Lhasa Kathmandu Bicycle Tour

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The Lhasa to Kathmandu cycling visit is a daring cross-country trekking visit, and if you are an energetic cyclist, it is an absolute necessity for you. This Lhasa to Kathmandu cycling visit isn’t just courageous, yet it additionally gives a chance to investigate the path, remarkable scenes, levels, lakes, and cloisters exhaustively. Likewise, the Lhasa to Kathmandu cycling visit takes us toward the northern Mt. Everest headquarters, quite possibly the most well-known vacation destination on the planet.

Cycling from Lhasa to Kathmandu, traversing the Tibetan level’s huge field, is an incredible excursion and one that many cycling enthusiasts pursue. As one of the hardest cycling troubles on earth, this high-tallness course from Lhasa in Tibet to Kathmandu in Nepal takes you across High Mountain passes, through rich stream valleys, and across immense ranges of meadows as you ride across the highest point of the world. Before you hit the road, check our authoritative manual for Lhasa to Kathmandu cycling visit.

The Lhasa to Kathmandu bicycle visit is well known among sightseers and a preferred choice of riders in Tibet. You want to get adjusted to high height in Lhasa for two days, where you can visit Potala castle, Jokhang sanctuary, Drepung religious community, Sera cloister, and other renowned cloisters and royal residences.

Then, at that point, set up your riding types of gear and ride to Shigatse using Yamdrok Lake and old Gyantse. In the wake of visiting the Tashilhunpo religious community, the home of Panchen Lama, you will ride southwards along Friendship Highway and show up in Mt. Everest-the most elevated top on the planet using Lhatse and Tingri. You can see the value in the nightfall and wonderful night sky of Mt. Everest.

Subsequently, keep on riding southwards and view Mt. shisha Panama with an elevation of 8012 meters en route. At long last, you will show up in Gyirong town and pass the line span Friendship span. The visit closes in Kathmandu.

Taking everything into account, this visit contains antiquated cloisters, little towns, hallowed lakes, old urban communities, stupendous ice sheets, constant snow-covered mountains, immense grassland, excellent gorge, streaming streams, lavish timberlands, and other regular and social scenes. It will undoubtedly be a huge bicycle visit.

Upon your landing in Tribhuvan International Airport, we will go through the entire following day touring the social Kathmandu Valley and planning for the cycling visit. This extreme cycling campaign starts after taking a trip to Gongar air terminal and two or three hours’ drive to Lhasa city.

Then, at that point, we will take a rest and tour around till the following day for appropriate acclimatization. Lhasa city shows the Sera Monastery, Norbulinka Palace, Jokhang Temple, and the well-known Barkhor Bazaar. The visit to the home of Dalai Lama, Potala Palace, Drepung religious community is similarly hypnotizing.

The trailblazing bicycle venture back to Kathmandu crosses significant passes while visiting the shocking cloister towns of Gyantse, Xigastse, and Xegar. We follow the 1000 kilometers of cycling trails from the top of the world, making the most noteworthy steep drop of 4600 meters on the planet.

Burning through the mud romping, smooth, soil we cross the Tibetan boundary and cycle along the Kodari, Dhulikhel, Bhaktapur, lastly, back to Kathmandu. Lhasa to Kathmandu cycling visit tests our actual cutoff points taking mountain trekking to the super level. Nonetheless, the landscape, visit, and generally speaking experience is fulfilling and advantageous.

These months guarantee the best time frame for experience trekking. We invite you to go along with one of our gatherings. Should you require more subtleties or wish basically to examine further in regards to any parts of this excursion arranging and courses of action or wish to ask about the Chinese/Tibet visa guidelines, then, at that point, if it’s not too much trouble, email us.

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ITINERARY

Day 1: Arrive at Tribhuwan International Airport (TIA) Kathmandu

The main day of our excursion starts by showing up in Kathmandu. Kathmandu is the capital city of Nepal. After you fly into Kathmandu, our staff will invite you. You will be taken to the lodging by our staff from Tribhuwan International Airport, who will be raising the notice with your name in it and drive you to the inn where you will remain for the evening. You can investigate the city all alone on the off chance that you think about it. If not, you should take a rest.
Day 2: Kathmandu Valley Sightseeing Tour

Today is the third day of this excursion. Today you will go touring in various legacies. To begin with, we will visit Boudhanath Stupa. The stupa is on the way from Tibet, entering the Kathmandu Valley by the Sankhu Village in the upper east corner and proceeds to the most out of date and seriously unassuming stupa of Chabahil named Charumati Stupa. Then, at that point, we visited Pashupatinath Temple. The Pashupatinath Temple is a notable and blessed Hindu asylum complex. In conclusion, we at last tour Swayambhunath. Swayambhunath Stupa is a severe old-fashioned complex on an incline in the Kathmandu Valley, west of Kathmandu city. The Tibetan name for the site connotes 'Incredible Trees' for the various arrangements of trees found on the incline.
Day 3: Fly to Gongar airport and drive to Lhasa (3660m)

Early morning move to the worldwide air terminal for the drawn-out trip to Gongar. On China Southwest Airlines, this shocking flight takes us directly across the Himalayan reach and gives us sublime mountain views. When arriving at Gongar Airport and meeting your Tibetan aide, it is a further 2-hour drive via Land Cruiser to Lhasa. It's prudent to rest and relax for the rest of the day because of Lhasa's height.
Day 4: Sightseeing Tour in Lhasa

Today, we visited a few of Lhasa's numerous cloisters in the organization of an aide and translator. One of these is the Sera Monastery, one of Tibet's most incredible protected religious communities; inside its whitewashed dividers and brilliant rooftops, a few hundred priests live and study. After lunch, we'll visit the Norbulingka, the mid-year royal residence of the Dalai Lama, just as the Jokhang Temple. This sanctuary is perhaps the holiest place in Tibet, and there is consistently a parade of faithful Tibetans through the complex. Encompassing the Jokhang is the Barkor – a labyrinth of restricted cobbled roads that is the focal market of Lhasa.
Day 5: Second-day sightseeing tour in Lhasa

In the first part of the day, we visit Potala Palace, which rules the city of Lhasa. It's a spectacular structure, containing private quarters of the Dalai Lama just as various terrific staterooms and numerous significant sanctuaries. There has been a Palace on this site. Since the fifth or sixth century, the current Palace was developed in the seventeenth century. After lunch, we visited the Drepung Monastery, established in the fourteenth century and was once the biggest on the planet, with around 10,000 priests. Nowadays, that figure is down to a few hundred, yet there is still much here of interest as it was left moderately sound during the Cultural Revolution.
Day 6: Start the Bike Tour 80 km

At last, your trans-Himalayan trekking experience starts. Our excursion towards Everest begins with the Friendship Highway as it takes off across the level. We pass on Lhasa and cycle along the Tsangpo River to the foot of the Kamba Pass (3700 m). When you show up at the camp, you will find tents, toilets, shower tents and offices prepared. We spend the time being at a risen camp.
Day 7: Kamba Pass 55 km

Our first mountain pass. A solid uphill move along a tarred street of a few curves arrives at the highest point extravagantly enhanced with petition banners (4794m). In the wake of slipping, we proceed close to Lake Yamdruk; at the furthest side, we set camp (4490m). Kambala or Khambala Pass is masterminded under 2 hours southwest of Lhasa, heading towards Gyantse at an ascent of 4794m. The pass on the contrary side is Gampa-la Pass that leads over the mountains of Yamdrok-Tso. Kambala Pass is one of the most delightful mountain passes in Tibet with the best perspectives around. Kambala or Khambala Pass is masterminded under 2 hours southwest of Lhasa, heading towards Gyantse at a stature of 4794m. The pass on the contrary side is Gampa-la Pass that leads over the mountains of Yamdrok-Tso. Kambala Pass is one of the most wonderful mountain passes in Tibet with the best perspectives around.
Day 8: Karo Pass base 54 km

Abandoning the lovely lake, we cycle along the Friendship expressway, which before long turns into a rock street, through a gorge and up to the foot of the Karo Pass (4750m), where our rose town will be ready for the evening. Proceeding west along with the Tibetan level, you go to a considerably higher Karo La Pass (La signifies "pass" in Tibetan). Well over 16,000 feet, this pass is nearly 1000 feet higher than the most noteworthy mountain in the mainland U.S. Also, this is only the pass, the absolute bottom! Surrounding you is a shocking mountain landscape of the Karo La glacial mass overhanging above you and the valley in front. A stupa remains at the foundation of the ice sheet, and brilliant petition banners cover the pass. Another shocking blue lake lies only a few kilometers along the street.
Day 9: Karo Pass to Gyantse

A critical day on the visit, as we need to start ahead of schedule to climb the high Karo Pass (5010m). Around us, we can see icy masses extending down to 6000m and wonderful lakes. You are compensated for your work with a night in a lodging. Gyantse was generally viewed as the third biggest and most noticeable town in Tibet (after Lhasa and Shigatse). However, there are currently somewhere around ten bigger Tibetan urban areas. The town is deliberately situated in the Nyang Chu valley on the antiquated shipping lanes from the Chumbi Valley, Yatung, and Sikkim, which met here. From Gyantse, courses prompted Shigatse downstream and over the Kora La (Pass) to Central Tibet. The post (built-in 1390) protected the southern ways to deal with the Yarlung Tsangpo Valley and Lhasa. The town was encircled by a divider 3 km long.
Day 10: Shigatse 94 km

First, we will enjoy exploring the Gyantse Dzong, and then we will visit Gyantse Kumbum. The Dzong is a post dating from the fourteenth century and the Kumbum, a huge gold-domed stupa with a few little houses of prayer, containing a great assortment of Tibetan Buddhist paintings. We then, at that point, head out on the expressway towards Shigatse. Albeit today includes a more extended distance, the roadway is tarred and level. In the early evening, we will show up in Shigatse (3860m).
Day 11: Gyachung Monastery 75 km

We leave Shigatse and ride more than two little goes and through a few little Tibetan towns. After breakfast and touring, we will indeed take off and pedal towards Gyachung Monastery. The course to Gyachung expects us to pass through two little passes and across a few Tibetan towns. The scene en route is certainly charming until we arrive at the Gyachung Monastery, wherein we will remain for the time being. We will cycle past the separated Gyachung Monastery and camp. We will investigate the astounding religious community.
Day 12: Lhatse 95 km

After breakfast and a brief reprieve, we will be headed toward a 95-km ride to Lhatse. Here, we will crawl along the winding streets like minuscule specks of pioneers as we move along the incredible valleys towards Tso-La, which is 4520 meters above ocean level. There, we will have our lunch. After lunch, we head towards Lhatse, past the natural aquifers and camp around 10 km outside of town. We will pass the underground aquifers and camp at a spot 10-kilometers from the town of Lhatse.
Day 13: Shegar 75 km

Today we view the dazzling ravine of the 5220m Gyatso-La. On a sunny morning, you will be compensated for your work with your first perspective on Mount Everest. After a 40 km ride through level grassland towns, you will show up in the town of Pelbar, frequently alluded to as Shegar. Shegar is a well-known visit for anybody making a beeline for the Everest locale. Today will be a long and difficult ride through the ravine. Shegar (otherwise called New Tingri, however not to be mistaken for Old Tingri) is a modest community found 7 km northwest of Baber, effortlessly coming from the intersection in Baber. If you have the opportunity, it merits making a short side excursion to Shegar to look at the staggering vestiges of Shegar Dzong (Crystal Fort), incorporated into the side of a lofty mountain. The remaining parts of Shegar Dzong's guarded dividers snake up the close upward zenith that weaving machines the town.
Day 14: Pang Pass 67 km

Right outside of Shegar, we will redirect off the principal Lhasa-Kathmandu roadway and head towards the world's most noteworthy pinnacle, Everest. In the wake of going through the line control point, you will be confronted with 20 km's of uphill curves (42 hair clip twists altogether!) before you arrive at the culmination of the Pang Pass (5150m). Your award will probably be the superb perspectives on Everest and her encompassing pinnacles. Appreciate lunch as you look over Makalu (8463m), Shishapangma (8012m), Cho Oyu (8210m), Lhotse (8516m), Everest (8850m) and a few other amazing pinnacles. Then, at that point, a 20-kilometer downhill follows to the Rongbuk Valley (4200m).
Day 15: Rongbuk Monastery 35 km

Presently you ought to be at top wellness and excited for the methodology of Everest Base Camp. A rough street ends up through the Rongbuk valley until the magnificent Mount Everest shows up before you. We will camp next to the religious community with the remarkable sight of the 8848m top before your eyes. We will remain here for two days. On your subsequent day, you can either peruse a book or settle the score nearer to Everest by going for a stroll, cycling or bouncing on a jackass and truck ride to Everest headquarters, which is 8 km from the camping area.
Day 16: Tingri 86 km

It's currently an opportunity to leave Rongbuk and ride into the rough street. Ride into the street, from the point, select an easy route into the mountains to arrive at another rough path. Another uneven path takes us over a gorge and down into Tingri (4340m). Indeed, it's presently an opportunity to leave Rongbuk and ride into the uneven street. Another uneven path takes us over a gorge and down into Tingri (4340m). Tingri is a province in the south of the Tibet Autonomous Region. It is regularly utilized as a base by hikers getting ready to climb Mount Everest or Cho Oyu.
Day 17: Lalung Pass 77 km

This day starts with a 40 to 50 km level ride before lunch. Then, at that point, we tackle the steady slope of the Lalung Pass (4990m). From here, you will feel like you are pretty much as high as the tops around you, including Shishapangma (8012m). Convenience in the valley between two passes. Most likely, you will encounter just in Tibet that the 5,000-meter more responsible option pass is only a lonely spot on the abandoned plain. In case you are fortunate, it is an awesome perspective on the great eight-thousander Shisha Pangma from here.
Day 18: Cross Thang Pass, the ultimate downhill 117 km

This is the day when we will handle our absolute last difficulty as we go up towards the exceptional Thang Pass to 5050m. From that point, you will begin going downhill, partaking in the dazzling sights of the enthusiastic chain of the Himalayas. As you arrive at Nyalam town, you will begin seeing the plant life once more. Ride down past endless cascades and different pine trees line streets, towards the border town of Gyirong at 2300m. It would be your last day in Tibet.
Day 19: Back to Nepal 97 km

From Zhangmu, we need to go through customs and into Nepal. When you are in the Nepali town of Kodari, the declining proceeds for the following 50 km along some exceptionally uneven and rough streets. Abruptly it is tropical and muggy and green again as you cycle close by rice paddies. After you arrive at the town of Dolalghat, you should ascend to Dhulikhel. Dhulikhel is a region in the Kavrepalanchok District of Nepal. Two significant parkways B.P. Parkway and Arniko Highway go through Dhulikhel. Araniko Highway interfaces Kathmandu, Nepal's capital city, with Tibet's border town of Kodari. Dhulikhel is situated at the Eastern edge of Kathmandu Valley, south of the Himalayas, at 1550m above ocean level, and is 30 km southeast of Kathmandu and 74 km southwest of Kodari. The Majority of individuals in Dhulikhel are Newars, and Brahmin, Chhetri, Tamang, and Dalit are additionally living in the external space of the town. Savouring water Dhulikhel is the absolute best water in Nepal.
Day 20: Bhaktapur and Kathmandu 35 km

What a brilliant way of finishing this excursion – a major breakfast first thing in the morning and the terrific display of the Himalayas. You will freewheel down through Bhaktapur, where you can pause and see a portion of the town's well-known sanctuaries if you wish before we ride into occupied Kathmandu once more. In the early evening, you can unwind, shop or go touring.
Day 21: Transfer to Airport for home departure. B. "Farewell!"

Today we end our excursion. We praise our fruition of the trip. Assuming you need to appreciate and investigate the city stunningly better, then, at that point, this is the time. There are parcels, however inactive time yet trade messages with sidekicks and organize the photos. It is your last day in Kathmandu, and you ought to partake in your last day in the city.

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TRIP INFO

Overview:

Group Size: min-1 max-15
Best Season: Jan-may, sep-dec
Activities: Trekking and Tour
Transportation: car, plane
Starts From: Kathmandu
Ends In: Kathmandu

Trip Highlights:

The path, remarkable scenes, levels, lakes, and cloisters exhaustively.
Likewise, the Lhasa to Kathmandu cycling visit takes us toward the northern Mt. Everest headquarters, quite possibly the most well-known vacation destination on the planet.
Across High Mountain passes, through rich stream valleys, and across immense ranges of meadows as you ride across the highest point of the world.
You can see the value in the nightfall and wonderful night sky of Mt. Everest.
Lhasa city shows the Sera Monastery, Norbulinka Palace, Jokhang Temple, and the well-known Barkhor Bazaar.
Antiquated cloisters, little towns, hallowed lakes, old urban communities, stupendous ice sheets
Constant snow-covered mountains, immense grassland, excellent gorge
Streaming streams, lavish timberlands, and other regular and social scenes

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EQUIPMENT CHECKLIST

RECOMMENDED GEARS

Here are some necessary trekking apparatus that can be required for accomplishing your trek effortlessly. They are shortlisted below.

PERSONAL AND CLOTHING ITEMS

Accessories and Technical items

Binoculars
Camera
Diaries and Journal to write experiences in words
Books/GPS navigators
Credit cards/ATM cards
Umbrella (if it’s too hot or if it rains)

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