9 Days Lhasa Surrounding Tour 

Lhasa Surrounding Tour: We can arrange many different day trips around Lhasa city like the former Buddhist master meditation cave. It’s good for the short hike around the former Indian and Tibetan masters meditation cave and also you can explore the holy lakes and Experience Tibetan nomads life.

 Tour itineary

Day 01: Arrive at Lhasa

Day 02: Lhasa-Jokhang temple -Barkhore square -Ramoche Temple

Day 03:lhasa-Potala Palace-Norbulingka Summer Palace

Day04: Lhasa-Drepung monastery-Sera Monastery

Day 05:Lhasa-Gaden monastery-Tridrum Nunnery(Hotspring)

Day 06: Tridrum nunnery-Drigung Til monastery -Reting monastery

Day 07: Reting monastery-Namsto lake

Day 08: Damxung -Tsurphu monastery -Lhasa

Day 09: Depart Lhasa

• 9 Day

  Lhasa surrounding Tour

• Detail Tour package click here

  Day 01: Arrive at Lhasa

  Arrive at the train station (20km) or airport(60km) in Lhasa.  Our guide and driver will pick you up and transfer you to the hotel for acclimatization; you can have your free time hanging out in this holy city to get the first impression of Tibet.
  Day 02: Lhasa-Jokhang temple -Barkhore square -Ramoche Temple

  

  Morning visit the Jokhang temple is the most sacred temple in Tibet . In Tibetan language it refers to “Buddha’s house” because the main statue is said to be made by Buddha Sakyamuni himself time. The Jokhang temple is the convergence of Tibet’s spiritual and secular life. Here you can meet all kinds of tribes from the Tibetan plateau. The surrounding market is called “Bakhore”. One of the most important religious paths.

  Afternoon visit the Ramoche temple: Ramoche temple is considered to be the sister temple to the Jokhang  which was completed about the same time. Tradition says that it was built originally to house the much revered Jowo Rinpoche statue, carried to Lhasa via Lhagang in a wooden cart, brought to Tibet when Princess Wencheng came to Lhasa.

  Overnight in Hotel(Lhasa)

  Day 03:Lhasa-Potala Palace -Norbuling summer palace

  

  Morning visit the Potala palace towers above the city of Lhasa as the national landmark that allures the international visitors. The massive 13-storeyed building used to be the former abode for the Dalai lamas. It looks incredibly magnificent from a distance and could be viewed from various places around town. As the nation’s supreme relic, the palace dates back to the seventh century A.D.

  Afternoon visit the Norbulingka summer palace the former summer palace of Dalai Lamas  built in during the 18th century by seven Dalai lama.  Explore the beautiful gardens and experience one of the most holy sites in Tibetan Buddhism while soaking up the rich history

  Overnight in Hotel(Lhasa)

  Day 04:Lhasa-Drepung monastery-Sera Monastery

  

  Drepung monastery was founded in 1416 by a charismatic monk and disciple of Tsongkhapa called Jamyang Choji.  Within just a year of the completion the monastery had attracted a population of some 2000 monks.  In 1530 the second Dalai lama established the Gaden Palace, the palace that was home to the Dalai lamas until the fifth built the Potala palace.  It was from here that the early Dalai lamas exercised their political as well as religious control over central Tibet, and the second, third and fourth Dalai lamas are entombed here.

  Afternoon visit the Sera monastery: All the Gelugpa monasteries history is strongly connected to Master Lama Tsongkhapa (1357–1419), the founder of the Gelugpa order, the much venerated and highly learned guru in Buddhist scriptures. The Sera Monastery at the foot of Sera Uste  Hill is located 2 kilometres northern of Lhasa. It is one of the “great three” Gelukpa university monasteries of Tibet

  Overnight in Hotel(Lhasa)

  Day 05:Lhasa-Gaden monastery-Tridrum Nunnery(Hotspring)

  

  After breakfast, Drive to visit Ganden Monastery which is about 60Km away from Lhasa. Then drive to Tidrum Nunnery, it has a great location in a narrow gorge at the confluence of two streams. You can have the famous medicinal hot-springs there.

  ( Overnight in Tridrum nunnery guest house)

  Day 06: Tridrum nunnery-Drigung Til monastery -Reting monastery

  

  Early drive to Drigung Til. It is one the holiest sky-burial site in Lhasa region, if you want to see the sky-burial, you need to ask for the permission from the the family of the deceased and the senior lama who conducts the ceremony. After that, we continue our drive through the Changthang plains to Reting Monastery. Reting Monastery is an important Gelukpa monastery in Central Tibet, situated in a sprawling juniper clad hill.

  (Overnight in Reting monastery Guest house)

  Day 07: Reting monastery-Namsto lake

  

  Today we will drive to Namtso Lake, the 2nd largest salt-water lake in Tibet. The Nyenchen Thangla mountain ranges tower over the lake. During the summer months Namtso is dotted with nomad herders and their yaks and tents. Walk around the lake and you can find some Mani Ringmo by the lake drive back to Damxung town

  .(Overnight in Hotel(Damxung)
  

  Day 08: Damxung -Tsurphu monastery -Lhasa

  

  Morning  drive back to Lhasa. On the way, visit Tsurphu Monatery which is the seat of the Karmapa branch of the Kagyupa order of Tibetan Buddhism. End of the trip in Lhasa.

  Overnight in Hotel( Lhasa)

  Day 09: Depart Lhasa

  Our guide and driver will transfer you to the Lhasa airport or train station and depart Lhasa and end the Tibet Tour

• Tour includes:

  • All the necessaries Tibet Travel Permit
  • All the necessaries entrance fees
  • Your accommodation with included breakfast
  • Tibetan English Speaking guide
  • Car and driver for the whole trip
  • Agency service fee
  • guide and driver accommodation and meal
  • permit shipping fee

• Tour Excludes:

  • Your lunch and dinner
  • your flight or train ticket both way
  • personal expenses
  • guide and driver tips

  Feel free to ask if you have any further questions.