Cập nhật lịch
Đây là lịch trình của nhóm mình, tụi mình đi từ 29/4 đến 12/5, tổng cộng 14 ngày, trong đó mất hai ngày để bay qua bay về Thành Đô, như vậy có tổng cộng 12 ngày để lang thang Tibet. Thời điểm tụi mình đi có lẽ còn hơi lạnh, nhưng bù lại vắng du khách hơn và deal được giá rẻ hơn là đi vào tháng 6. Hiện tụi mình đã có 5 người chính thức đi. Còn 1 số đang đặt cục gạch chưa quyết định.
Về lịch trình đi thì như sau: do tụi mình đi 12 ngày cũng khá lỡ cỡ, ko đủ để đi đến Everest Camp Base rồi quay lại nên quyết định sẽ đi từ Lhasha đến Gyantse, theo cung đường vòng hể ngắm hồ Yamdrok, tiếp theo đến Shigatse, rồi đi thẳng lại về Lhasha theo tuyến ngắn hơn. Tiếp theo tụi mình sẽ ở hồ Namtso, đi lanh quanh những điểm gần Lhasha rồi về lại Thành Đô. Những địa điểm mình tham quan sẽ nằm trên cung đường này:
TIBET PLAN
Day 1 (30 April 2011) Chendu – Lhasa
Arrive in Lhasa. Air port picking up to hotel.
Spend the rest of the day in hotel room for acclimatization.
Day 2 Lhasa
Morning: Drepung monastery (admission 50Y, about 8km west of central Lhasa). Drepung and Sera are... must-sees in Lhasa.
Afternoon: Jokhang temple (admission 70Y).
Evening: Wandering Barkhor in a lockwise direction together with pilgrims. Exploring street life in Tibet.
Day 3 Lhasa
Morning: Potala (admission 100Y). You should go the office at the southwestern gate by noon the day before you intended visit in order to get the reservation slip detailing a time for your visit the next day.
Afternoon: Sera monastery (admission 55Y, approximately 5km north of central Lhasa). The debating is usually held in the monastery’s courtyard between 3pm and 5pm. Chapels start to close at 3pm, so it make sense to see the monastery chapels before heading to the debating.
The Sera kora (pilgrimage circuit) takes less than an hour and is well worth the time.
Evening Lingkhor Walking Tour.
Day 4 Lhasa – Gyantse (261km)
Drive to Gyantse via Yamdrok lake. Passing the Karola (5010m), Kambala (4794m) and the Tibetan life beside Yarlung Tsangpo.
Pelkor Chode Monastery and Gyantse Kumbum (addmision 40Y).
Day 5 Gyantse – Shigatse (90km)
Shalu monastery (admission 40Y). It was the centre for in skill such as trance walking and thumo (generating internal heat to survive in cold winter), feats made famous by the flying monks of Alexandra Davi-Neel’s book Magic and Mistery in Tibet.
Tashilhungpo monastery (admission 55Y).
Day 6 Shigatse – Lhasa
Yungdrungling monastery was once the second most influential Bon monastic institution in Tibet and home to 700 monks. The number is now limited to 35 by the Chinese government and consists largely of different fraction of Bonpos from the Aba region of northern Sichuan.
Day 7 Lhasa – Namtso
Namtso lake (addmision 80Y) is the second largest saltwater lake in China and one of the most beautiful natural sight in Tibet. It is over 70km long, reaches a width of 30km and is 35m at its deepest point. When the ice melts in late April, the lake is miraculous shade of turquoise and there are magnificent view of the nearby mountains.
Tashi Do monastery.
Day 8 Namtso – Reting Monastery (addmision 30Y)
Reting monastery is the beautiful place that the Dalai Lama would like to reside if he ever return to Tibet.
Day 9 Reting monastery – Drigung Til Monastery
First established in 1167, Drigung Til Monastery was the head monastery of the Drigungpa school of the Kagyupa order and the most famous sky burial site in central Tibet.
Day 10 Drigung Til Monastery – Ganden Monastery (addmision 45Y)
Just 50km northeast of Lhasa, was the first Gelugpa monastery and has been the main seat of this major Buddhist order ever since. With its stupendous views of the surrounding Kyi-chu Valley and fascinating kora, Ganden is an experience unlike the other major Gelugpa monastery in Lhasa area.
Day 11 Ganden Monastery – Samye Monastery
Surrounded by barren mountains and dramatic sand dunes and approached via a beautiful river crossing, the monastery has a magic about it that causes many travelers to stay longer than they had intended.
Samye was Tibet’s very fisrt monastery and has a history that spans more than 1200 years. Samye represents the Tibetan state’s first effort to allow the Buddhist faith to set down roots in the country. The Bon majority at court, whose religion prevailed in Tibet prior to Buddhism, were not at all pleased with this development.
Day 12 Samye Monastery – Gongkar Airport
