Lhasa And Tsedang Explore 6 Days

In and around Lhasa

Fly to Lhasa airport, upon arrival your guide will meet you and transfer you to the city. Driving along the highest river in the world –Yar Long Tsangpo River for one and a half hours to Lhasa. After check-in hotel, take a complete rest for acclimatization.

Meals: None

Accommodation Lhasa 5* hotel

Start point

Arrival exit, Lhasa Gonggar Airport, 拉萨贡嘎机场, Shannan Diqu, Tibet, China

Activities : Sightseeing

You will spend the morning exploring the highlights of the Tibetan capital starting with the Potala Palace. The exotic structure is a complex of 13 stories and contains more than 1,000 rooms. The palace is divided into two sections, The White and The Red Palace. White Palace is built as living quarters in the mid-17th century for the fifth to the fourteenth Dalai Lamas. From the White Palace, pilgrims climb to the central Red Palace, completed in the late 17th century and packed with chapels, ornate statues, and the gem-embellished tombs of past Dalai Lamas. The fifth Dalai Lama's tomb is made from two tons of gold with three stories. Afterwards, you will visit Tibet’s holiest shrine, the Jokhang Temple, which has a history of over 1300 years, housing one of Tibet's most venerated images, a solid gold statue of Shakyamuni Buddha. Then you can walk around the Barkhor area filled with thousands of pilgrims, shops, and tea houses to relax and soak up the atmosphere, you can purchase Tibetan jewellery in the Tibetan shops here as well.

Meals: Breakfast and lunch

Activities : Sightseeing

Today you will visit Drepung Monastery, Sera Monastery, and Norbulingka Park. Drepung” in Tibetan means “the hill of rice”, for the white Monastery and the Norbulingka Park. “Drepung” in Tibetan means “the hill of rice”. The white Monastery looks like a big hill of rice which is situated halfway up Mt Gan poi Uze in the western suburbs of Lhasa. It was founded in 1416 by Jam yang Choje, a Disciple of Trongkhaba, founder of the Yellow Hat sect. The monastery, occupying an area of 250,000 square meters with 7700 lamas in the past, is the largest monastery in Asia.

Sera in Tibetan means “Hailstone”, legend tells that it hailed during the foundation of this famous monastery. It is situated at the foot of Mt. Peibuqie in the northern suburb of Lhasa. Sera monastery was founded in 1419 by Jam Chen Choje, another disciple of Tsongkaba. It once housed 5500 lamas in its golden age and is proud of its glorious history during The Ming Dynasty.

Norbulingka park, known as Jewel Park was the site of the Dalai Lamas’ summer palace. It is situated one kilometre west of the Potala Palace and covers a total area of 360,000 square meters. In 1752, the 7th Dalai Lama built the first palace in this park, since then, Norbulingka has become the summer palace for successive Dalai lamas to carry out their political and religious activities during the summer season.

Meals: Breakfast and lunch

Accommodation Lhasa hotel

Activities : Sightseeing

Today we will drive to Samye Monastery. Situated on the north bank of the Yarlung Tsangpo (Brahmaputra) river, this monastery was built in 779 A.D, and presided over and constructed by Padmasambhava and Trisong Detsen. It is the first monastery to allow tonsured monks to become real Buddhists. In the afternoon, back to Tsedang& visit Yumba Lhakhang, which was first built by Nyatri Tsenpo, the first Tibetan king at the beginning of the 2nd century B.C.

Meals: Breakfast and lunch

Accommodation Tsedang hotel

Activities : Sightseeing

Today you will take a ride to Trandruk Temple which is situated beside the road on the east bank of the Yarlung River in Nedong County. Trandruk Temple was built in the 7th century by King Song Gampo. The tombs of the Tibetan kings are located here. It is believed that all the early Tibetan kings are buried here. Today only 9 of them are still visible.

Its remaining glory is the Pearl Thangka, an image of King Songtsen Gampo's wife, Princess Wencheng, as the White Tara, created from thousands of tiny pearls meticulously sewn onto a pink background. This is in the central chapel upstairs, which also houses an original statue of Padmasambava at the age of eight.

Accommodation Tsedang hotel

Meals: Breakfast and lunch

Activities : Sightseeing

Transfer to Lhasa airport Takes a flight to your next destination.

Trip concludes

Meals: B

Endpoint

The main entrance, Lhasa Gonggar Airport, 拉萨贡嘎机场, Shannan Diqu, Tibet, China

Activities : Sightseeing