8 Days Lhasa Everest Base Camp Group Tour

8 Days Lhasa Everest Base Camp Group Tour is one of the popular choices of tourist who wants to visit Tibet. On this tour, you will start out with tours around Lhasa, the capital city of Tibet, where you will have opportunities to visit must-see, best-loved sites, such as the Potala Palace, the Jokhang Temple, and Drepung and Sera monasteries.

Then, you will embark on an extended tour, which will include overland travel through some of the marvellous landscapes, and visits to key stunning sites of historic and religious significance. For example, the Yamdrok Lake, the Karo La Glacier, and the Pelkhor Chode Monastery in Gyantse.

Next, you will go to Shigatse, The Second Largest city in Tibet and Home to the Largest Buddhist monastery of Tashi Lhunpo.

After Shigatse, you will cross over several high passes, including the Gyatso La, which offers sweeping views of the world highest mountain range, and the Mt. Everest Base Camp.

In addition, you will be able to experience an up-close of the traditional lifestyle of the local Tibetans. We will arrange for your visits to a typical farmers’ village or a nomad tent, and ensure that you have plenty of time at your own disposal to see and feel what it is like to be eating in local Tibetan restaurants and have an afternoon or morning tea in local tea-shops. A visit to Tibetan traditional handicraft centre will be also arranged during the tour to see and learn the extraordinary array of authentic Tibetan traditional and contemporary works of crafts and arts.

This tour from Lhasa to Everest Base Camp can be done anytime from mid-April through to late October. We can arrange this journey for groups of two to ten people. Discount available for groups of 3 or more persons. For a specific quote, please contact us at: losal@tibetuniversaltravel.com

Travel Gear:

Upon joining, each participant will be sent a list of required and recommended gear for this journey that they will be responsible for.

Accommodation:

In Lhasa, Gyantse, and Shigatse, you will be staying in a comfortable and pleasant boutique or 3-star Tibetan-owned hotels. Accommodation in other areas, such as Everest Base Camp, will be best locally available guesthouses. Guesthouses often have no heating facilities, but plenty of blankets upon request. Toilets are usually outside and are not always as hygienic. Showers are often unavailable or only available at the local shower house. In Nepal, you will stay at highly rated boutique hotels in a central location. Hotel upgrades are available in Lhasa and Kathmandu upon request.

Eligibility:

Participants must be in good health and physically fit. Because they need to be able to spend each day walking around towns, villages, and monasteries with their own equipment. Though you will be doing a lot of walking each day, no trekking is required. Most of this tour will take place in mountainous terrain between 3600 meters and 5200 meters (11,800 feet to 17,000 feet) above sea level. You will spend 3 nights in Lhasa for altitude acclimatization before going above 3600 meters. Ascent will be slow and gradual to reduce the risks of altitude-related illness. This tour is not recommended for those who have severe asthma or who have had problems with high elevation in the past.