Tibet AGOSTO 2010

Hey

Sto cercando compagni di viaggio per un tour del Tibet che a me sembra bellissimo.

Faremo 4 gg di trekking tra Ganden e Samye (!!) poi parteciperemo a 2caratteristiche feste tibetane (Shoton e Nagchu Horse Racing festival) e inoltre visiteremo alcuni dei monasteri più importanti del Tibet centrale. Che ne dite?

Se siete interessati e/o avete suggerimenti contattatemi a questo indirizzo mail: daibruno77@gmail.com

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A proposito questo è il programma completo di viaggio:

2-Aug      day 1 - Arrive in Lhasa. Meet with your guide and transfer to hostel in Lhasa.

3-Aug      day 2 –Lhasa tour (Potala
Palace and Jokhang Temple),
no car, it is walking distance

4-Aug      day 3 - Lhasa/
Ganden Monastery [4500m]
(60km, 2hrs drive)

5-Aug      day 4 –Ganden/
Hepu/ Yama Do, trekking 5-6 hours, 17km

6-Aug      day 5 -
 Yama Do / Tsotup Chu Valley / Chitul Gang, trekking 5-7hours,
10km

7-Aug      day 6 - Chitul
Gang/ Herders' Camps, trekking 5 hours, 14km

8-Aug      day 7 –Herders' Camps / Nyango / Samye Monastery[3550m] ,  5-6 hours trekking, 

9-Aug      day 8 - Samye
Monastery/ Yumbulakang Palace & Trandruk Monastery/ Tsedang /Lhasa [3500m]. (240km, 4hrs drive)

10-Aug    day 9 – In Lhasa, today is
the first day of Shoton Festival, you will be arranged to see Big Thangka displaying
in the early morning at Drepung Monastery, and afternoon at Sera Monastery,
this ceremony shows that Shoton festival begins. Overnight at Lhasa.

11-Aug    day 10 -  Today
one more day in Lhasa
to feel and enjoy the activities of Shoton Festival. Morning you will be
arranged to see Tibet Opera at Summer Palace - Nobulingka, and Tibet Museum.
Afternoon free on your own. Overnight at Lhasa.

12-Aug    day 11 -
Lhasa / Nagchu (4500M,
338Km / 5 or 6 hours)
Drive to Nagchu, located on the famous North Tibetan
Plateau. The Northern highland in Tibet
is a vast Region Flanked by the great Kunlun
and Tanggula mountain ranges on the one side and the Gangdise Nyenchen Tanglha
mountain ranges on the other.  Overnight at local guest house or Tent
guest house. 

13-Aug    day 12 -
Nagchu Horse Racing
Festival / Namtso
Lake(4700M, 194KM, 4-5hours)
Today you will attend the Horse Racing Festival.
The festival, held in August, the best time of the year, is attended by tens of
thousands of herders coming on horseback from as far as hundreds of kilometers
away. Enjoy the various festival activities like horse / yak racing, dancing
shows, then drive to Namtso
Lake in the afternoon.
Overnight at local guest house or tent guest house.                               

14-Aug    day 13 –Namtso/ Reting[4230m] 156km, 6hrs.

In the morning, attend the festival and drive to Tashi Dor,
situated in the south-eastern corner of the Namtso, one of the three most holy
lakes in Tibet.
Namtso Lake with a surface area elevation of 4700m is revered as a holy lake. It is
both the highest and biggest salt water lake in the world. Afternoon drive to
Reting monastery, overnight at monastery guest house.

15-Aug    day 14 - Reting/ Tidrum
Nunnery/, enjoy the hot spring, overnight at local guesthouse;

16-Aug    day 15 – Early morning
driver to Drigung Ti Monastery, you may have the chance to see Sky burial if
the monks allow you. drive back to Lhasa
in the afternoon.

17-Aug    day 16 - Lhasa Airport
send off, fly to Chengdu,
half day Chengdu Panda Tour (tour on your own)

18-Aug    day 17- one day Giant Budda
tour in Leshan(tour on your own)

19-Aug    day 18 -FLY from Chengdu  10:30 AM 
to  MXP 18:20       (on your own or we can
arrange airport send off for you, USD12 per time)

Tour cost is
USD2656 for your private tour, USD1800 p,p based on 2 pax, USD1500 p.p based on
3 pax, USD1300 p.p based on 4 pax.

 Cost
Inclusions:

1. Accommodation:
guesthouse or camping;

2. Transportation by
private minivan or land cruiser;

3. Guide: local Tibetan
English speaking tour guide;

4. All entrance tickets;

5. All necessary Permit;

6. Yak and Yak man for
luggage during trekking(each person with 1 yak, and 4 yaks with 1 yak man);

7. airport pick up and
send off

Cost
Exclusions:

1. Flight tickets or
train tickets in and out Lhasa;

Note: We can offer you
the flight tickets or train tickets in and out Lhasa
from Chengdu, Beijing
or Xi'an.
Please check the latest price with us by email;

2. Trekking equipment (
Sleeping bag, tent and mattress);

Note: We can rent
trekking equipment for you, but please inform us before you take this tour.

3. Your own expense;

4. All meals, you need to
prepare your own trekking food, we can provide small stove just for boil water;

5. Personal cost for take
hot spring or ride horse

6. Tips for the guide and
driver.