Tibet Ganden Samye Trek

Arrive in Kathmandu international airport and transfer to Hotel overnight at Kathmandu.

Altitude 1335 m

Meals Breakfast

Accommodation Hotel

A half day guided tour to several of historical and spiritual attractions enlisted under the World Heritage Sites. The trek leader will meet the group for a meeting and provide a detailed briefing on the trek. All the required information regarding the trek would be provided. 

Altitude 1335 m

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Drive to Kathmandu international airport for take flight to Lhasa (3650m)

Altitude 3650 m

Meals Breakfast

Accommodation Hotel

In the morning, you will go to the most sppendid museum, the Potala Palace, and explore the grandest of its myriad chapals. See the jeweled burial chorten of past Dalai Lamas as well as statuary,frescoes and paintings. Later visit the Jokhang Temple, which is considered as the most sacred temple in Tibet, it draws tremendous number of pilgrims from all over Tibet each year for it, houses a magnificent image of Sakyamuni at 12 years old. Then stroll around Barkhor, a pilgrimage circuit that encircles the Jokhang, it also serves as the biggest market in Lhasa Overnight in Lhasa.

Altitude 3650 m

Meals Breakfast

Accommodation Hotel

Today, you will explore Tibet's two greatest monasteries, Drepung and Sera. Which once housed about 10,000 monks, Drepung monastery is situated at the foothill of a mountain and was founded by Jamyang Choeje in 1416. The monastery is divided into two different colleges that is Drepung loselling and Drepung Gomang College. The Ganden podrang is famous among them as it is the government centre during fifth Dalai Lama and later moved to the famous Potala palace during fifth Dalai Lama. In the afternoon exploring the Sera monastery which was founded in 1419 by Tsongkapa's disciple Jamchen Choeje. The whole monastery is divided into two colleges and there are Sera 'jhe' and Sera 'may' respectively. Among them 'Tsokhang chenmo' where the monks from all the colleges assemble and pray together there, continue drive to Ganden Monastery overnight at Guest house.

Altitude 3650 m

Meals Breakfast

Accommodation Hotel

In the morning, you will visit Ganden Monastery, and other attractions around. Then start trekking, our first day of trekking begins at the highest point on the Ganden Kora. From here we walk along a saddle trail. After leaving this trail with wondrous views we traverse the west side of the ridge before passing through an ancient Hepu village. Later in the day we pass through Ani Pagong, a narrow bottleneck in the trail and former site of a nunnery. We will end the day with an ascent towards Yama Do. 

Altitude 4200 m

Meals Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation Camp

In the morning after breakfast we leave the valley floor and make our way through a steep gully rising form the stream bank. Finally, we climb over the Shug La and begin our climb down through treacherous boulder fields. Later, we cross Tsotup Chu, a large stream winding through the valley floor. A comfortable camp will be set up in one of the many herder fields overnight at Camp.

Altitude 4400 m

Meals Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation Camp

Today we follow the Tsotup Chu down through its tributary and head towards the Chitu La pass. After ascending this rocky pass we will quickly descend down and find a beautiful place to camp in one of the fields surrounding the stream. To find our campsite we will meander through quiet herder camps for nearly an hour overnight at Camp.

Altitude 4200 m

Meals Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation Camp

The trail gets wider and easier as we follow it through scrub forests in the main valley. Beautiful streams and lush forests surround us as we walk. However, the desert is close by. The next few hours are arguably the most beautiful part of our trek. More than 15 types of scrub trees, blooming rhododendrons, and vast meadow will amaze you every step of the way! After passing through this wondrous landscape we will trek pass the Changtang village. Less than an hour away participants can choose to make the one-hour hike to the Yamalung Hermitage. Yamalung is an ancient and holy Buddhist meditation site, but is completely up to you whether you want to go. Later in the day we join the Samye valley along the babbling tributary stream overnight at Camp.

Altitude 3540 m

Meals Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation Camp

The Samye Monastery is the first temple to be built in Tibet and the first complete with the three Buddhist jewels of Buddha, Dharma and Sangha. With these unique features, this splendid temple has become an attraction for visitors from near and far. After visiting Samye, we finish the trek and go back to Lhasa overnight at Hotel.

Altitude 3650 m

Meals Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation Hotel

Drive to Airport for leave Lhasa and take flight to Kathmandu, receipt in Kathmandu airport and transfer to Hotel at Kathmandu.

Altitude 1335 m

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Accommodation Hotel

A leisure day in Kathmandu which can used for an early morning mountain flights to Everest or can extended into further more tours to Chitwan, Lumbini etc. (This is also spare day in case of cancellation of flights) (Overnight at Hotel. Breakfast included)

Altitude 1335 m

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A representative from Visit Himalaya Treks Pvt. Ltd. will check your flight tickets and transfer you to the airport before two hours from your flight with a hope of seeing you again in the future. 

Altitude 1335 m

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