Days |
Day to day programs |
Day 1 |
Arrive Lhasa Gonggar Airport and transfer to hotel. |
Day 2-3 |
Visit Potala, Jokhang, Drepung, Sera and Norbulingka . |
Day 4 |
Optional excursion to Tsurphu or gandna monastery. |
Day 5 |
Drive to Gyantse via Yaandrog Lake and over night in utse hotel. |
Day 6 |
After sightseeing, drive to shigatse and visit Tashillumpu monastery. |
Day 7 |
Drive to shegar. |
Day 8 |
Drive to khartag village. Prepare yaks and camp. Khartang is awell populated valley with agood harvest of barley. At an elevation of 3750 meters, it has an almost ideal climate. The air is always warm but never hot. The sun shines bright and it never rains too heavily. |
Day 9 |
Trek from khartag to yueba, about 4-5 hours. Yueba sits on a small rise above the river; this is a picturesque valley with many village and good campsites. |
Day 10 |
Yueba to base camp of langma la, 6 hrs. |
Day 11 |
Base of langma la to cave . this is a difficult day. It crosses the steep, three-tiered langma la pass (5350 meters). From here we can view Mt. everest , chomo lunze and makalu. |
Day 12 |
Cave to pethang, 4 hrs. |
Day 13 |
To pethang ringmo - kashung faced base camp. |
Day 14 |
Return to pethang, 4 hrs. |
Day 15 |
Pethang to sharlung. It takes 5 hours. Situated next to an emerald lake, the hillsides abound in giant rhubarb plants during the summer months. |
Day 16 |
Sharlung to sharo, 4 hrs. Camp at the foot of shoal pass (5030 meters). The peaks off Makalu are directly opposite. |
Day 17 |
Sharo to yueba. It takes about 6 hrs, crossing the shoal pass (5030 meters) and back to yueba. |
Day 18 |
Yueba to khartag and drive to Everest base camp. |
Day 19 |
Day hike around the base camp. |
Day 20 |
Drive to Nyalam/ Zhangmu. Overnight in hotel/gust house. |
Day 21 |
Departure for Kathmandu. |
