Tsurphu to Yangpachen trekking

Upon your arrival at airport or train station our guide will greet you and transfer to hotel in Lhasa. The rest of the day can be spent relaxing and acclimatizing. Overnight at hotel.

After breakfast, around 8 am your tour guide will meet you at your hotel and take you for an easy visit to Jokhang Temple which is the most revered shrine in the all of Tibet and is constantly bustling with devout pilgrims. Since Jokhang is the bustling bazaar, you will be given the chance to shop around barkhor bazaar, the crowded central market of Lhasa. Afternoon will be busy visiting Drepung Monastery, once the world’s biggest monastery, home to some 10000 Tibetan monks, Drepung monastery situated hidden in rocky ridge just beyond the city.   Overnight at hotel in Lhasa.

After breakfast at hotel, we begin a suturing trip to Potala palace, there is saying, a trip to Tibet will not be complete without visiting the stunning Potala palace, so first of all, our guide will take you to this wonderful palace which is Lhasa’s cardinal landmark and is a wonder of eastern architecture. Your fist site of this huge and stunning structure will be a thrilling moment remembered for years to come. This palace has been a palace since the 5th or 6th century and was once home to the Dalai Lama. In the afternoon you will be taken to visit Sera Monastery, a 15th Century sprawl of golden roofs and whitewashed walls, this extremely well preserved monastery is lies just a few kilometers north of Lhasa and is home to some hundred monks. This monastery is also famous for debating activities which is happening 3 to 4 pm quite regularly every day, we will remind our tour leader not to miss it.

After an early breakfast, we will take a scenic drive from Lhasa to Tsurphu monastery; it takes about 2 hours, and the altitude will up to 4480m. Today, we spend the whole day doing nothing just relaxed and acclimatizing. Overnight at Tsurphu monastery.

breakfast will be at Tsurphu monastery, the stunning first day of our trek up a green valley crisscrossed with Mountain Rivers. We can also see various kinds of mountain goats. During the summer heading months, there will be several small nomadic communities camp here and we may stop into a black tent for a cup of salt and yak butter tea. Summit the ridge top four hours later, emerging onto a high and arid plateau with a scattering of cock-enclosed huts, and find for a flat area for camping. Today is the first day of our trek and we are already enjoying breathtaking and classic Tibetan beauty. Overnight under tent.

Breakfast will be at camp; we start our trek and corss the small pass, the Damchen Nyingteri, bear to the left at the cairns at the summit and descend into a beautiful valley of lichen-coated boulders, meandering streams and open, powder-blue sky. After three hours walk, we will cross the Lasar La and descend into the magical Yangpachen valley, with its extensive plateaus, spiky grass hummocks and tundra – like arid, cracked patches of earth, and head towards Bartso.  The views of brize (translated as female yak herder) and traze (horse keeper) are breathtaking, and we will feel safe in the care of the local mountain god, Nyechen Tanglha. We camp near Bartso, a nomad’s village of 5 or 6 houses, surrounded by the Juniper used for incense all over the Tibetan world. Overnight under a tent.

After breakfast, we leave the Bartso village and head towards a wide trail leading across the valley and over another ridge, from where we will see the views of Nyenchen Tanghlha (7110m), the sacred mountain in central Tibet. Emerge at Tajung village; climb slowly up rolling hills where young nomadic boys and girls picnic on the plateaus as they watch their yaks and sheep graze. The views are again so marvelous! By the afternoon we will reach the small Djore ling ani Gompa (nunnery), near which we will fix our camp. Overnight under a tent.

After breakfast at camp, we start our three to four hours trekking following the Ox-bow Nyango Chu river snaking its way through the grassy valley and head for Yangpachen Gompa. This is an old Kagyupa monastery, with Tibetan Dogs keeping guard, overlooks part of the trans-Himalaya range. We catch our Jeep or van from monastery and drive to the hot springs at Yangbachen, after enjoying the bath at a hot spring we will drive to Lhasa. Overnight at hotel.

After an early breakfast, our guide will drop you off to airport or train station for your onward journey.