4-Night Lhasa and Lake Yamdrok Explorer Tour

Meet your tour guide at the Lhasa airport. The airport shuttle bus leaves Lhasa Airport at 12:30pm and 4pm daily. Fixed Pickup Dates in 2019 (the date you arrive in Lhasa) Apr: 1,3,5,7,10,12,14,18,20,22,24,28 May:2,4,6,9,13,16,18,20,24,26,28,30 Jun: 1,4,7,10，12,14,16,22,24,28,30 Jul: 4,10,14,18,22,26,30 Aug: 1,5,9,12,17,20,24,28 Sep: 1,3,5,7,10,13,15,18,20,23,26,28,30 Oct: 2,4,7,10,12,15,18,24,28,30 Nov: 3,7,11,18,22,27 Dec: 2,6,13,20,25,30

Pickup from your hotel lobby around 8am to start your Lhasa city tour. You'll visit the UNESCO-listed Potala Palace, a focal point for Tibetan Buddhism and home to the Dalai Lama for many centuries, You'll also explore the 1300-year-old Jokhang Temple with its sacred golden Buddha, the spiritual epicenter of Tibetan Buddhism. Free time on Barkhor Street.

Today's tour includes two of the “great three” Gelug sect monasteries: Drepung Monastery and Sera Monastery. Drepung is the largest Tibetan Buddhist monastery, founded in the fifteenth century on a mountainside. Sera, not far from Lhasa, was famous for its debates.

Visit Lake Yamdrok, a lake hidden on high mountains. Gampala Pass You will pass over the Gampala pass (4790 m), you will have a glimpse of Yamdrok-tso Lake (4400m) . Yamdrok-tso Lake is the largest inland lake on the northern foot of Himalayas with a surface altitude of 4,441 meters. Yamdrok is reputed for its beautiful and charming scenery of pure lake, snow mountains, islands, vast pastures.

The airport shuttle bus leaves at 7:30am and 11am from downtown Lhasa. You'll be picked up from your hotel lobby and transferred to the airport. Actual pickup time will be informed by your tour guide.