12 Days Everest Base Camp & Central Tibet

Trip Facts:
Tour Code: BATE TIB06
Tour name: 12 days EBC & Central Tibet
Entry / Exit: Fly in / Drive out
Grade: Easy
Max Elevation: 5200m/17056ft
Accommodation: Hotel
Meal: Bed & breakfast
Transport: Flight & Private vehicle
Tour Days: 12
Total Days: 16

Highlights: 

• One hour Trans-Himalaya flight and breath taking aerial view of Everest and other highest peaks.
• Visit of Potala Palace, Sera Monastery, Drepung monastery, Jokhang.
• Pelkhor and Choden in Gyantse, Tashilumphu in Shigatse.
• Everest base camp.
• Luxury 4WD Land Cruiser.

Trip summary:

An opportunity to visit the base camp of Everest (5200m) with an experience across the Tibetan Plateau. True to its nickname, “the Roof of the world”, Tibet is more or less an untamed land of nomads (drokpas), monasteries, yaks, sand dunes, and high altitude desert that goes as far as the eyes can take it. On this Tibet overland tour you have 4 days  in Lhasa and other ancient cities Gyantse, Shigatse, Tingri visiting major Places, Monasteries, acclimatizing and to absorb the exoticism of Tibetan heritage and to explore this history-laden city to its core.

The tour begins with a comprehensive trip briefing in Kathmandu followed by a sensational trans Himalayan flight to Lhasa that passes over Mt. Everest and many highest peaks of the world (if you join the tour in Kathmandu). This is the only flight fly over Mt. Everest and other highest peaks. In case you wish to start the tour in Lhasa arriving from anywhere in mainland China or taking a new train from Beijing you will be briefed about the tour by your Tibetan Guide.

Upon your arrival in Lhasa, you will be taken on a sightseeing tour to Lhasa visiting major Palaces and monasteries. You leave Lhasa after 4 days by luxury 4WD Land Cruiser en-route you visit ancient town of Gyantse, Shigatse and many other cities. You get to explore colorful mosaic of Tibetan arts, crafts, history, culture, custom, tradition, lifestyle and cuisine and you become a witness to a host of indigenous cultures including untamed (drokpas) nomads en-route driving through highest Plate on Earth. Further drive across the wide open spaces of the Tibetan Plateau takes you to Everest base camp. You enjoy and adore  the magnificent view of Mt. Everest standing right front of you before you drive down towards trans-Himalaya across the Nepal border where BATE representative will receive and transfer you to Dhulikhel with all the modern amenities  spending a night before you enter the Kathmandu city.

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