Tsurphu to Yangpachen 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 advice the travellers to take a good rest for proper acclimatization. please do not any activities which would lead you to dehydrate, like taking a bath. 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 and other stuff. If time let we will have dinner at Tibetan restaurant.

Visit 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 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 on your own for a couple of hours.

The guide will fix you a time and place to visit. In the afternoon, you will see 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 perfect opportunity for many travellers to take a picture of the monks’ debate. You can tell your guide to give you some free times to explore the monastery on your own if you would like to live in peace for sometimes.

Visit Potala Palace, and Drepung 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 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 on your own for a couple of hours.

The guide will fix you a time and place to visit. In the afternoon, you will see 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 perfect opportunity for many travellers to take a picture of the monks’ debate. You can tell your guide to give you some free times to explore the monastery on your own if you would like to live in peace for sometimes.

Distance: 65km, Sleeping Elevation: 4480m, Duration: 4 hours

We will drive to the Tsurphu Monastery along the Qinghai-Tibet Highway from Tolung Dechen on the east side of the Tolung Chu River for 26 km. We will then cross the river. From there, the trail off the main road will continue zigzag through the village and barley farmland, taking about 2 hours to get to the monastery. The monastery lies deep in the valley at 4480 meters above sea level.

The Tsurphu monastery is the traditional seat of the Karmapa, head of the Karma Kagyu sect of Tibetan Buddhism. Built in 1187 by Dusum Khyenpa, it is the seat of the Karmapa. In the afternoon, you have time to explore the twisted lanes through the aged buildings within the monastery complex. Overnight at the Tsurphu monastic guesthouse or camping.

Distance: 11kms, Sleeping Elevation: 5090m, Duration: 4 hours, Ascent: 500m

The trek starts heading to the west by following the Kora trail surrounded by trees and the day trek takes 4-5 hrs covering a distance of 12km, walking into the green valley by crossing over the mountain streams and watercourses within the valley, the rocky hills along the trekking route is the home for herds of mountain goats, but you may hard to see them easily as they are disguised in the gray rocks, later of the day, you will encounter some nomads camps scattered around and you may get chance to stop there and visit their tents to see how their family tents are looks like. From the crest of the ridges you will find numerous rock house structures that nomads use for different of period when they moving from place to places. Leten is a nomadic place where you can see some nomad families dwelling in a small black tents that surrounded by their flock of sheep and herd of yaks.

Distance: 20kms, Sleeping Elevation: 4950m, Duration: 8 hours, Ascent: 300m, Descent: 600m

While walking steeply up over the small mount lead you a fascinating valley, cairns at the crest are very common to see on high passes in Tibet, some believe building cairns on the high mountains will improve your luck, and some believe that building of small house like cairns will help you to find places to stay after your death, during the Bardo state which is an intermediate period of death and rebirth. Further walking through the valley, you will experience the beauty of Nomads life on the high plateau, cross over the Lasar La Pass (5300m) which will be the highest point of the day, from there you will have the first view of the Yangpache valley, soon after you will get to the day destination Bartso, it is a small nomads villages for about six nomad families surrounded by Juniper trees—camping next to Bartso village.

Sleeping Elevation: 4474m, Ascent: 150m, Descent: 150m,

Today is one of the best days of this trekking tour where we will view the nomad’s herders as well as nuns at the Darjeeling Nunnery late in the day, continues to follow the wide trail and you will view the Holy Mount Nyenchen Thangla (7111m) from a ridge, Mt. Nyenchen Thangla is one of the holy mountains in the region that locals pray and hang prayers flags in front of it for the well-being of the all sentient beings. After you set up your camp next to the Darjeeling nunnery, you have time to visit the nunnery and interact with Buddhist nuns at the nunnery. Camping next to the nunnery.

Sleeping Elevation: 4747m, Duration: 4 Hours

Today’s trek is about a 4-hour trek within the green valley, and following the Lango river will meet the Yangpache-Shigatse road, walk for two hours through the giant landscape to a steel bridge (4400m) spanning the river, and meet the northern route to Shigatse. You will reach the Yangpachen monastery, which was established during the 15th century and is run by Shamar Rinpoche, a lama in the Kagyupa order. Some of the murals inside the monastery are interesting. Our car and driver will meet us at the monastery, on the way we will stop at the famous Yangpachen Hot spring and you can have a bath in the hot spring and get relief after a long day’s trekking.

After a short time at the hot spring, we will drive to Namtso Lake via Damshung town. The lake is 3 3-hour drive from Yangpachen, and passing the long, steep road leads us to the Lagen pass (5190m) with piles of prayer flags on top. There, we can view the Namtso Lake from a distance. Within the valley, you can also see nomadic black tents around the vast grasslands. Namtso Lake is the second-largest saltwater lake in all of China, with a length of 70km and a width of 30km. Overnight guesthouse.

Sleeping Elevation: 3656m, Duration: 4-5 Hours

We trace the road back to Lhasa along the Qinghai-Tibet train track, en route we will visit stop at a nomad family tent, local nomads moving places to places except winter, experiencing their home from the inside and spend a while with them and get to know the lifestyle of plateau nomads. Then we cross the Legen la pass and follow the Damchu River downstream to Lhasa via Tulong. Overnight in Lhasa.