This quick trip is jam-packed with special sites of cultural, religious, and historic significance. Begin your trip in the historic city of Xining, the capital of Qinghai province and travel beyond the city to see two of Amdo’s most famous attractions: Qinghai Lake and Kumbum Monastery. Then hop on the train to Lhasa for the rail ride of a lifetime.
Zhangye has been a listed destination for photography tour in the recent years, with its truly great landscapes and colours forms. In this photography tour, you will have sufficient time to take photos of the Rainbow Mountains, rocky landscapes, desert wonders, and cultural relics. Take the opportunity to see the Mo'gao Caves which might disappear in fifty years.
This tour starts from Xi'an and end in Beijing. Featured destinations are: Ancient City Wall, Muslim Quarter, Wild Goose Pagoda Square with fountain Show, Terracotta Warriors and Horses, Summer Palace, Olympic Theme Park, Tian'anmen Square, Forbidden City, Beijing Food Street, Temple of Heaven, Greatwall at Juyongguan pass and extra.
The festival takes place at the base of Mt. Kailash, and includes participation or observation of various cultural and traditional festivities held in the proximity of Dharpoche. When the festival ends (after about 3 hours), participants will attend a kora (circumambulation trek) and set a big prayer pole around which locals will be saying prayers. This is an authentic Saga Dawa Festival tour organized by local Tibet travel experts!
Experience the eerie beauty of moonscape views high above the tree line as you make your way towards Mt. Kailash and Guge Kingdom on a unique journey that will take you out west to the far reaches of the Tibetan Plateau. Visit the cities of Lhasa, Gyantse, and Shigatse, getting your fill of cultural history as you travel through sandstone gorges.
This Lhasa spiritual tour is a special trip to show you all holy places in the city and beyond. Within a short 6 days travel, you can cover, Potala palace, Jokhang Temple, Barkor Street, Norbulingka summer palace, Sera, Drepung and Ganden monasteries. This tour is also favoured by pilgrims all over the world to see Tibetan culture which is pervaded widely from Tibetan Buddhism.
Cycling in the Tibetan Plateaus from Lhasa to Everest biking tour is an awe-inspiring experience and a must for adventure cyclists. Our Tibet biking adventure or cycle tour travels from between two of Asia's most exotic cities. On the tour we will mountain bike over 5 major passes above 5000m and traverse a distance of 1000km over the backbone of the Himalayas.
Get a taste of China's cultural and ethnic diversity as you take a unique journey from Tibet's capital city Lhasa and through the stunning beauty of the far western historic province of Ngari before heading all the way to the ancient Silk Road city of Kashgar. Visit the Potala Palace and Lhasa's famous monasteries. Take the trek of a lifetime around the holy Mt. Kailash and see the ruins of the Kingdom of Guge.
This popular and short cycling journey doesn’t demand extreme efforts, and will offer you wonderful scenery on the vast grassland dotted with sheep, yaks and traditional shepherds camp. With Never-melt snowy mountain Nyenchen Thanglha, sky-railway rushing through aside the road, holy Namtso lake sparkling in the sunshine.
This Mt. Amnye Machen halfway trek offers the best trekking experience in eastern Amdo. It is the most famous pilgrimage route and best trekking adventure tour in the very region. It covers an area size of 660 acres and 13 peaks, the highest of which rises over 6082m above sea level. The fifth Dalai Lama called it the Ever-white Peak. We would recommend this trek from May to December.
