Trip Details

11 Days: Arrival at Lhasa airport to departure at Lhasa airport.

- 4 nights in comfortable hotels, 6 nights camping.

- All meals included.

Basic itinerary:

Day 1-3: Lhasa sightseeing.
Day 4: visit Ganden monastery and walk to camp.
Day 5-8: trekking from Hebu to Nyengo.
Day 9: visit Samye.
Day 10: Tsedang sightseeing.
Day 11: airport departure.

Price varies according to the level of service requested and number of persons in your group.
Please email us for a quote.

Equipment: we recommend you bring your own hiking shoes, cold-weather clothes, and sleeping bag; we supply the rest (sleeping mats, tents, kitchen equipment etc.). If needed, sleeping bags are available for rental; and cold-weather gear as well as sleeping bags are easily available for purchase in Lhasa.

Ganden to Samye trek

This is an excellent basic trek which combines important historical sites with a beautiful hike through high-altitude nomadic areas. The first days in Lhasa will give us time to sightsee and also to acclimatise before we visit the ridge-top complex of Ganden.

After exploring the monastic complex we will walk a couple easy hours to our pre-set camp site in the valley beyond. The next day our trek involves a steady climb over a pass to the high altitude pastures only used by nomads in the summer months. We continue in these highlands through gentle hills and past remote lakes before crossing another pass and dropping into the sheltered valley of Yamalung. Finally we turn into the wide Tsangpo (Brahmaputra) valley and its rolling sand dunes. A full day at Samye, Tibet’s first monastery, will give us time to recoup or to visit the active retreat cave-complex of Chimphu.

We meet our vehicles again and cross the Yarlung Tsangpo to stay a final night in the comforts of Tsedang, the cradle of Tibet’s early kings. The next day it is an easy one-hour transfer to the Lhasa airport.