is possible that these nuns, some of the friendliest in Tibet, will drag you into the gompa s tea-house and pass around a heaping plate of yak meat (use the bowie knife provided to hack a piece off) before getting into the requisite photo session.
Accommodation: Camping
Day 8th: Dorje Ling Nunnery/ Yangpachen Monastery/ Yangpachen Hotsprings/ Namtso Lake(Trekking, 4 hours,14km)
Today walk for three or four hours, following the ox-bow Nyango Chu River snaking its way through the grassy valley, and head for Yangpachen Gompa. This old Kagyupa monastery, with Tibetan mastiffs keeping guard, overlooks part of the Trans-Himalaya range. Landcruiser will wait for at monastery, pick up to have a hot springs at Yangbachen, then drive back to Namtso, enjoy the sunset from Namtso Lake side.
Accommodation: Namtso Tent Guest House
* Namtso Lake
Day 9th: Namtso/ Lhasa( 250km)
Morning time see the sunrise beside Namtso Lake, then driving back to Lhasa.
Accommodation: Lhasa Fengyaxuan Grand Hotel
Day 10th: Train/ Flight out of Lhasa.(80km)
Guide and driver on time dropping off to Lhasa train station or airport end the trip.
Tour Price(EUR/p.p):
Tour Stander 1person 2person 3-4person 5-6person 7-9person
Stander tours
Quotation Include:
1. Tibet Entry Permit
2. Entrace fee: Potala Palce, Jokhang Temple,Drupuang Monastery, Sera Monastery, Tsurphu Monastery, Namtso Lake
3. Hotel: 4N 4* hotel stander room, 2N dorm bed, 3N camping
4. Transportation: Landcrusier transportation
5. Guide: English speaking guide
6. Travel insurance
7. Yak and Yak porters for luggage during trekking.
Quotation Exclude:
1. Airfare or Train ticket in and out of Lhasa.
2. Meals
3. Your own expense like Yanpachen hotspring.
4. Tips for driver and guide
5. Trekking equipment as sleeping bag, tent and mattress
