17 days Sichuan – Tibet Landscape Adventure

Chengdu Arrival

Welcome to 
Chengdu
, a well-known city in Sichuan Province. Upon your arrival, our tour guide and driver will meet you at the exit of the airport/train station and escort you to your hotel. After lunch, visit the 
People’s Park
, which is the perfect way to observe the locals playing cards and ear-cleaning service. The Tea-house with endless refills. You are walking around 
Kuanzhai Alley
, which

Chengdu – Dujiangyan – Wolong – Siguniang Mountain (221 kms)

Morning get up early to drive to Dujiangyan (40 minutes). Get into the 
Dujiangyan Irrigation System
, walking across a bridge, and climb up the hill to see Taoist temples on the mountain. Then continue driving to 
Wolong Giant Panda Natural Reserve
, situated in Weichuan county, Aba Tibet, and Qiang autonomous prefecture. It is 134 km away from Chengdu and neighbors city of Dujiangyan. Afterward,

Siguniang Montain – Danba (110 kms)

Get up early to enjoy the beautiful scenery of 
Siguniang Mountain
 and visit the Shuangqiao. After visiting, visit 
Jiaju Tibetan Residences
. More than one hundred buildings keep the same architectural style with a complete and unique character of 
Gyarong (Jiarong) Tibetan residences
. Under the blue sky, Tibetan residences decorated in red, white, and black are strewed at random but also in or

Danba – Bamei – Tagong (117 kms)

Morning you will pay a visit to 
Suopo Watchtowers
. The watchtowers built with clay and stone are solid lofty columns with four, six, or even thirteen margins on the cross-section. These towers, with a height ranging from 100 to 200 feet (30 to 60 meters), have been established for more than a thousand years. Initially, they were used for exorcising demons. Later on, some were used to defend vill

Tagong-Luhuo-Garze (272 kms)

Morning enjoys the magnificent view of
Golden Mountain
sunrise of the Mount Zhara Lhatse. After the delighted buffet, we will drive to Garze. Upon arrival, visit the
Han-Chinese Monastery
, which is a symbol of the integration of Chinese and Tibetan architecture, the combination of Chinese and Tibetan culture, and the unity of Chinese and Tibetan. The temple was built in 1274 AD and had a histo

Full-Day Adventure of Garze

In the morning, we will visit
Garze Monastery
; it has activities lasting for 20-30 minutes. Then we will drive to
Yaqing Templ
e, located on wetlands, surrounded by snow-capped mountains (on Chuanxi Plateau), at an elevation of more than 3,800 meters. The temple is different from other Tibetan Buddhist temples, where most of the Buddhists are lama (Tibetan Buddhist monks), as nearly half of the

Garze-Dege (187 kms)

Garze is a beautiful city sitting in a basin surrounded by beautiful snow mountains. The snow peaks are Gods protecting this sacred land. And the
Shwedagon monastery
of Garz is well known because of the true friendship between Living Buddha Goeda and Red Army General Mr. Zhude.

Today your destination is Dege, the most critical Buddhism base of Tibetan Lamaism. Many of Buddhism Sections found

Dege – Baiyu (100 kms)

Morning we will visit
Dege Printing House
(Dege Yinjingyuan), Gonchen monastery. The Dege Printing House, a culture treasure-house in the world, topping the three biggest Printing houses, the Key Cultural Relic under State-level Protection. The grand and solemn Painting House represents the distinct Tibetan temple building characteristic. Drive to Baiyu county and visit
Baiyu Temple
; see the p

Baiyu – Batang

We will drive to the
Batang
, which located in the bank of Jinshajiang River. Batang is a well-known supplier of good fruit in eastern Tibet. It was said that the apple had been planted by a foreign preacher firstly. And the Christian churches here are still well protected now. Home visits to
Kangba Tibetan villages
around Batang, taste ghee tea and have the opportunity to learn about Batang Xi

Batang – Mangkang – Zuogong (259 kms)

Today we will drive to
Zuogong County
via
Mangkang County
. Afterwards, you cross two high passes in this section of the drive, one at around 3,900 m(12,795 ft), the other is Dongdashan Mountain Pass at 5,008 m(16,430 ft). Driving past local Tibetan houses scattered around the feet of snow-capped peaks, the expressions on innocent Tibetan girls would make you realize that you are one of the fir

Zuogong – Bangda – Basu -Ranwu (292 kms)

You will drive along the deep valleys of the Nu River (the Salween River), which is a long and tough journey, but your destination, the Ranwu Lake, is another Shangri-la, stay in the tent beside the Lake.

Drive 35KM to the old 
Zuogong
, then drive along the Yuqu River to Kuatiantuo Bridge, continue the driving along Yuqu River to 
Bangda Grassland,
 and Yelashan Mountain(业拉山）at 4828M. Cross the

Ranwu – Bomi – Lulang (305 kms)

A drive of 305km would take us about 5 hours to Bomi. You will wander along the Poto-chu Valley at Tramog (2,743 m/8999 ft), located deep in the thickly forested gorge of Parlung Tsangpo with glacial waterfalls streaming from the mountainsides.

And visit 
Midui Glacier,
 located at Yupu Town, Bome County in Nyingchi, a typical maritime glacier in Tibet as well as the lowest glacier in the worl

lulang – Basongtso

Drive across 
Serkhyem La Pass
 (4,515 m/14813 ft), the last major pass before reaching Lhasa. You will have spectacular views of 
Mount Gyala Pelri
 (7,150 m/23458 ft) and 
Mount Namchak Barwa
 (7,756 m/25446 ft). On the way to Nyingchi, you pass through Niyang River, one of the branch river of the Brahmaputra river, the local people, see it a mother river for Kongpo rigion. Drive to Basongtso fo

Basongtso – Lhasa

Drive across 
Serkhyem La Pass
 (4,515 m/14813 ft), the last major pass before reaching Lhasa. You will have spectacular views of 
Mount Gyala Pelri
 (7,150 m/23458 ft) and 
Mount Namchak Barwa
 (7,756 m/25446 ft). On the way to Nyingchi, you pass through Niyang River, one of the branch river of the Brahmaputra river, the local people, see it a mother river for Kongpo rigion. Drive to Basongtso fo

Lhasa Exploration

In Lhasa, you will find religion blended into every aspect of life – the city is the spiritual anchor of Tibet. 

Today we will visit the highest palace in the world – 
Potala Palace
,
 which is the Dalai Lama’s winter palace. It locates on the red hill, a good viewing point in Lhasa. In the afternoon, we will visit the renowned 
Jokhang Temple
,
 which will provide us one of your first sights of