Tibet Group Tour: One-Day Yamdrok Lake Karola Glacier Sightseeing

To be picked up from your hotel lobby between 7:40 am and 8:00 am

Our Tibetan tour guide and driver will meet you at your own hotel between 7:30 am and 8:00 am. The exact time of meeting is to be reconfirmed one day in advance. Clients need to confirm the personal hotel name, hotel room number, hotel address with contact phone number. 

You need to prepare for leaving for the trip around 7:20am. Be sure to be on time, because in your group, someone may take an afternoon flight around 4 pm out of Tibet.

On the way to Lake Yamdrok

We are going to drive around 140 km to get to Lake Yamdrok. The road from Lhasa to the airport tunnel is well paved and it takes about one hour at most. We extend the way to the west of Lhasa by driving over the Lhasang Gonggar Airport highway, wind up the mountain roads and cross the lofty Gampala pass(4750m) through numbers of switch backs and surmount the pass with heaps of prayer flags flapping in the breeze. From ridge, it offers a stunning view of the sprawling Yamdrok lake down in the valley and snowcapped mountains in the horizon. Winding down from the pass toward the lake shore of Yamdrok lake and continues enjoy the unforgettable vista of its pincer-shaped expanse of turquoise water. Yamdrok lake is one of the holiest lake in Tibet. It is revered as a talisman, supporting the life-spirit of the Tibetan nation. It is said that should its water dry Tibet will no longer be habitable. It holds a great value among Tibetans and Tibetans offer prayer flags and makes pilgrimage to the lake.

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Yamdrok Lake, also called Yamdrok Yumtso, is a lake with two long arms of water, making it look like a scorpion from the sky. This shape means you can never see its shape from around it. From Gyantse, you can see one arm, and follow it until it disappears around a bend in the shore which makes it difficult to estimate the size of the lake.

We will drive to Langkartse county and have lunch in local restaurant

After sightseeing we are gonna drive to Langkartse county where we will have lunch. It takes around 2 hours and we enjoy our meal and relax well before heading to Karola Glacier sightseeing.

Visit Karola Glacier-Nojin Kangsang Glacier

We are going to visit Karola Glacier for around 1 hour in a leisured way. Mt.Noijin Kangsang (7206m / 23641ft) is the closest major Himalayan peak to Lhasa the capital of Tibet. Name of the peak is known with many variations in different books and maps such as Nojinkangsang.

Drive back to your hotel around 7:40 pm, tour ends

It takes around 3 to 4 and half hours to drive back to your hotel in Lhasa. For those travelers who fly out of Lhasa today by an afternoon flight which is no earlier than 4:30pm, we can transfer to airport at 3:30 pm. If you want to get off the tour bus nearby the downtown Barkhor streets where you may want to walk little bit or have meals in a good restaurants, our guide and driver can drop off here and also send the rest people to their hotel before 7:30 pm