Lhasa sightseeing tour

Lhasa sightseeing tour

Lhasa sightseeing tour is designed for those people who have a short time frame and interest to visit Lhasa city. Asian Hiking Team project is a flight to/from Lhasa then full days sightseeing around.  

Lhasa was designed to prominence as an administrative centre in the 7th century, when Songtsen Gampo moved his capital there and built a palace on the site now occupied by the Potala. The temples of Ramoche and the Jokhang were also established at this time to house the Buddha images brought as dowries by Songtsen Gampo’s Nepalese and Chinese wives.

As the lake was filled to create the site for the Jokhang, the town was known as Rasa, ‘place of the goat’. Following the consecration of the Jokhang and the installation of the Jowo Shakyamuni image, the name was changed to Lhasa, ‘place of the deity’. The rule of the Yarlung kings from their new capital lasted some 250 years, but Buddhism did not really take hold until the rule of Trisong Detsen (755-97) when Same was established. Following the breakup of the Lhasa regime, the city became peripheral to Tibetan history until Dalai Lama V (1617-82) defeated the Shigatse Tsang kings (with Mongol support).

The Potala towers over Lhasa and is an enduring landmark of Tibet. Little remains of the original structure built by Songtsen Gampo apart from its foundations. After Lhasa was reinstated as the capital of Tibet in the 17th century the Great 5th Dalai Lama began construction of the White Palace (built 1645-53) employing 7000 workers and 1500 artisans. It functioned as the traditional seat of the Tibetan government and the winter residence of the Dalai Lamas.

The Red Palace is attributed to the regent Desi Sangye Gyatso and was completed in 1693. Dalai Lama V died in 1682, his death concealed by the regent, enabling completion of the construction without the distraction of political upheaval. Within this palace are numerous outstanding temples and the reliquary tombs of eight past Dalai Lamas. Altogether, the palace is 13 storeys (among the world’s tallest buildings until the 20th century skyscraper) and contains approximately 200,000 images in 1,000 rooms.

Asian Hiking Team organizes the short Lhasa Sightseeing tour starting from Kathmandu flight to Lhasa and two days exploring Lhasa city and flight back to Kathmandu who have a short time frame.

Day by day itinerary (3 nights, 4 days)

Day 01: Flight to Lhasa - Arrive in Lhasa.

Day 02: Sightseeing in Lhasa.

Day 03: Sightseeing in Lhasa.

Day 04: Fly to Kathmandu.

Optional Tour 5 Days:

Day 01:- Kathmandu (1,300m) – Lhasa (3,650m).

Day 02-03:- In Lhasa: Two Full Days Sightseeing Tour In Lhasa.

Day 04:-Lhasa – Ganden Monastery-Lhasa 120km.

Day 05:- Lhasa to Kathmandu or China.

Optional Tour 6 Days:

Day 01: Arrival in Lhasa.

Day 02: Sightseeing tour in Lhasa city.

Day 03: Sightseeing tour in Lhasa city.

Day 04: Lhasa to Tsedang Via Samye Monastery (3520m) 120km.

Day 05: Sightseeing tour in Tsedang.

Day 06: Departure.