Mount Kailash Tour

Our guide will be to receive you at Kathmandu airport,(TIA) transfer you to the hotel, and help with check-in formalities. Rest or explore the interesting streets of Kathmandu on your own overnight at the hotel.

While we will apply a collect your Chinese visa, you will go for a guided tour of Kathmandu including Kathmandu Durbar square, Swoyambhunath stupa, and Bouddhanath stupa. Evening briefing about the Mt Kailash trip. Overnight at the hotel.

First day of your Kailash adventure! We drive from Kathmandu to Nepal Tibet border along a scenic highway. After immigration formalities at the border, you meet our Tibetan guide-driver . After some briefing, we drive to Nyalam 3300m. Rest or explore around. O/n in a hotel.

As you gain considerable height from 1350 m in Kathmandu to 3300 m in Nyalam, it is very important we rest and acclimatize in Nyalam before further driving. Free afternoon look around. Overnight at the hotel.

First day with a long drive on the desert terrain. Driving past nomad camps and sheep and yak herds we cross the high Labung La pass at 5050m. We can see Gaurishankar, Shishapangma, and Langtang Himal, Ganesh Himalaya from the pass. Continue to drive through Khunmen Tso, Sinling, Karru Ongchen, and Peiku tso Lake (4400m). We will be crossing the river Brahmaputra ( “Yarling Tsangpo” in Tibetan ) to reach Saga (4600m). Overnight at the hotel.

Watching the mountains in distance and driving through the dusty roads we pass through the small town of Zhongba before reaching Paryang. At praying you will feel the excitement of reaching Manasarovar the next day. Overnight at the hotel.

It is a long but exciting day, offering the first view of mt Kailash and the holy lake only after several hours of drive. As you approach this serene and sacred lake, the historic Chiu Monastery becomes visible on the North West shore of the lake. From this vantage point, you can have a glimpse of majestic Mount Kailash. Manasarovar, the highest fresh water lake with turquoise complexion – surrounded by mt Kailash, Mt.Gurula-Mandala, and Lake Rakchyas is simply heavenly .over night at tent.

After some peaceful hours at the shores of the sacred Lake Manasarovar with the snowy massif of Gurla Mandhata 7694m just across the lake, we drive 30 km to Darchen which serves as the base for Mt Kailash kora ( circumambulation). The Kora is 53 km in total and completed in three days. Overnight at a tent.

It is one of the exciting days walking along the beautiful rocky cliffs and waterfalls with some clouds in the clear blue sky. The 15 km trail takes almost 7 hrs. overnight at a tent.

Hardest but Holiest day of your pilgrimage trek, cross Dolma La pass at 5670 m. Once you reach the top, just do the holiest offering and sit down for meditation to forget yourself. By the late afternoon, you will arrive at Zuthul Puk.

Today, another Big Day! Crossing high Cho-la pass ( Tsho-la) with an early breakfast walk leads to a steep up and then crossing glacier of the eastern side. The top of Cho-la at 5,367m and sometimes it can be challenging to cross in snow conditions; the top offers excellent views of high mountains and of Cholatse Glacier, from here descend carefully to a small lake on the way to Dzongla for overnight stop after a tough morning and day walk.

Complete the kora and drive to lake Manasarovar. Explore around or rest. O/n in camp.

Drive to Paryang (277km) 7-8 hr

Drive Paryang to Saga (230km) 7-8 hrs

Drive to Nyalam or Zhangmu: (245km) 6-7 hr.

Driving further to Nepal and Tibet border, complete the immigration formalities, get your Nepal visa. Say goodbye to your Tibetan guide and driver. You will be received by our guide from Kathmandu and drive to Kathmandu. Overnight hotel in Kathmandu.

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