20 days Lhasa to Mt. Kailash Manasarovar lake

20 days Lhasa - Kailash Treks and Tour

Lhasa is the capital city in Tibet, which is situated 3,650m. above sea level. Potala is the highest elevation’s palace in the world, which is known as the roof of the world. Potala palace was built by King Songtsen Gampo 637 B.C., later rebuilt by the 5th Dalai Lama in the 17th Century. The palace is 130 m. above Lhasa city. The palace is built with three meters thick stone walls, 13 floors and more than 1000 different rooms. Today you can visit Potala as a state museum. Paying the entrance ticket, every tourist and pilgrimage can visit as official time. The palace will be closed on Sunday and government holidays in Tibet.

In Buddhism there are three major groups: Hinayana, Mahayana and Vajrayana. In the Vajrayana Tibet Buddhism, there are four different groups Buddhist religion’s Schools (Monasteries) in Tibet. Nyingma, Kagyu, Sakya, and Gelugs (yellow hat group of Dalai Lama)  These all-religious monasteries you can visit during the trip at central Tibet at different places.

Among these four relegion group, Kagyo lineage have another four major and eight minor groups. The great early teachers of the Kagyu lineage include the Indian Mahasiddha Tilopa, his student Naropa, Marpa Chökyi Lodrö the Translator, the great Tibetan yogi, Milarepa and the renowned Gampopa. Nowdays many people belive H.H. Karma pa is the head of Kagyu lineage.

The Holy sacred spiritual Mt. Kailash as Hindu religion, Khang Rimpoche as a local Tibetan is 6,714m. high above sea level, situated in west Tibet. As local Buddhist religious believe the eastern face of Kailash is Crystal, the western ruby, Northern gold and the Southern face is Sapphire. Which is the holy mountain for Buddhist, Hindu, Bon and Jain religion.

The rocky path around Kailash is 52 km. During the trip the most difficult part is Dolma la pass 5,630m. because of high elevation and dry thin air. Local pilgrims walk around Kailash rocky path in a single day about 14 hours journey. But you can do it slowly in three days to complete the journey around Kailash. Some people may get high altitude sickness, if someone has difficulty walking, they can ride a yak or pony to complete the journey.

The Holy lake Manasarovar, As Hindu Sanskrit word ‘Manas’ means mind and ‘Sarovar’ means lake as Buddhism is called Tso Ma pham. The sacred holy lake situated 4,590m. path around the lake 88km. 90 meter deep. Once there were eight Buddhist monasteries around the lake, symbolizing the wheel of life. Most of the monasteries have disappeared, but you can still visit Gotsuk, Seralung, Trugo and Chiu Gompa (monasteries) around the lake. A small spring flows from Mansarovar to Rakshas Tal which is called Gang Ga. At the same place there is a natural hot spring, you have to pay a certain amount for a hot shower or bath.

This pilgrimage trip is specially for the Buddhist religious people from Nepal, India and Bhutan. Other people also can join this trip starting from Kathmandu. The age doesn’t make any difference for this trip, between 17 to 70 years, anyone can do this trip if you are physically fit and healthy. If someone is seriously injured or sick, the only option is rescue by jeep. The rescue is quite expensive, everyone needs to buy travel insurance in Kathmandu.

This trip will start from Lhasa, and end at Kerung as our itinerary. Our Lhasa agent will provide comfortable tourist standard vehicles, Jeep for small groups, van for middle groups and Bus for big groups. During the trip all the hotel or Guest house accommodation with breakfast, and dinner with hot drinks. Lunch at the restaurant as itinerary.

Best season    May to November.
Trip details    20 days Tibet + Nepal.
Maximum elevation    Dolma la pass 5,630m.
Group size    4 to 18 persons.
 

Per person    Euro 2,990.00
Single supplement Euro 380.00 extra cost.
The above-mentioned cost includes all the government taxes.
Group rates available, can be negotiate.