Special Lhasa Tour Package

Arrival in Lhasa (sea-level: 3658m) with one and a half hours driving from Lhasa Gonggar Airport or 20minutes from the Lhasa Railway Station to downtown Lhasa. Met by your Tibetan guide and transferred to your hotel in Lhasa to be acclimatized to the high altitude. Overnight at Lhasa

After breakfast at the hotel, visit the Potala Palace, Potala Palace is perched on the 130m-high Marpo Ri (Red Hill) with 13 stories and more than 1000roms in the middle of Beijing Road, the heart of Lhasa City. It was once the winter residence of the Dalai Lama. The first recorded use of the site dates back to the 7th century AD when King Songtsen Gampo built a palace here. The present construction began during the reign of the fifth Dalai Lama 1645. It takes at least 2-hour to visit those rooms, halls, and chapels. Afternoon, visit the Jokhang Temple, the 1300-year-old Jokhang Temple is now the spiritual center of Tibet. From the earliest dawn to last light, daily worshippers and once-in-a-lifetime pilgrims make the inner circumambulation (kora) of the Jokhang to earn religious merit. Some of them prostrate outside circuiting the temple. It now houses the life-sized statue of the twelve-year-old Sakyamuni brought by Songtsan Gampo’s Chinese wife – Princess Wencheng. Walk around Jokhang Temple which is called Bakhore Street. Overnight at Lhasa

After breakfast at the hotel, drive to Norbulingka served as a traditional summer palace and residence starting with the 7th Dalai Lama, and now it is the largest garden in Tibet. The Sera Monastery is the last of the three principal Yellow Sect monasteries built in Lhasa. Afternoon, visit Sera Monastery: Located 5km north of Lhasa, this monastery was the first Gelugpa monastery in Lhasa and has remained the main seat of this major Buddhist order ever since. About 600 monks are now in residence here. Debating takes place from 3:30 pm to 5 pm in a garden next to the assembly hall in the center of the monastery. There is a fine kora path around the monastery. Overnight at Lhasa

After breakfast, drive to Drak Yerpa is a place that has deep meanings in the Tibetan spiritual culture. There is a saying goes like this: “Lhasa is the shrine of Tibet, Drak Yerpa is the shrine of Lhasa. Not seeing Drak Yerpa in Lhasa is just like making a dress without the collar.” The entrance to the Yerpa Valley is about 30km northeast of Lhasa on the northern bank of the Kyichu River. After the visit, drive back to Lhasa. Overnight at Lhasa

After breakfast, your guide and driver will see you off at the airport or train station. Your Tibet tour ends.