Devout Buddhist Appreciation

This memorable one-week Tibet small group tour will start once you arrive at the train station or Lhasa Gonggar Airport. Our guide will be waiting for you at the exit and give you a warm welcome. Then, you will be sent to the hotel to have a good rest for the adaption to the high altitude.

Meals: No meals
Accommodation: YAK Hotel (or other similar Hotel)

After breakfast, our guide and driver will pick you up at the hotel and transfer you to the Potala Palace, which is Tibet's largest and best-preserved palace complex with a history of around 1,400 years. In the afternoon, a visit to the Jokhang Temple will be arranged to let you appreciate the statue of Sakyamuni when he was eight and the glamorous architectural style. Afterwards, you will be led to stroll around the busy Barkor Street, where you can buy traditional and religious crafts as souvenirs.

A welcome dinner will be arranged at a famous restaurant at night, and you will feast your stomach with authentic Tibetan food.

Meals: Breakfast, Dinner
Accommodation: YAK Hotel (or other similar Hotel)

Today, we will drive out of the downtown area to the outskirts of Lhasa and visit the Drepung Monastery and Sera Monastery. Drepung in Tibetan means a pile of rice. The monastery was so named because the large-scale white building complex constructed on the hillside looks like a giant pile of rice. Although not as grand as Drepung Monastery, Sera Monastery has the most famous debate of Buddhist scriptures. This ritual is generally held from 15:30 to 17:00 during Monday - Saturday.

Meals: Breakfast
Accommodation: YAK Hotel (or other similar Hotel)

After breakfast, we will head westwards from Lhasa for the next destination of this Tibet small group tour, Shigatse. The refreshing landscape of Yamdrok Yumtso Lake and Karola Glacier along the way will reveal the unique highland scenery. En route, we will make a stop at Kumbum Monastery in Gyangtse, which was originally built in 1418. Afterwards, continue to drive for about 1.5 hours, we will arrive in Shigatse. Our guide will help you check in at a local hotel for one night stay.

Meals: Breakfast
Accommodation: Manasarovar Hotel (or other similar Hotel)

Today, our guide will accompany you to the Tashilhunpo Monastery, which was founded by the First Dalai Lama in 1447. Besides Tibetan Buddhist buildings, visitors can admire the world's largest gilded bronze Buddha statue there with a height of 26.7 meters (87.6 feet).

The Shigatse small group tour will conclude at this point, and we will then drive back to the hotel in Lhasa.

Meals: Breakfast
Accommodation: YAK Hotel (or other similar Hotel)

It is the last day of this 6-day Lhasa tour package. Our guide and driver will escort you to the airport and help you with the boarding procedures. Wish you a nice trip!

Meals: Breakfast