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Independent Tibet Tours

If you don't feel like travelling through China first, then your best option is to travel to Tibet via Chengdu. Below you'll find a summary of our Tibet tours starting in Chengdu. Our Tibet tours are bite-sized Tibet adventures lasting 2 to 10 days. By stringing them together, you can create your own independent Travel Plan.

We'll get your Tibet tour off to a relaxed start in Lhasa by arranging your airport transfer and hotel accommodation for the first 3 nights. You'll really need this time to acclimatise to the the altitude. Just let us know by using our quote request form which modules you're interested in along with your preferred travel dates, and our friendly Tibet specialists will create a customised quote for you.  

Many travellers combine a trip to Tibet with China and/or Nepal. For more about information contact our travel specialists. Our travel specialists have plenty of experience and look forward to helping you plan your trip. You can also send us an email at info@chinatravelplan.co.uk or give us a call at 01273 322048.

Prices below are per person, based on 2 or more travellers and are valid until December 31st, 2010.

Tibet starter pack Prayer flags in the wind

Duration: 4 days/ 3 nights
Price: From £194 per person - based on 2 people sharing
Departs: Daily

Start off your Tibet adventure tour in one of the world's most religious cities: Lhasa. After you arrive at the airport you’ll drive to highest altitude capital in the world. We’ve made sure that this Tibet adventure tour will give you enough time for your body to acclimatize to the altitude. Short walks to the Jokhang temple and its Barkhor route or to the market place can be done independently. On the third day of this Tibet adventure tour, a driver and guide will take you to the Dalai Lama’s Potala Palace and you’ll visit several important Tibetan monasteries in the area just outside of Lhasa.

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Tibet tour Straight through the Himalayas

Duration: 10 days/ 9 nights
Price: From £728 per person - based on 2 people sharing
Departs: Set dates from April through October
Route: Lhasa - Gyantse - Shigatse - Sakya - Rombuk - Lao Tingri - Zhang Mu Kodari

Travel by land from Lhasa to Kathmandu across the Friendship Highway; a classic route straight through the Himalayas. This 10-day trip will take across high-altitude mountain passes and to mysterious monasteries in a small group. You'll travel by Jeep across the Tibetan countryside beneath deep-azure blue skies with a backdrop of the ever-present Himalayas. Half-way through the trip you'll reach the world's tallest mountain: Everest. Then you'll take mountain passes and roads - cut from rock in the ravines - and slowly descend to the Tibetan border with Nepal.

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Tibet tour On top of the world

Duration: 4 days/ 3 nights
Price:

From £546 per person - based on 2 people sharing

Departs: Daily
Route: Lhasa - Samye - Gyantse - Shigatse - Lhasa

This module will take you on a breathtaking adventure amidst the world's highest mountain peaks. You’ll travel straight through Tibet by Jeep Land cruiser or minibus and you’ll visit the country's most religious Buddhist monasteries. The sound of mantras chanted by kneeling monks - ‘Om Mane Padme Hum’ for instance - and the scent of yak butter tea will linger for days. The air here is so thin that you won’t know if the cloudless blue skies, green mountain lakes and golden temples are real or just a figment of your imagination. 

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Tibet adventure tours - Join one of our Mount Everest tours

Tibet tour Mount Everest jeep trek

Duration: 5 days/ 4 nights
Price: From £838 per person - based on 2 people sharing
Departs: Daily
Route: Lhasa - Gyantse - Sakya - Rombuk - Everest Base Camp - Shigatse - Lhasa

Everest, the world's tallest mountain. Seeing it is a once in a lifetime experience. Our 5-day jeep trek will take you from Lhasa to Everest base camp . Although you may not be climbing Everest, you'll still have quite an adventure since you'll be travelling at extreme heights. You’ll travel across mountain passes above 5000m, enduring long days in thin air with bad roads and sleeping arrangements that are quite basic. However, this is probably one of the most memorable lifetime experience you can have…… One your unlikely to foget for a very long time.

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Tibet tour Tibet's Heavenly Lake... Namtso

Duration: 2 days/ 1 night
Price: From £169 per person - based on 2 people sharing
Departs: Daily from Shigatse
Route: Shigatse- Namtso - Lhasa

The name ‘Namtso’ means ‘heavenly’ and located at an altitude of 4730m, this lake is almost truly located in heaven. Nomadic Tibetans live out here and they walk along the pilgrim’s trail across the Changtang plateau. Along the way they sleep in meditation caves. In just one day you’ll travel across the plateau by Jeep (with a driver and a guide) from Shigatse to the lake and you’ll spend the night camped out on the shores of the lake. Sunrises and sunsets at the lake are simply magical!

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