Kailash Tour

Upon arrival in Kathmandu, Tribhuvan International Airport, we will pick you up with a private car transfer to your hotel in Thamel. In the evening, the group meets up and introduces entire members.

After breakfast or before, leave early in the morning for Pashupatinath Temple for puza. You will perform a special puja called “Rudrabhisekh”, which includes bathing the Shiva Lingam with Panchamrit, which consists of Milk, Curd, Honey, Sugar, Ghee, and Lighting Diyo at the holy Hindu shrine.

Likewise, Pashupatinath temple is a holy shrine of Hindus where the cremation takes place at the holy river Bagmati. Especially after sunset every evening there is a special puja held – Arati. Hindu priests are singing and dance with fire lamps. Even these days the dead are rarely burned at the riverside, but in a new electric oven, still it is a place to be reminded that we all are going to die one day.

Take breakfast and visit the world heritage sites located nearby your hotel. Today’s heritage sites tour includes visiting Boudhanath Stupa, Swayambhunath stupa, and Kathmandu Durbar Square to see glorious temples and the divine Kumari shrine. Walk further to Asan tole to get to know about the oldest markets of Nepal on your walk back to your hotel.

After a super delicious breakfast, we catch a coach to Timure near Kerung on the Tibet border. It’s about 165 kilometers following Kathmandu – Trishuli Betrawoti – Dhunche and Shyaprubesi roads. Time is situated on the main entry immigration to Tibet for Kailash tours since Tatopani Barhabise is close due to road damage by heavy stone landslides in the earthquake in 2015. Stay overnight in a Hotel.

After the immigration formalities, we cross the friendship bridge between Nepal and China. It’s the first Tibetan town Kerung (Kyorung) which is 24 kilometers far from the bridge and roughly takes about two hours. Stay overnight in a Hotel and after refreshments, you can hike some heights to get better acclimatized.

As you did some hours hike yesterday, it helps you today to adapt even at a higher altitude. Around midday, we drive to Saga for better accommodation. Likewise, you can hike also for some hours to sleep better in a lower elevation. Compared to Kerung, Saga stays with better accommodation for your stay.

Today, there is not any fixed plan that you have to do but it would be better for you if you could walk for some hours for acclimatization. In this way, you will have easier adapt to the climate and the chances of altitude mountain sickness is lower.

Drive starts quite early morning after your breakfast because its a long drive from Saga to Manasarovar lake distance is 478 kilometers. It is an important day for pilgrimage travelers. The first view of Mount Kailash is seen from Lake Mansarovar. Basically, the Kailash mountain and the iceberg lake are visible from Horchu en route. We go on the Mansarovar Kora tour and drive to the guest house where we stay overnight.

You will have enough time to explore Lake Manasarovar and its surroundings but we have Puja and Havan in the morning. It is only an hour to drive to get to Darchen and we will do it only after Lunch. Darchen is the base camp of Mount Kailash from where we start our Kailash Parikrama. We prepare well to hike Kora and stay overnight.

For the first part of the tour, we drive about 7 kilometers through the valley of GOD. Start the Kailash Parikrama, popular as a Kailash trek to touch the Kailash either walk or rent a personal horse and helper, you will meet here. It is about 18 kilometers of easy walking towards Derapuk, the North Face of Kailash. Our Kitchen team provides you light and warm dinner. Overnight at the guest house.

The second day of our Kailash trekking is a tough day of the entire journey. Start early in the morning, touch the Dolma La pass, and immediately seriously downhill to the basic tea house at the bottom of the hill and continue an easy walk to Juthulpuk. It is a trekking route entirely and takes about 10 hours in the total journey today to cover about 18 kilometers. We serve dinner and accommodation in the Juthulpuk guest house.

For the first part, we will have an easy walk for about 3 hours till Darchen and drive back to Saga via same way. It’s also popular as a Kailash circuit trekking in Tibet. You also can fill holy water at Lake Manasarovar on your return journey. However, it’s about 465 kilometers that we cover in 6/7 hours through the Chinese highway to reach Saga, at Saga hotel.

Drive across the Jilong via Saga same route as we ascend. Again short break in Saga and Brahmaputra river then continue to the Kerung border. Enter the Nepal border and drive an hour further downhill to Syapru Besi bazaar. The drive from Saga to the Kerung border is 230 kilometers and to Syapru besi is additional 20 kilometers that we have to cover this day. Final dinner in Tibet side cooked by our staff.

Early morning, we take a bus (private vehicle cost an extra) back to Kathmandu city through road as we took on our day 3. Transfer to your hotel in Thamel. You can do some last-minute shopping for souvenirs in Thamel for your family and relatives. In the evening join a typical Nepali dinner with the Gokyo Treks agency. Trip finish.