Shalu to Nartang Trekking Tour

We will welcome you at the Airport or The Lhasa train station. Then you will be escorted to your hotel. It is always advisable the travelers take a good rest for proper acclimatization. Your body needs time and rest to adjust to the low oxygen atmosphere of the high land of Tibet. So please do not any activities which would lead you to dehydrate, and avoid hard work for the first day. Many traveler prefer to take a nap. By the evening we will come to meet you at the hotels and discuss the itinerary of this Shalu to Nartang Trekking tour and other stuff. If time let we will have dinner at Tibetan restaurant.

Visit Jokhang Temple and Sera monastery.

In the morning the breakfast your guide will meet you at the hotel. Then you will first go to the Jokhang Temple, the holiest temple in Tibetan Buddhism. Since your hotel is in the Tibetan quarter of Lhasa city, you will walk to the Jokhang Temple. After visiting the Temple you can some time to explore the Old Lhasa city and Barkhor Street on your own for a couple of hours.

In the afternoon, you will visit the Sera monastery. This is the most well-preserved monastery in Tibet. The monastery you can sit in the courtyard where monks will be debating on Buddhist philosophy. you can stay there sometimes. this is a very good opportunity for many travelers to take a picture of the monks' debate. You can tell your guide to give you some free time to explore the monastery on your own if you would like to live in peace for sometimes.

During your free time in the evening. If you need to do shopping for Shalu to Nartang Trekking tour, Please do so. Let us know if you need our assistance.

Visit Potala Palace, and Drepung Monastery.

In the morning you will visit the grand Potala palace. Your guide will fix and time as per the ticket timing. please do not bring any drinking water or any liquid to drink. you will be asked to either drink it or throw it at the checkpoint. Plus please do not take a picture inside of the palace is restricted. there is a time limitation to two hours to stay inside the palace to fit in all those travelers in limited time and state of vulnerability of century-old palace against thousands of visitors alike. you guide might hurry you. But if you would like to see something or spend a few moments in a specific place please let me know her.

In the afternoon we will visit the Drepung Monastery. It is one of the three biggest monasteries in Lhasa and central Tibet. In the early 20th Century, it is the world's biggest monastic complex. The circuit around the monastery takes about an hour of spectacular views.

In the evening, we will meet the final Preparation for the Shalu to Nartang Trekking tour. Our team will pack all the gears and Cooking items from our arrangement in the car.

Distance: 260km, Sleeping Elevation:4028m,

The Drive from Lhasa to Gyantse is 300km, via visit to Yamdrok Lake, located 100km from Lhasa. The meaning of word Yamdrok is “The jade lake in the upper pasture land” in Tibetan. Further 72 km, the lake is surrounded by many snow capped mountains. The lake one of the three holy lakes in Tibet along the Namtso Lake in northern Tibet and Manasarovar lake in far west Tibet. After the lake we will stop by the Karola Glacier. There is another great monastery near the lake called Samding Monastery. We can arrange your visit to it, if you would like to. In Gyantse town, you will visit the Palchoe Monastery and Kumbum Stupa. You can also visit the Gyantse Dzong (fort). You will stay over night in Gyantse. This will be you last night in hotel before the Shalu to Nartang Trekking tour.

Duration: 5-6hrs, Distance: 19km, Ascent: 420m Ascent, Descent: 240m Descent.

In the morning we will first drive from Gyantse to Shalu Monastery. visit Shalu Monastery, It is a small Monastery at 22km south of Shigatse. The monastery was founded in 1040 by Jetsun Sharab Jungnay. The Monastery is renowned for psychic training and the center for scholarly learning. Its mural painting is considered as the most ancient and beautiful in Tibet.  Shalu was the first of the major monasteries to be built by noble families of the Tsang Dynasty during Tibet’s revival of Buddhism and was an important center for the Sakya tradition.

Shalu was the first of the major monasteries to be built by noble families of the Tsang Dynasty during Tibet's great revival of Buddhism and was an important center of the Sakya tradition. In the morning we will make final preparation for trekking. After lunch, we will trek from Shalu Monastery to Upper Lungsang.

Duration: 4hrs, Distance: 8km

On today’s trail, we will cross, the high pass is Char-la pass [4600 m], after we ascend slowly from Upper Langsang to Char-La pass, we will descent down to Ngor Monastery which takes about 50 mins. The Ngor is the Sakya School's second most important center. It is the main temple of the large Ngor school of Tibetan Tantric Buddhism, which represents eighty-five percent of the Sakyapa School in Tibet. Camp near Ngor Monastery

Duration: 5hrs, Distance: 18km, 5 hrs, Descent: 300m descent

Today is the last hiking day of Shalu to Nartang Trekking Tour,  you will hike from the Ngor to Nartang by passing several villages, saddles, and one electric utility. Visit Nartang Monastery.

From Ngor Monastery there is a motorable road that runs down the valley. 15 mins after the monastery are the small village called Pero. After one and a half hours drive, we will see the valley and road bending towards the north while the old road trade route to Sakya continues over a saddle towards the west. After another hour, we will reach the village of Dzong Lugari. From Dzong Lugari, we will continue 2 hours trek to reach our destination of Nartang. where our Tibetan driver and the vehicle will wait for us, then we will be transferred Lhatse, o/n in Lhatse Shanghai Hotel, rest.

Duration: 4hrs, Distance: 200km, Elevation: 5010m

Today we will drive straight to Everest Basecamp by crossing several passes along the way, you will have the first views of mighty Himalayans from the pass of Gyatso la(5400m) after Lhatse and a distant view of Mt. Everest from its viewing point soon after the climb down Gyatso la, shortly after the border checkpoint at Shelkar, turn off the Friendship Highway and drive toward the south in the valley, cross over the Gawu la pass[5250m] through zigzags road, from the pass you will amaze the spectacular Himalayan Ranges and its mighty peaks beyond 8000m, Mt.Makalu (8463m), Mt.Lotse (8516m), Mt.Everest (8844m), Mt.Cho Oyu (8201m) and Mt.Shishapama (8020m) from Left to right, climbing down through numbers of switchback bends lead to the dry valley of Tashi Zom and then finally the day’s destination – Everest Base Camp located in the Rongbuk valley. Rongbuk Monastery is the highest monastery in the world and it consist of both monks and nuns.

Duration: 7hrs, Distance: 350km, Elevation: 3846m.

As we wake up the next morning. An amazing view of luminous peaks, highlighted by the sun and it is bittersweet to say farewell to this marvelous landscape that we have gotten to know well. Then we will drive all the way back to Shigatse and relax in Shigatse hotel, take a hot shower in the hotel and have a good rest. Overnight in Shigatse.

Distance: 280km, Duration: 4/5 Hours

Today, we will visit the Tashi Lhunpo monastery in the morning. Tashi Lhunpo monastery was built by the 1st Dalai Lama- Gendun Drupa in year 1447. The Monastery later became the principal seat of Panchen Lama lineage. In the Monastery you will see the tomb stupa of pass 7 Incarnation of Panchen Lama and the Giant stupa of Maitreya (The Future Buddha). It is a real pleasent to pass through the busy cobbled lanes twisting around the aged building that is monks living quarter. Then we will drive back to the Lhasa in the afternoon. Overnight in Lhasa.