5 Days Tibet Hot Spring Tour

Detailed Itinerary of the 5 Days Tibet Hot Spring Tour

Day 1: Arrival Upon Lhasa

Highlights:  Arrival & Pick-up & Acclimatization

Arrival & Pick up & Acclimatization	Arrival & Pick up & Acclimatization

Schedule today: Arrival at Lhasa at airport or train station in the afternoon, our guide and driver will pick you up and transfer you to hotel for acclimatization; You can hang out freely at this holy city to get the first impression of Tibet 

Day 2: Lhasa City Tour  

Highlights: Potala Palace, Jokhang Temple, Barkhor Street

Schedule today: In the morning, visit the landmark of Lhasa - Potala Palace, the successive Dalai Lama’s winter residence. In the afternoon, visit the center of Tibetan Buddhism - Jokhang Temple, where you will see lots of devoted pilgrimages coming from every corner of Tibet. Both sites are under the list of the world cultural heritages by the UNISCO. Afterwards, free time for you to wander through the Barkhor Street, the busiest street in old Lhasa quarter. 

Potala Palace	Jokhang Temple

Day 3: Lhasa City Tour

Highlights: Drepung Monastery, Sera Monastery

Schedule today: In the morning, we will visit Drepung Monastery which is the biggest Tibetan Buddhism College with the biggest number of monks in Tibet. The monastery used to be the winter residence of the Dalai Lama before the 5th Dalai Lama moved his residency to the Potala Palace. And in the afternoon, we will visit another influential Gelugpa Monastery - Sera Monastery, where you can see the largest scale of sutra debating among monks is famous all across Tibet.

Sera Monastery	Drepung Monastery

Sera Monastery                                    Drepung Monastery

Day 4: Lhasa - Turpu Monastery - Yangpachen hot spring - Lhasa

Highlights: Turpu Monastery, Yangpachen hot spring

Schedule today: After breakfast at Lhasa hotel, we drive towards to the Turpu Monastery that is about 60km far away from Lhasa. The monastery is built in 1187, located in Ngagar Township, Doilungdeqen County to west of Lhasa. It’s the first monastery of the Gagyu Sect of Tibetan Buddhism and the main monastery of the Black Cap Group of the Garma Sect. Turpu Monastery sits at the foot of Baima Qoinzong Mountain, and there are mediation cells on the peaks flanking the monastery. 

Then continue to Yangpachen and visit hot spring, you can enjoy a bath at the hot spring.

Turpu Monastery	Yangpachen hot spring

Day 5: Leave Lhasa

Schedule today: Tour ends, our guide and driver will drop you off at airport or train station in Lhasa. Welcome to Tibet next time.