Day 1 Depart Vancouver
The main group will depart Vancouver or any city in North America.

Day 2 Arrive Beijing : hotel
Arrive in Beijing airport- You have to take a taxi on your own from Beijing airport to our hotel in Beijing. You will be given the name and address of our hotel in Beijing. You will meet the tour group for the first on dinner table in the evening.

Day 3 Fly to Lhasa and Acclimatization : hotel
Arrival at Gangkar airport, then about two hours drive to arrive at Lhasa, which is situated at an elevation of 3650 meters.

Afternoon acclimating to the high plateau.

Day 4 Lhasa. Sightseeing : hotel
Sightseeing tour of one of Tibet's the most important monasteries, Drepung, which is beautifully placed on a mountain 12km.outside Lhasa.

After returning to the city for the lunch we will go to the Norbulingka, the former summer places of the Dalai Lama. Surrounded by lush green garden, it is a favorite place for Tibetan people to celebrate their festivals.

Day 5 Sightseeing : hotel
In the morning, visit the Potala Palace, one of the miracles in the world. This huge structure is the former home of the Dalai Lama.

In the afternoon, we visit the Jokhang Temple the most sacred and oldest temple in Tibet.

Day 6 Sightseeing : hotel
In the morning, exploring the small alleys in the old Tibetan part of Lhasa.

In the afternoon, We will visit Sera monastery, 5km outside Lhasa, where we can watch the Monks Debating.

Day 7 Lhasa to Ganden Monastery ( 52 km away from Lhasa ) : Camping
An hour's drive out of Lhasa will take us to Gandan Monastery. We'll visit the monastery and after lunch drive another hour to start our 3-hour hike. There will be yaks carrying our belongings and supplies( tents, food and essentials). We will set up camp at 3:30 to 4:00 p.m.

Day 8 Hiking to a plateau : Camping
Today's hike is about 6 hours. We will reach a plateau, where we will set up camp near a beautiful lake. This is the land of unspoiled beauty, with crystal clear water in the lake.

Day 10 Hiking to Nyango Village via Yemalung. Camping.
41/2 or 51/2 hours trekking from flat plain to Nyango village(3870 m) via Yamalung. Yamalung is a famous nunnery and if you desire, you can climb to the top of this hill to visit this nunnery.

Day 11 Hiking: from Nyango Village to SamYe Monastery. Stay at SamYe Monastery
The trek to Samye Monastery will take a total of 4 hours. Walking through a forest and a small village, the trail becomes increasingly barren as we approach the monastery.

We will visit SamYe Monastery

Day 12 Samye Monastery - Chimphu. Stay at SamYe Monastery
A more demanding excursion from Samye is the hike up to the Chimphu caves retreat, which takes 4 to 5 hours each way. Set in a thickly vegetated amphitheater to the east of the monastery, this retreat is a surprisingly lush mountain oasis of birds, flowers, and tumbling creeks. Chimphu is also an important pilgrimage site, for this is where Guru Rimpoche meditated and taught his disciples when he came to Samye in the eighth century. Of the several routes leading here from Samye, one of the more direct ways skirts the left (north) end of Haypo Ri to enter an adjacent desert valley lying to the east. A cart track turns left (north) across the desert plain of this valley, leading into the hills toward Chimphu. In one hour and a half, the track ends at a ghost town of ruined buildings. A trail continues up the valley from here, passing abandoned crop terraces and another ruined village before ascending into the tangle of wild rosebushes and shrubs that engulfs Chimphu.

Day 13 Hiking : Depart SamYe early in the morning by car to TseTang.
Stay in hotel of TseTang

Day 14 Go to airport for departure to Beijing : hotel
In the morning we may have just enough time to visit the First Palace in Tibet

It already the end of our tour and in the afternoon we will be transferred to Gangkar airport to catch the flight to Beijing.

Day 15 Depart China from Beijing airport
While in Beijing, in the morning you just have enogh time to do some shopping.
We will be transfered to the Beijing airport and fly home.