Day 1 Arrival by train or air, transfer to Lhasa, check in hotel, rest for acclimatization
Upon your arrival at Lhasa Gonggar Airport or Lhasa Newwu Train Station, your Tibetan local guide and driver will pick you up with your name sign, and then they will transfer you to Lhasa city safely. Please be not so anxious to walk much around hotel to see this that, but you do need a good rest in your hotel for needed acclimatization, otherwise you maybe under the weather little bit and easy get mountain sickness. Accommodation: 3 stars standard and centrally located hotel (or any kinds of accommodations as per your idea)

Day 4 Lhasa-Damxung County-Lake Nam-Tso-Lhasa (500 km roundtrip)  
To experience the natural views of Tibet is a dream of many tourists. This one day roundtrip tour will offer you great opportunity to see the real Tibet. You will see the great mountains, huge grasslands, local nomads, sheep, yaks, goats, horses, most importantly, you will feel the pure huge Lake-Nam-Tso, which is 4718m high. It is the second-largest saltwater lake in China, the first being Koko Nor (Qinghai-Lake) in Qinghai province. More and more people want to visit this holy lake. In clear weather the water is a miraculous shade of turquoise and there are magnificent views of the nearby mountains. The wide open spaces, dotted with the tents of local drokpas (Nomads) are intoxicating. On the way back to Lhasa, we can stop in Yangpachen Hot spring where we can enjoy the Hot sping service on our own if we want.

Day05 Lhasa-Shigatse city[3900m], the 2nd largest city in Tibet 
Around 8:30 am, we will leave Lhasa for Shigatse which is the second largest city of Tibet. We are going to spend around 3-4 hours driving smoothly along this well paved China-Nepal Highway (Lhasa-Shigatse section, 280km). Today we will give visit to Tashilhunpo Monastery and Shigatse local free market.

Accommodation will be: Shigatse Manasarover Hotel or similar nice one (Tibetan style) if late booking due to hotel tight resource especially during high season or festival time.

Day 06 Drive Shigatse-Rongphu Monastery[5180m], o/n in local guesthouse best available
After early breakfast in Shigatse, we will drive onward to Rongphu Monastery, near Everest Base Camp. It is 350 km touch drive, but our guide and driver will take good care of you along this high altitude road, you have lots of chances to stop wherever to shoot pictures of mountains, rivers, all the landscape is tremendous.

Day 07 Rongbuk-EBC-Shigatse   
we get up early for Everest sunrize pictures in Rongphu and trek 8 km or take horse carriages to Everest Base Camp, have close visit to Mt. Everest,in the middle afternoon (around 3-4 pm, we drive back to Shigatse city where we can have better hotel accommodation. o/n in hotel.

Day 08 Shigatse-Gyantse-Lake Yamdrok Tso-Lhasa  
After early breakfasts in this second largest city, we take an easy drive of 90 km for Gyangtse where will visit Pelkhor Choed Monastery and Kumbum Pagoda, after lunch in this town, we will drive along the southern Lhasa-Shigatse natural view routing to visit the Lake of Yamdrok Tso. Around 6 pm, we will get back to Lhasa. o/n in hotel.

Day 09 depart Tibet for next destination  
Your private Tibetan driver and the guide will see you off to airport or train station, your Tibet tour with Tibet CTrip ends (if you need additional tour services in Nepal or China, we would be more than happy to organize as well). And hopefully your Tibet holiday leaves you long memory in your whole life.

The service and price details will be sent to you soon after your inqury. Click here, you can take a quick look at some pictures of the sites some of which are taken by our distinguished clients.