French Family Tibet Highlight Travel April 2014 Review
Travelers' Name: XAVIER FLAVIANO, JADE LAM FLAVIANO, PAULINE GARANCE FLAVIANO, JEAN FLAVIANO and Joe Lam
(see handwriten Tibet Highlights tour review)
Nationality: French and China Hongkong
Tibet Travel Period: April12-22, 2014
Tibet Tour Itinerary: 10 days Famous Tibet cultural and adventure discovery (tour outline as below)
April12 Day1 fly from HK to Chengdu, to be picked up (by driver and van, no tour) to downtown Chengdu
April13 Day2 fly to Lhasa, rest for altitude
April14 Day3 (B) Highlight Sightseeing tour in Lhasa: Potala Palace, Jokhang Temple, Barkhor Streets, Sera Monastery
April15 Day4 (B) Lhasa-Drak Yerpa Hermitage cave monastery-Taktse county- (Tibetan village view—take a Tibetan family-Ganden Monastery-Lhasa
April16 Day5 (B) Lhasa-Namtso Lake-Lhasa (highlight landscape trip covering about 500 km)
April17 Day6 (B) Lhasa-Lake Yamdrok Tso-Karola Glacier-Gyantse (Pelkhor Monastery and Kumbum Pagoda)-Shigatse city
April18 Day7 (B) Shigatse (Tashilumpo Monastery)-local Tibetan streets-Shegar town-Old Tingri, o/n in Amdo hotel
April19 Day8 (B) Old Tingri-Rongphu monastery (100 km rough road)-(trek about 8 km to visit Everest in Everest base camp, if you do not want to trek this distance, you can take the local environmental vehicle to base camp) back to Rongphu monastery, o/n in guesthouse nearby
April20 Day9 (B) Everest-Shigatse, o/n in Shigatse Manasarovar hotel
April21 Day10 (B) Shigatse-Lhasa
April22 Day11 (B) hotel to airport transfer, leave Lhasa for Chengdu by MU5474 12:50-2:40pm