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Sichuan -Tibet Highway Tour
offered by supplier M17974 (view this supplier profile)
Key Information:
Tour Duration: 9
- 10
day(s)
Group Size: 2
- 30
people
Destination(s):
China
Tibet
Specialty Categories:
Glacier Tours
Sightseeing
Season: May - October
Airfare Included: No
Tour Customizable: No
Minimum Per Person Price: 1900 US Dollar (USD)
Maximum Per Person Price: 2000 US Dollar (USD)
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Tour Itinerary:
Day 1: Chengdu-368km-Kangding (2500m)
152km ride on Chengdu Basin to Ya’an and over Mt Er’lang mounting Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. In a river valley Dreams Travel’s clients find Kangding, a twon famous for its love songs. Visit Dorje Drak Monastery (a branch of the Dorje Drak Monastery in Lhasa), Lhamo Tsering Monastery & Ngachu Gompa (a branch of the Drepung Loseling Monastery). Overnight at Hotel.
Day 2: Kangding-220km-Litang (4000m)
As its names goes, Litang is flat and there is Annual Horse Race, which enables visitors to view Khamba roundly. Ganden Thubchen Choekhorling Monastery (Lithang Gompa, Litangsi) - The monastery is just on the northern edge of town and belongs to the Gelukpa sect of Tibetan Buddhists. As usual, you are not allowed to take photographs of holy relics inside. The friendly monks will guide you through the main buildings, including some breathtaking views from the temple roofs.
The monastery was founded in 1580 by the third Dalai Lama Sonam Gyatso on the site of an older Bön-monastery. There are three main temples in the compound, of which one is currently under construction. The oldest seems to be the one on top of the hill, still featuring the wooden construction of the upper rim of the buildings.
Inside, you can view several chambers and a bedroom in which the 7th Dalai Lama is said to have resided. Many more famous and influential personal figures were born here, including the 7th Dalai Lama, 10th Dalai Lama, the most influential Zebutsundaba Lama of Mogonia, the 7th Gyamuyang Lama, the 7th, 8th and 9th Pabalha living Buddha of Chamdo monastery and the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Xianggen living buddha.Overnight at Hotel.
Day 3: Litang-165km-Batang (2900m)
Batang means sheep-baaing lakeside and it is one of the most beautiful places in the world.The scenery here is simply beyond praise. Dreams Travel’s clients often are greatly astonished: Why are people here so beautiful? Overnight at Hotel.
Day 4: Batang-270km-Zogang (3700m)
Half-bred yak’s back is used to describe the place. Mt Meri faces river valleys, boundless grassland, hot springs, holy lakes and beautiful monasteries. Overnight at Guest house.
Day 5: Zogang-290km-Rawu(3850m)
Rawu lake has an elevation of 3,807 meters and 26 km in circumference, with an average width of 1 to 5 kilometers. It is Eastern Tibet’s largest lake. Ancient glaciers surrounds the area and in the summer, when the snow melts, the snow finds its way into the lake. Rawu Lake is abundant in water resources, and sometimes known as the “West immortals”. Overnight at Guest house.
Day 6: Rawu-218km-Bomi (2700m)-216km-Bayi (3000m)
Sightseeing of Rawu Lake: Water birds in large number are above inverted reflection of forest, glaciers and snow peaks in bluish green lake water, limpid and flat as a mirror. The road comes to its most beautiful section with standing trees, gliding rills, hovering eagles on the background of snow-capped mountain, quiet lake, village or farming land. Sightseeing of the spectacularly where Niyang River pours into Yarlungzangbo and overlooking Mt Benri, the holy mountan of Tibetan Local Religion, Mt Namjaqbarwa (7756m). Overnight at guesthouse.
Day 7: Bayi-450km-Lhasa.
DaY 8: Lhasa Visit. Potala, Jokhang and Norbulinkha.
Day 9: Lhasa-Chengdu by air.
Notes:
Airfare is not included in the tour price.
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