12 Days Chengdu – Lhasa – Shigatse Tour by Train

B-- Breakfast    L-- Lunch    D-- Dinner

• Day 1 Arrival In Chengdu

     

  Guide and driver will wait you at Chengdu Airport/Railway holding your name sign. Transfer to hotel in downtown Chengdu. 

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• Day 2 Chengdu - Panda Base - Leshan - Emei

     

  We’ll pick you up at your hotel in Chengdu (inside 2nd Ring Road) about 7:00 am and then drive to visit the Panda Research Base in northern suburb of Chengdu this morning. The Chengdu Panda Base was founded in 1987. It started with 6 giant pandas that were rescued from the wild. Through 2007, it has had 110 panda births, and its panda population has grown to 62. It is a huge, beautifully landscaped park.

  After lunch (about 13:00 pm), drive to Leshan city to see the famous Giant Buddha which is a statue of Maitreya (a Bodhisattva usually represented as a very stout monk with a broad smile on his face and with his naked breast and paunch exposed to view) in sitting posture. It is 71 meters (about 233 feet) high, and has 8.3-meter-long (about 27 feet) fingers. The 9-meter-wide (about 30 feet) instep is big enough for one hundred people to sit on and the 24-meter-wide (about 79 feet) shoulder is large enough to be a basketball playground. (Optional: ferry boat ride at Leshan Giant Buddha, USD 10/person).

  We’ll continue to go to the foot of Mt. Emei around 18:00 pm. 

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• Day 3 Emei - Chengdu

     

  After sightseeing Mt Emei, drive back to Chengdu for the night. 

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• Day 4 Train: Chengdu-Lhasa

     

  Go to Chengdu North Railway Station on your own. Exchange eTicket to the actual paper ticket at the ticket booth by showing them the eTicket & your original passport. To arrive abt 2hrs in advance is suggested.

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• Day 5 The Train

     

  Today, you will spend the whole day in the train. Enjoy the fantastic view along the Qinghai-Tibet Railway. 

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• Day 6 Arrival In Lhasa By Train

     

  Our local Tibetan guide will wait you at Lhasa railway station holding your name sign. You will be greeted with a warm Tashidelek (meaning hello with blissing), and be presented with a white Hada (traditional Tibetan ceremonial by give you a white scarf). Then transfer to hotel in Lhasa city. To rest well on your first arrival in Lhasa (3650m) is essential to ease Acute Mountain Sickness (AMS, also known as altitude sickness). Try your best to resist the temptation of going out.

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• Day 7 Lhasa City

     

  As the capital city, Lhasa is the political, economic, cultural, communication and tourism center of Tibet with a history over 1300 years.

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• Day 8 Lhasa Suburb

     

  Today you will visit attractions in Lhasa suburb. You will stay long hour on sightseeing under the fierce sun of Tibet, do arm yourself with sunglasses/ hat/ sunscreen, etc.

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• Day 9 Lhasa - Gyantse - Shigatse

     

  From Lhasa to Gyantse is abt 264km, en route you will pass by Khamba-la Pass (4794m), and with the huge massif of Mt Nojin Kangtsang (7191m) at far distance in view. Then head to Shigatse via the fertile Nyangchu Valley, a wide agricultural plain where colorfully decorated yaks and horses are used by Tibetan farmers to till the land.

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• Day 10 Shigatse - Lhasa

     

  We will depart today from your hotel in Shigatse around 08:00ish. The rode condition is pretty good but because of the speed-limit, we will spend about 6hrs on the road. 

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• Day 11 Flight: Lhasa-Chengdu

     

  Transfer to Lhasa Airport for the flight to Chengdu, abt 2.5hrs. Upon your arrival in Chengdu Airport, look for your guide, then transfer to hotel in downtown Chengdu.

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• Day 12 Departure From Chengdu

     

  Pick up from hotel in Chengdu according to your flight schedule, then transfer to Chengdu Airport for your next destination.

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