Tibet Lhasa Tour Sightseeing: Jokhang Monastery

Jokhang Monastery

Jokhang Monastery is located in the center of the ancient city of Lhasa, Tibet.  Jokhang monastery was built in the seventh century by Songtsan Gambo. Its four-story main building demonstrates a combination  of Tibetan, Nepal, Indian, and Han architectural styles, as well as a Mandala world outlook of Buddhism. With the Hall of Amitayus Sutra as its center, the monastery symbolizes the nuclear of the universe.  The Hall of Sakyamuni is the essence of the monastery.

Front side of Jokhang Monastery

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What you need to honw for traveling in Tibet?

Mountain Sickness:
What the visitors to Tibet are concerned about is the mountain sickness. On highland, the air is thin and the air contains less oxygen. If the elevation increases quickly, you will find uncomfortable, such as taking airplane or buses to Tibet. With mountain sickness, you will feel headache, dizzy, heavy breathing, tired and insomnia.  Those with heart diseases or high blood pressure should be more careful.

Suggestions before you go to Tibet:

Get as fit and healthy as possible, both physically and psychologically. Visitors having record of heart, lung, other organ problems or anemia should consult their doctor before making the decision to visit Tibet.

 Mountain Kailash

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Common Knowledge About Tour to Tibet

Taboos part four:
No smoking in monasteries. Also it is banned to touch the statue of Buddha and religious articles and take pictures of them. In addition all should walk clockwise ( not in the Bon temples) in the monastery or around the monastery outside.

A monastery in Amdo area of Tibet

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Common Knowledge About Tours to Tibet

Taboos part three:
Tibetan people don't eat horse, dog and donkey meat and also don't eat fish in some areas. Beef, lamb, and pork are the common meat in their lives.

Tibet dumpling Momo.

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Common Knowledge About Tours to Tibet

Part two.
When the host presents you a cup of wine, you should dip your ring finger in the wine and flick the wine into the sky, in the air and tot he ground respectively to express your respects to the heaven, the earth, and the ancestors before sipping the wine. The host will fill the cup, and you take a sip of the wine again. After the host fills your cup again you have to bottom it up.

Drink Tibet wine

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Common Knowledge About Tours to Tibet

Taboos

 Part one:
Tibetans do not step on threshold when entering the tent or house. Calling somebody in name, they usually add "la" behind the name to express respects.  When they sitting  down, they cross their legs, don't stretch the legs forward and face to others.  Tibetans accept the gift with both hands. While presenting the gift one should bend his or her boby forward and hold the gift higher than his or her head with both hands. while offering tea, wine or cigarette,  they offer them by both hands and any fingers don't touch inside of the bowl.

Tibet butter tea

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Tibet overland tour: from Lhasa to Kathmandu

Travel to Tibet could be easier.Tibet Group Join in Tours are designed for single travelers, and travelers who want to join with a group to reduce costs.

Day 01: Arrival in Lhasa
Your Tibetan guide will greet you at the Lhasa Gonggar Airport or Lhasa railway station, and transfer you to your hotel in the city.

Day 02: Lhasa City Sightseeing (B)
Visit Potala Palace adn Jokhang Temple.

Day 03: Drepung Monastery and Sera Monastery (B)

Day 04: Lhasa / Yamdrok Lake / Gyantse / Shigatse 7 hours’ drive (B)

Day 05: Shigatse / Lhatse / Tingri (Shegar) / Rongphu Monastery (B)

Day 06: Rongphu Monastery / E.B.C / Zhangmu (B)
Visit Mt. Everest. Then late in the afternoon around 13:00 go down from E.B.C back to Shegar and Zhangmu. Overnight in Zhangmu

Day 07: Zhangmu / Kodari ( Nepal Boarder) (B)

After breakfast, our guide will help you clear the customs, concluding the trip.

* Tips: After you cross the “Friendship Bridge” and enter Nepal, you must clear customs at the Nepal Immigration Office. If you don’t have your Nepalese visa, you can apply at that time – normally the fee is 25USD for a single entry visa which is valid for 15 days, 40USD for 30 days, or 100USD for 90 days. To apply for a Nepalese visa, you will need to have one passport photo. After clearing the immigration process, you can start your journey to Kathmandu. Outside of the Immigration office there are plenty of taxis and buses waiting to ferry passengers to Kathmandu, or you can easily rent a car with other travelers usually priced around 600-900 rupees (about 15-20USD) per person.