Recommended China Tours including Tibet

Destinations: Chengdu / Lhasa

Highlights: Chengdu Panda Base, Qinghai Tibet Railway, Potala Palace

Chengdu is the most preferred gateway city to Tibet and traveling by train is the best transportation to view the landscape on the way. This tour gives you an opportunity to feast your eyes leisurely.

Destinations: Chengdu / Lhasa

Highlights: Panda Base, Wenshu Temple, Potala Palace, Sera Monastery

Chengdu is the hometown of giant panda while Lhasa is the holy city of Buddhism. Visiting these two cities will never disappoint you. This tour covers the most highlighted sites of them.

Destinations: Chengdu / Lhasa / Lhasa / Shigatse / Gyantse / Mount Everest / Lhasa

Highlights: Panda Base, Potala Palace, Yamdrok Lake, Palcho Monastery Mt.Everest

This tour is made for those who want to have a short stay in Chengdu and a deep discovery of Tibet. Before heading to Tibet, you have the chance to enjoy a close visit to the giant panda which is known as “living fossil” in “laid-back” Chengdu. In Tibet, you will spend several days exploring Lhasa, then go to visit the peak of the world - Mt. Everest via Gyantse and Shigatse. On your journey, you will experience all features of Tibet – holy palace and monastery, snow-capped mountain, sacred lake, devoted pilgrims etc.

Destinations: Chengdu / Xining / Lhasa

Highlights: Panda Base, Wenshu Temple, Potala Palace, Sera Monastery

Want to view the natural beauty along the Qinghai-Tibet Railway but dislike too long train journey? This tour is what you need. You will take a flight to Xining and then get to Lhasa by train.

Destinations: Shanghai / Lhasa

Highlights: The Bund, Yuyuan Garden, Potala Palace, Sera Monastery

Shanghai is one of the most popular international hubs in China, as well as one of the most used gateways to Lhasa in China. It has several flights to Lhasa each day (usually with short stops at Xian or Chengdu). This tour makes fully use of the convenient transfer between Shanghai and Lhasa, also covers the highlights of Shanghai and Lhasa in a single trip.

Destinations: Shanghai / Lhasa

Highlights: Yu Garden, Qinghai Tibet Railway, Potala Palace, Jokhang Temple

Shanghai is taken as the arrival city in China by a lot of travelers. It has a daily train to the holy land Tibet, traversing a long trip over 4,370 kilometers. Though as a very long train journey, there are a lot of things to see along the railway - contrast culture, beautiful cities and towns, harsh Qinghai Tibet Plateau... This trip firstly takes you to explore Shanghai highlights in brief two days, then take a train to Lhasa to visit the world-famous Potala Palace, touch with local Tibetan, learn about Tibetan Buddhism...

Destinations: Shanghai / Lhasa / Shigatse / Mount Everest / Lhasa

Highlights: The Bund, Potala Palace, Yamdrok Lake, Mount Everest

This tour connects the most energetic city Shanghai with the most mysterious pure land Tibet, which is combination of both culture experience and landscape sightseeing. Firstly spend some days exploring the modern metropolis Shanghai where you can find some interesting old tradition. Then take a flight to Lhasa where you will visit the world-famous Potala Palace, Jokhang Temple, etc. The final destination is the peak of the world - Everest.

Destinations: Shanghai / Xian / Lhasa

Highlights: The Bund, Terracotta Warriors, Potala Palace, Jokhang Temple

Why travel Shanghai and Lhasa with Xian? Firstly, all three destinations are full of things to do with a lot of world-famous attractions, such as the Bund in Shanghai, Terracotta Warriors, Potala Palace in Lhasa; Secondly, it's money-saving because Xian usually offers cheaper flights to Lhasa compared with Shanghai and also has more frequent schedules. This tour starts from Shanghai, then make a stop at Xian before heading to explore the holy land Tibet. It's leisure and classic!

Destinations: Xian / Lhasa

Highlights: Terracotta Warriors, Ancient City Wall, Potala Palace, Jokhang Temple

Xian is one of the most popular tourist cities in China and one of the recommended gateway cities to Tibet. There are 5~7 daily flights from Xian to Lhasa and you can easily travel between them within 3.5 hours. This 7 days tour covers the highlights of Xian and Lhasa with a quick transfer of flight. You will firstly probe into China’s old history by discovering the numerous cultural sites in Xian and then fly to Holy City Lhasa to admire the sublime Buddhist sites and amazing architectures.

Destinations: Beijing / Xian / Lhasa

Highlights: Great Wall, Terracotta Warriors, Qinghai Tibet Railway, Potala Palace

This tour combines the two greatest ancient capital cities in China - Beijing and Xian with the holy city Lhasa in a single trip. You will firstly spend several days in Beijing to visit the world-famous attractions, such as Great Wall, Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven, etc. Then take a high speed bullet train to Xian to see the man-made wonder - Terracotta Warriors. Lastly, go to take a train to experience the highest railway in the world Qinghai Tibet Railway. As a private tour, you will be able to travel at a leisure pace with more flexibility.

Destinations: Xian / Lhasa

Highlights: Terracotta Warriors, Ancient City Wall, Qinghai Tibet Railway, Potala Palace

Geographically speaking, the train ride from Xian to Lhasa is much shorter than some other long-distance train trip from Beijing, Chengdu, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Chongqing. It takes only about 31~32 hours. Passengers only need to spend a night on the train, but don’t have to miss the highlighting Qinghai Tibet Railway. During your train journey to Lhasa, You will have chance to enjoy the unique charming scenery along the railway, such as the mysterious Kunlun Mountains, wild Hohxil Nature Reserve, the “Elf of Qinghai Tibet Plateau” - Tibetan Antelope...

Destinations: Shanghai / Xian / Lhasa

Highlights: The Bund, Terracotta Warriors, Potala Palace, Jokhang Temple

Why travel Shanghai and Lhasa with Xian? Firstly, all three destinations are full of things to do with a lot of world-famous attractions, such as the Bund in Shanghai, Terracotta Warriors, Potala Palace in Lhasa; Secondly, it's money-saving because Xian usually offers cheaper flights to Lhasa compared with Shanghai and also has more frequent schedules. This tour starts from Shanghai, then make a stop at Xian before heading to explore the holy land Tibet. It's leisure and classic!

Destinations: Hong Kong / Chengdu / Lhasa

Highlights: Hong Kong Independent Tour, Panda Base, Wenshu Temple, Potala Palace, Jokhang Temple

You may happen to be in Hong Kong and planning to visit Tibet. Easy! But you can't fly directly to Lhasa, and have to make a stop at Chengdu. Here is the right deal.

Destinations: Beijing / Xining / Lhasa

Highlights: Forbidden City, Great Wall, Potala Palace, Mt. Everest

Usually it takes more than 40.5 hours to get to Lhasa by train, and the first half of the train journey is not as scenic as the second half (Qinghai Tibet Railway). This tour has shortened the long time spend on the train, cut the boring first half’s train journey, and left you enough time to experience the spectacular train life on the Qinghai Tibet Railway. At the same time, it also will take you to explore the best highlights in historical Beijing, beautiful Qinghai and holy Land Tibet.

Destinations: Chengdu / Xining / Lhasa

Highlights: Panda Base, Wenshu Temple, Potala Palace, Sera Monastery

Want to view the natural beauty along the Qinghai-Tibet Railway but dislike too long train journey? This tour is what you need. You will take a flight to Xining and then get to Lhasa by train.

Destinations: Xining - Lhasa

Highlights: Qinghai Tibet Railway, Potala Palace, Jokhang Temple

It is now very popular for tourist to take a train across the Tibetan Plateau from Xining to Lhasa. The distance between Lhasa and Xining is 1,972km (about 1,233 miles). On this train tour, you will pass the sparsely populated Kekexili Nature reserve in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau; see wild animals through the train window; and enjoy the breathtaking natural beauty of Plateau lakes and snow-covered mountains along the train line.

Destinations: Kunming / Lijiang / Shangri-La / Lhasa / Namtso /Lhasa

Highlights: Stone Forest, Tiger Leaping Gorge, Potala Palace, Jokhang Temple

A marvelous tour takes you to discover two most attractive plateau destinations in western China. You will be amazed by both breathtaking landscape and rich cultural experience.

Destinations: Kunming / Lijiang / Shangri-La / Lhasa / Shigatse / Mount Everest / Gyirong / Kathmandu

Highlights: Stone Forest, Lijiang Ancient City, Songzanlin Lamasery, Potala Palace, Mount Everest

Both Yunnan and Tibet are plateaus but with different culture and nature. Yunnan, the Province of Colorful Clouds, has 26 ethnic groups, including the famous Naxi and Tibetan. While the majority of Tibet's population are Tibetan people. A trip connect Yunnan with Tibet is a very interesting experience. You will witness the natural wonders, experience exotic ethnic culture... This is the tour! You will finish your trip at the Nepal Tibet border - Gyirong Port where you can easily get to Kathmandu, the capital city of Nepal.