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ShareLhasa Sightseeing Tour - 5 Days
05 Days
Easy
4300m
5 -15 People
Kathmandu / Kathmandu
All Year
- 5 Breakfast
- 5 Lunch
- 4 Dinner
- 3 Star Hotels
- private & Sharing
- 1 - 1 personUS$ 2250
- 2 - 4 personUS$ 2075
- 5 - 8 personUS$ 1845
- 9 - 12 personUS$ 1750
- 12 over 9999 US$ 1675
- Your safety, our no 1 priority
- Best price guarantee
- Experienced & dedicated team
- Easy booking, no hidden charge
- You can customize this trip
US$ 2250
Highlights of Lasha Sightseeing Tour
- A modern city with ancient sites and monuments of great religious interest.
- One of the world’s highest cities steeped with historical magnificent monasteries.
- Fascinating tour around interesting sites of age-old heritage and colorful culture.
- Impressive and majestic Potala Palace the famous landmark and pride of Tibet.
- Lhasa Sightseeing Tour best sites and beyond to Ganden Monasteries facing grand scenery
Trip Overview
Experience the magic of Lhasa with Namaste Nepal Trekking and Research Hub’s special ‘Lhasa Sightseeing Tour,’ offering a unique journey through one of the world’s highest cities. Lhasa is not just Tibet’s capital but also its bustling center of trade and spirituality, tucked away behind the towering Himalayas.
This tour is perfect for anyone curious about Tibetan traditions. You’ll visit ancient monasteries and cultural spots, discovering the rich history and local way of life. Your adventure starts with a scenic flight over the Himalayas, where you can see famous peaks like Everest and Makalu. After landing at Gonggar Airport, a short drive takes you into Lhasa, guided by our friendly Tibetan experts.
Highlights of the tour include the famous Potala Palace, standing tall over the city. You’ll also explore Drepung Monastery, once a major place of Buddhist learning, and Jokhang Temple, the oldest shrine in Tibet. Wander through Barkhor Square, a lively market where Tibetans in traditional dress come for pilgrimage.
Enjoy the peaceful atmosphere of Sera Monastery and take in the stunning views from Ganden Monastery, founded centuries ago by Tsong Khapa. Each day is filled with new experiences, like watching monks debate and admiring beautiful Buddhist art.
As your journey ends, you’ll return to Kathmandu with cherished memories of your time in Lhasa. Join us on the ‘Lhasa Sightseeing Tour’ to discover the heart and soul of Tibet, with the warm hospitality of Namaste Nepal Trekking and Research Hub guiding your way.
Short Itinerary of Lhasa Sightseeing Tour
Fly to Lhasa Gonggar Airport from Kathmandu and drive to Lhasa City
Full-day sightseeing Tour of Lhasa, Drepung Monastery, Shera Monastery, visit Jhorkang Temple and Norbulingka summer palace
Sightseeing Tour of Potala Palace with afternoon free to explore around
Drive to Ganden Monastery & visit and back to Lhasa
Drive to Lhasa Gonggar Airport and Fly to Kathmandu
Detailed Itinerary of Lhasa Sightseeing Tour
Day 1: Fly to Lhasa Gonggar Airport from Kathmandu and drive to Lhasa City
Arriving at Kathmandu a few days earlier with a pleasant time, get ready for an exciting journey for Mt. Everest base camp tour. After a good breakfast then transfer to Kathmandu and Nepal international airport for a scenic flight of an hour to reach on Tibet soil. On flight boarding in Air China, enjoy a sweeping panorama of Himalayan peaks, with Mt. Everest and other world’s highest mountain ranges.
Soon plane flies over the Himalayas to land at Gongar, in Tibet international airport, after going through immigration with visa formalities, and the head outside of the air terminal. Namaste Nepal Tibetan counterpart tour agent native Tibetan guide and driver receives you. Then take a short smooth drive to reach Lhasa city and then check into a nice Tibetan-style hotel with well-furnished rooms.
The hotel is located in the old part of Lhasa near Barkor square a great place populated mostly by Tibetans. Time in the afternoon after checking into your nice room for a leisure walk around the market square around busy Barkor.
Day 2: Full-day sightseeing Tour of Lhasa, Drepung Monastery, Shera Monastery, visit Jhorkang Temple and Norbulingka summer palace
Morning after breakfast our native Tibetan guide takes you for a short drive west of Lhasa. The city with modern buildings and wide road, and yet retaining the age-old glory of past centuries cultural heritage.
Drive leads uphill to Drepung Monastery complex, the largest and important monastery of Tibet, built as a university for Tibetan Buddhism learning in the early centuries. The word Drepung means a heap of rice, as you look from the distance with the whole monastery washed in white paints of lime.
Drepung with religious history as well a resident of many high priests till 5th Dalai Lama, then shifted the residence after Potala Palace was completed.
Enjoy a tour of Drepung Monastery interior and prayer main hall, and then head towards Jokhang Temple the first Buddhist religious building built, during the time of King Songsten Gampo. Situated in the main center of Lhasa, within busy Barkhor market.
Visit the Buddhist temple of historic importance and tales of ancient times,
tour of temple interior with color religious painting, visit the scenic terraces, for a scenic photograph of colorful busy Barkhor Market surrounding with close views of Potala Palace.
Afternoon tour a short drive to the southwest to reach Norbulingka, a summer palace of the semi-modern interior with lovely large garden and tall trees, our guide will explain the history and story behind this summer palace.
Our tour ends continues towards another important Shera monastery and watch young monks students practice debates of great interest.
From here ends the day tour and time for refreshing rest and a short stroll around the happening areas of Barkor.
Day 3: Sightseeing Tour of Potala Palace with afternoon free to explore around
Morning tour takes you to the most important site at majestic Potala Palace located on a red hill, in the center of Lhasa dominating the whole city within Kyuchi valley.
Out of 100 rooms, visitors are allowed to enter few main halls and prayer rooms, including the meditation cave of King Songsten Gampo, magnificent Potala Palace, which was built in early 640 A.D. over the cave during the time of the 5th Dalai Lama.
A beautiful palace holds as a landmark of Tibet, after an interesting visit with a free afternoon for individual activities and shopping souvenirs.
Day 4: Drive to Ganden Monastery & visit and back to Lhasa
Morning tour takes you east of Lhasa, an interesting scenic drive past lovely farm villages and town, and then on a winding road uphill, with time for shortstop near a farm village. Where some visitors are allowed inside the house to catch glimpse of Tibetan domestic life and custom. Drive continues after a refreshing break to reach a high hill near Ganden Monastery, the monastery complex building situated on a U amphitheater shape. Enjoy the tour of this nice monastery and feeling great in these tranquil surroundings.
The history of Ganden Monastery or Ganden Namgyeling or Monastery of Gahlden, one of the “great three” Gelugpa monasteries as the university of Tibet.
Located east in Dagzê farm County outskirt of Lhasa. Ganden Monastery was founded in 1409 by Je Tsongkhapa Lozang-dragpa, founder of the Gelugpa order.
The name Ganden means “joyful” and is the Tibetan name for Tuṣita, the heaven where the bodhisattva Maitreya is said to reside. After a wonderful morning tour of Ganden and an interesting scenic drive, head back for last overnight in Lhasa.
Day 5: Drive to Lhasa Gonggar Airport and Fly to Kathmandu
As per time for the flight to Kathmandu, enjoy breakfast, and depart from the hotel for an hour good drive to Gongar airport.
Here before entering the airport terminal bid farewell to our cheerful Tibetan guide and driver, and then through immigration and security check as you board in a big airplane of Air China Airlines. After a little more than an hour landing at Kathmandu, after a memorable experience in Lhasa Sightseeing tour.
At Kathmandu airport, transfer to your respective hotel, with the rest of the day free for individual activities and shopping souvenirs in Kathmandu.
In the evening to celebrate the successful completion of our journey to the hart of Tibet, the farewell dinner will be served in a traditional Nepalese restaurant with cultural performances, Where you can taste and fill our Nepali Culture and we will also provide the Tour Certificate of your wonderful journey with us.
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Includes/Excludes
- Tibet Tourist visa
- All the entrance tickets of the monasteries and Temples
- All Airport hotel transfers by private tourist vehicle
- Round trip flight from Kathmandu to Lhasa to Kathmandu
- Farewell dinner in Kathmandu
- 3-star accommodation on a sharing basis with a BB plan
- An experienced English-speaking local tour guide
- For a group of 10+ people, we assign a Nepalese group escort/Leader throughout the tour from Kathmandu to Kathmandu
- All ground transportation in Tibet as per the itinerary.
- All necessary government and service charge
- Nepal visas fee (Lowest available is for a 15 days visa costing $30/person)
- International airfare to and from Kathmandu
- Lunch And Dinners during the whole tour
- Extra porter charges
- Extra night accommodating(if in the case early return from the tour then the scheduled itinerary)
- Travel and rescue insurance
- Personal expenses (phone calls, laundry, bar bills, personal drinks, battery charge, bottle or boiling water, hot shower, wifi and or internet, etc)
- Tips for guide and Drivers
- Excess luggage charges
Complimentary
- Online Pre-Trip Briefing after booking confirmation
- Free excess luggage storage facilities at our office store
- Down jacket and seasonal sleeping bag (to be returned after completion of the trip).
- Namaste Nepal’s duffle bag (to be returned after completion of the trip)
- Namaste Nepal’s T-shirt
- Tour map
- A self-sufficient medical first aid kit containing vital medications.
- Tour Certificate
- Oximeter to check your pulse, oxygen saturation, and heart rate twice daily (Very useful to check AMS symptoms)
- hand sanitizer and face mask
Trip Map of Lhasa Sightseeing Tour - 5 Days
Lhasa Sightseeing Tour - 5 Days Altitude Chart
Additional Information About Lasha Sightseing Tour
Accommodation and Food in Lhasa Sightseeing Tour
In major cities like Lhasa, the hotels are all tourist standard with good facilities, large clean rooms with attached bath/toilets running hot and cold water, and room service 24 hours on request. They also have star-category hotels.
The food in Lhasa is of a high standard. For larger groups, a set of buffet meals of variations from continental, Chinese, and Tibetan dishes.
Best Time to Visit Lhasa.
The Best Time is from April to May and September to October, including the monsoon wet season from June to August. As Tibet falls on rain shadow, the southern Himalayan mountain range forms a barrier for monsoon rain clouds, and they do not reach Tibet.
Flights to Lhasa for Lhasa Sightseeing Tour
Whether you fly from other cities of China, a Tibetan town close to the mainland, where Air China and China South Airlines fly almost daily flights to Lhasa city airport at Gonggar, Tibet International Airport.
From Kathmandu to Lhasa, Tibet, the Sichuan Airline and Air China flight departs every Monday from Tribhuvan International Airport. And land at Lhasa Gonggar, Tibet International Airport. Flight duration of 1 hour 15 minutes covering an aerial distance of 570 km, flies over great Himalaya range.
During the flight from Kathmandu to Lhasa, You will see the views of the world’s highest mountain Mt. Everest, with other peaks like Lhotse, Makalu, Cho-Oyu, and Shisapangma. On reaching Tibetan soil at Lhasa Gonggar airport, you will be welcomed by our Tibetan guide and drive for about an hour to enter the fabled city of Lhasa.
AC Power to charge our electronic devices and gadgets
In Kathmandu / Nepal, the capacity is 609 MW in an integrated power system, 230 volts in AC single phase, and 400 volts in three phases in general.
Electricity in Tibet / China is 230 volts AC, 50 cycles. They have two pins & 3 pins power sockets, and you better have two Two-pin travel plug adapters, which will be useful for charging your batteries.
Time zone and currencies used in Tibet
In Tibet, like mainland China, they use Beijing Standard Time, which is 8 hours ahead of GMT (Greenwich Mean Time), 2 hours and 15 minutes ahead of Nepal Standard Time Zone.
In Tibet, Chinese currency, which is about US $1, equals 6: 50 Chinese Renminbi Yuan, the official currency of the People’s Republic of China, and translates to “people’s money.
Health and Safety Measures Against AMS (Acute Mountain Sickness)
Travel to Tibet, where all visitors must be in good health. Tibet is at an average altitude of 3,000 meters above sea level—no wonder it is known as the Roof Top of the World. Most areas of Tibet are waterless and have dry landscapes. With very little vegetation and the forested regions, the natives have survived for thousands of years and settled on this harsh terrain. With less air to breathe, you can have some issues with altitude if you are not careful adjusting to its environment and high altitude.
One of the best ways for acclimatization is to climb higher and then rest and sleep in a low place. There is no medicine to avoid AMS except by taking advice from your doctor, local guide, or group leader.
Take things slowly, get enough rest, and drink much water. For slight headaches, one can take aspirin or paracetamol pills. Some travelers take Diamox, a brand name for Acetazolamide, to relieve headaches and fever, a “water pill” (diuretic). They are used as preventive measures to reduce the symptoms of altitude sickness, but it depends on how and where you take them. Best before entering Tibet or high altitude continues till the end, even though you feel better. Side effects are like the nibbling of fingers, which makes you pee a lot, so travelers in doubt can buy portable oxygen. Available in towns and cities, big shops and stores in Tibet, where your local Tibetan guide will help you.
Information regarding altitude mountain sickness or AMS (Acute Mountain Sickness), the worst symptom is HACE (High Altitude Cerebral Edema).
This means water in the brain, similar to HAPE (High Altitude Pulmonary Edema), a symptom of water in the lungs.
Travelers with the above symptoms should descend to the lower level with an accompanying guide, staff, and close friends or relatives. Fly to Kathmandu or the nearest Tibetan city or town with suitable hospitals.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why this tour of only 4 nights and 5 days in Lhasa?
We have designed this tour for interested travelers with dreams to see Tibet and the fabled city Lhasa with their limited holiday duration, we do have longer trips for Tibet also, which you can search on our home page/website also or contact us for a longer tour of Tibet.
Do people get altitude sickness or AMS (Acute Mountain Sickness)?
Normally, some people get a slight headache after rest, and drinking enough fluid and water, helps to acclimatize from the symptoms of AMS or altitude sickness.
Chances are small, that you get severe AMS, as we have set the itinerary day with enough time in Lhasa and on route to Everest base camp.
Our flexible program itinerary helps and supports for proper acclimatization before reaching a higher altitude to Everest base camp.
Some people take the Diamox pill for safety measures and precaution, which you can carry as per your doctor and guide advice.
Tibet with an average height of 3,500 m, where you have to take things slow with enough rest, drinking much fluid like safe drinking water, green tea, or soup will help to overcome the symptoms.
What is the time zone and currencies used in Tibet?
In the whole Tibet like in mainland China use Beijing Standard Time. Which is 8 hours ahead of GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) 2 hours and 15 minutes ahead of Nepal Standard Time Zone.
In Tibet use Chinese currency which is about the US $1 equals 6: 50 Chinese Renminbi Yuan, which is the official currency of the People’s Republic of China, and translates to “people’s money.
How are the standard of hotels and food in Tibet?
In major cities like Lhasa, the hotels are all tourist standard with good facilities, large clean room with attached bath/toilets running hot and cold water, with room service 24 hours on request.
The food in Lhasa is of high standard, for larger groups a set of buffet meals of variation from continental, Chinese, and Tibetan as well for breakfast.
To charge our electronic device and gadgets what are AC power:
In Kathmandu / Nepal capacity 609 MW in Integrated Power System, of 230 volts in A.C. single phase and 400 volts in three phases for general.
Electricity in Tibet / China is 230 volts AC, 50 cycles. We do have two pins & 3 pins power sockets, you better have two Pin travel plug adapter which will be useful to charge your batteries.
How many people on this tour?
Depending upon the time of booking and holiday duration of some people, we do have set departure dates in all our tours, for Tibet minimum of 3-4 people and a maximum of more than 10 people in the group.
The larger group much better as the tour cost will be slightly lower in a small group, we also organize and run this tour for a minimum of 2-3 people also, a special rate to cover all tour package.
Can we take overland to Lhasa from Kathmandu?
Yes, it can be done we have another week-long overland trip to Lhasa from Kathmandu and with a flight back or vice-versa. But on this tour we have included flights both ways to and from Lhasa, to save time where some people might have limited holiday for the trip.
How is the weather in Lhasa at the time of our visit in good season?
In and around the whole Tibet, the weather is fine and clear most of the season, as the land with high altitude gets much sun for long hours, although cold morning and from late afternoon till night time.
Chances of snowfall sometimes around high hills and passes as altitude wise, do get light rain around monsoon time of June to mid-September, but the mostly dry and arid country as weather-wise. Does not get heavy rain like in southern countries of the Himalayas range.
Do we need sunblock/sunscreen cream?
As Tibet is located at a high altitude during day time the sun is strong with UV rays, where travelers need strong sunblock cream to be safe from Ultra Violet lights, as well as wearing sun-hat, sunglass, and long sleeve shirts.
Can I stay in Lhasa after the tour to visit mainland China?
Yes, can be done but you have to inform us on booking so that we can make necessary arrangement for you, especially the entry visa for Tibet which will be in the group a paper visa. After the tour, your name has to be struck off from the list from the group name list. Where you can obtain a new visa for mainland China with help from our counterpart agent in Lhasa / Tibet.
From Lhasa, one can travel to Beijing by train, flights, or overland in local transport as well to other parts of major cities in China.
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- 2 - 4 personUS$ 2075
- 5 - 8 personUS$ 1845
- 9 - 12 personUS$ 1750
- 12 over 9999 US$ 1675
- Your safety, our no 1 priority
- Best price guarantee
- Experienced & dedicated team
- Easy booking, no hidden charge
- You can customize this trip
US$ 2250
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