East Tibet - Kham
West Tibet - Nagri
Mt. Kailash and Guge Kingdom Trek
Guge Kingdom, Holy Mt. Kailash and Mansarover Lake from Hulmla and back to Zhangmu ( 23 Days )
Zhada country(Guge Kingdom)

The attractions of Guge Kingdom Trek/Tour are the Hidden Guge Kingdom, Guge Valley, Tsaparang Castle, Tholing Monastery, Palaces and Monasteries under Guge Kingdom, Zhada country, holy Mt. Kailash, Trekking around Mt. Kailash, Manasarover, high passes, Land and golden hills on the way to Guge, walking and camping in Tibet etc.

Guge Kingdom was founded on tenth century by a descendant of King Lang Darma, who fled from Lhasa after the collapse of Tubo Kingdom . This Kingdom survived about 700 years and disappeared mysteriously in the 17 th century.

The Guge ruins lie at a hill top near a river covering 180,000 square meters, houses, coves dwelling, Monasteries and stupas are distributed on the hill and surrounding area. There are palaces set on Sumit while monastries on mountain side, the kingdom was enclosed in tunnels and walls. Some of structures survive at this time and remain in good conditions.

Guge Kingdom is famous for murals. Sculptures and stone inscriptions which we can find on the surviving structures, there are still white palace, Red palace, Yamantaka Chapel, Tara Chapel and Mandala Chapel are in good condition. We can get many inscriptions on there part, so it is known as Hidden Kingdom .

Guge ruins, the good selection for strong kingdom have many historic things which will be totally mysterious for this modern life.

Optional arrangements:

The program can be arranged according to your interest as:
•  Entry from Simikot/Exit from Lhasa .
•  Entry/Exit from Lhasa .
•  Entry/Exit from Nepal by driving.
•  Extension to other trek and tour in Tibet including Everest Base Camp
•  Extension to Ali and others.

Outline Itinerary

 
DAYS
ITINERARY
  1
Fly to Nepalgunj One night hotel.
  2
Fly to Simikot trek to Darapani.
  3
Trek to Salikhola
  4
Trek to Yalbang Gompa/ Mochu by the Karnali River
  5
Trek to Tumkot Khola/Pani pal bang
  6
Trek to Thado Dunga/ Narala Phidi
  7
Trek over Nara La Pass (4325 m) to camp at Hilsa /Taklakot
  8
Trek half an hour to Sher drive to Taklakot, settle all formalities / Visit LhamoYutok monastery
  9
Drive to Manasarovar Lake
  10
Explore Manasarovar Lake
  11
Drive to Tirthapuri afternoon explores Tirthapuri area.
  12
Explore Tirthapuri and Gurugem.
  13
Drive to Tholing.
  14
Explore Tholing monastery and Tsaprang Castle.
  15
Drive to Mense.
  16 Drive to Darchen.
  17 Trek to Dira Phuk gomba
  18 Trek over Dolma La pass [5630m] camp at Khando Shanglham.
  19 Drive to Hor Manas Lake
  20 Drive to Paryang
  21 Drive to Saga
  22 Drive to Nyalam
  23 Drive to Kathmandu
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