Tibet Bird Watching Tour

We will welcome you at the Airport or The Lhasa train station. Then you will be escort to your hotel. It is always advice the travelers to take a good rest for proper acclimatization. please do not any activities which would lead you to dehydrate, like taking bath. And avoid hard work for the first day. Many traveler prefer to take a nap. by the evening i will come to meet you at the hotels and discuss about the itinerary and other stuff. If time let we will have a dinner at Tibetan restaurant.

Visit to Jokhang Temple and Sera monastery

In the morning after having your 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 you 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 by your own for couple of hours.

The guide will fix you a time and place to visit. In the afternoon, you will visit the Sera monastery. This is a 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 for some times. this is a very good opportunity for many travelers to take a picture of monks debate. You can tell your guide to give you some free times to explore the monastery by your own, if you would like to live in peace for some times

Visit to Potala palace,  pond behind potala and Lhasa wet land (There are near by)

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 ask to either drink it or throw it at the check point. Plus please do not take a picture inside of the palace is restrict. there is a time limited of two hours to stay in side the palace to fit in all those travelers in limited time and state of vulnerability of century old palace against thousands of visitor alike. you guide might hurry you. But if you would like to see some thing or spend a few moment in specific place please let know her.

After the visit is over you will be descending from back side of the palace. there is a small garden with a pond in which we do find lots of Tibetan Eared Pheasants. you might can buy some food for them and as well as taking the picture. After some time at the potala garden, we can head to Lhasa wet land for bird watching in the wetland of Lhasa.

We will start early in the morning and we will drive to Lhunzhup county, our driver a local resident of Lhunzhub will take us to spot where we will find lots of Black naked crane and we will also try to hand walk near them if possible.

we will start early for a day tour to the Shungsep nunnery in Tolung county. we will have to climb for some time to have a better picture of birds. we can also see how wild birds and the nuns lives in peace. the short thirty minute trekking to the Another temple would give  you a breath taking view of mount Nyenchen Kangsar.

It is advise to start the journey little earlier in the morning. So in most of the cases we leave Lhasa at 7 in the morning after having breakfast at your hotel. by 11:00 Am you will reach the Kampa-la pass (4700 m) . The car will stop here for some time of the beautiful view to Yamdrok Lake below the pass and the mighty mount Mount Nojin Kangtsang (7191 meters). After some times at the pass for the picture, we will then drive down to the Lake. It is about a 15 minutes drive and we will descend about 700 meters to the shore. We will stop at the shore and you will have some times to enjoy the beautiful lake from its shore.

After the Lake we will continue to drive to the Nangartse town for lunch. From Yamdrok lake to Nangartse is 50 kms and we will drive along the shore until we divert to the Town. If you are traveling during the winter you can see lots of wild birds on this road. It is advise to bring a binocular if you are bird lover. Once when we reach the town we will stop here for the lunch and after the lunch you can explore this little Tibetan town for some times.

Between the Yamdrok stop and the Gyantse we will find a lots of birds and we can stop for bird watching at some points.

You will then continue to Gyantse town. You will reach at the Gyantse town about the 3:00 pm. We will then check in to our hotel for the night and then we will continue to visit the Gyantse monastery. Visiting the monastery would take about one and half hours. If you still have some energy, we can visit the Gyantse fort.

You will start you journey at about 9:00 am. Once when you drive out of the Gyantse town, we will stopped at Photograpghy spot outside the town. From there you can see entire town of Gyantse including its monastery, stupa and the fort. It is one of my favorite place in Tibet to take picture.
From Gyantse we will first go to Shalu monastery. Many travel and tour operator in Tibet skips in their itinerary. But to me it is a must place to visit. The painting in side the monastery is very different. Those are the original Newari style paintings.

After Shalu Monastery we will continue to Shigatse. On arrival to Shigatse we will first visit the Tashi Lhunpo monastery. Built by the first Dalai lama and official residence of Penchen lama. Then we will drive to the hotel and rest of the day is free for you and the group members. But i will have to go to apply for the permit for Everest base camp.

Distance: 280Km, Elevation: 3656m

We will travel back to Lhasa, the distance for the return journey is 280 kilometres, and It will take only 6 Hours travelling. Therefore, we will have enough time to do the last-minute souvenir shopping or walk the pilgrimage circuit around Jokhang Temple one more time.