10 Days Nomadic Trekking Namtso-Tsurphu-Yangpachen

Attractions; Potala palace, Jokhang temple and bustling Bakhor street. Today is your first day on the high plateau and some of you may have a little headache which is very common for travelers by the high altitude, so drinking enough water and mild activity on the first few days is important. In the morning, our guide will meet you at the hotel and take an easy visit to Jokhang Temple in the center of the Old Lhasa city. Jokhang temple is the most sacred temple in all over Tibet and it is always bustling with earnest local pilgrims. After you visit inside the temple you have time to walk around the Bakhor street which is the one of the most devotional circuit as well as a crowded central market of Lhasa since from long time, in the early days it is the most famous local market but now it is changed to tourist gift shopping center. In the afternoon we will visit the famous Potala Palace, the cardinal landmark of Tibet, and the masterpiece of Tibetan architecture, 33rd King Songtsen Gangpo first built it in 7th century, and later in 17^th century rebuilt by 5^th Dalai Lama, since then it was home to the Dalai Lama and his government. Continues acclimatize and alleviate jet lag rest of the day. Overnight in Lhasa.

Attractions; Drepung monastery and Sera monastery. Today we will visit Drepung Monastery in the morning, once the world's largest monastery that housed for more than 10,000 monks, it was a resident of the Dalai Lama prior to Potala Palace, destructions were taken place in different time but still you have lots things to see, walking through numbers of narrow and twisted lane through the monks apartments is more like a typical village. The amazing day will ended with a visit to the Sera Monastery, it is built in the fifteenth century by the Jamchen choji Sakya Yeshi who is disciple of Tsongka pa, few different monastic colleges in Sera is home to several hundred monks from different part of Tibet, the famous Buddhist philosophical debates among the monks are happening every day in the afternoon except Sunday. Continues acclimatize and alleviate jet lag rest of the day. Overnight in Lhasa.

Attractions: Typical Tibetan villages and farmland within the valley isolated Tsurpu monastery. We will drive to Tsurphu monastery, following the Qinghai-Tibet highway from Tolung Dechen on the east bank of the Tolung-Chu for 26km, then we will cross the river via the Lungpa Zampa(bridge), from there the dirt trail off the main road and an inclined rough road takes about 2 hours to get to the monastery, continues zigzagging through the Drowolung villages and barley farmlands within the narrow valley find the monastery deep in the valley sits at 4480m. Tsurpo monastery is the traditional seat of Karmapa, head of the Karma Kagyu sect, built in 1187 by Dusum Khyenpa, continues driving along the bumpy road within the valley will take us to the final destination Tsurphu monatery, it is the seat of the Karmapa, and one of the two main strongholds of the Karma Kargyu school in Tibet (the other being at Karma Gon in Lhato), in the afternoon you have time to explore around the twisted lanes through the aged buildings within the monastery complex.  Overnight at Tsrupu monastic guesthouse or camping.

Attractions: Shupshading is a seasonal herder’s camp, located 4700km. 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 tent that surrounded by their flock of sheep and herd of yaks.

Attractions: Lasar pass (5400m) and Damchen Nyingtri (cairn,5270m).  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 6 nomad families surrounded by Juniper trees. Camping next to Bartso village.

Attraction: Nyinga Ri (4800m), Dorji Ling nunnery.  Today is one of the best day of the trekking tour where we will view the nomads herders as well as nuns at the Dorjeeling Nunnery late in the day, continues 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 wellbeing of the all sentient beings. After you set up your camp next to the Dorjeeling nunnery, you have time to visit the nunnery and interact with Buddhist nuns at the nunnery. Camping next to the nunnery.

Attractions; Yangpachen Monastery, Yangpachen hot spring, Tibet train routes and holy lake Namtso. Today about 4 hours trek within the green valley and following the Lango river will meet the Yangpache-Shigatse road, walk two-hour through the giant landscape to a steel bridge (4400m) spanning the river. Meeting the northern road to Shigatse, you are able to reach to the Yangpachen monastery that is established during the 15^th century running by Shamar Rinpoche who is leading lama in Kagyupa order. Some of the murals inside the monastery are interesting ones. Our car and driver will meet us at the monastery, on the way we will stop at famous Yangpachen Hot spring and you can have a bath in the hot spring and get relief after a long days trekking (Fees at the hot spring is on your own), late in the afternoon drive back to Lhasa. Overnight in Lhasa. Today we are driving to Namtso lake via Damshung town, the lake is 3 hours drive from the Yangpachen and passing the long steep road leads us to the Lagen pass (5190m) with piles of prayer flags on the top. There we can view the Namtso Lake from the distance. Down within the valley, you can also see nomadic black tents all around the vast grasslands. Namtso Lake is the second largest saltwater lake in whole China with 70km in length and 30km width. Overnight guesthouse.

Attraction: Tibetan Nomadic family. 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 awhile with them and get to know lifestyle of plateau nomads. Then we cross the Legen la pass and follow the Damchu River downstream to Lhasa via Tulong. Overnight in Lhasa.

Now you are leaving from Tibet and you are going to send off by our staff to train station or Lhasa Airport.