Customer Supports for Your Tibet Travel

We offer both private customizable Tibet tours and fix-departure group tours. What are the differences?

Private tours - firstly, you have the flexibility to arrange the group activities according to your personal interests; secondly, you can also travel at a slower and comfortable pace; thirdly, you will have your own private local tour guide, private vehicle and private driver for your group.

Group tours - traveling with a group tour, you will join other people in a fixed-departure date, and share the itinerary, vehicle and tour guide, which will greatly cut down your expense. To ensuring high quality service, we limit the group size to a maximum of 12 people.

First, you have to have a valid passport which proves your identity and allows you to leave your country; second, you have to apply for and obtain a Chinese visa before your trip. If you travel from Nepal or Indian to Tibet, you have to obtain a Group Visa (a special Chinese Visa); third, you must get a Tibet Entry Permit with which you can board your flight/train to Tibet and travel in Tibet; forth, other extra Tibet permits: 1) traveling beyond Lhasa, you have to have an Alien Travel Permit; 2) traveling to border area, such as Mount Everest, Mount Kailash, you have to get a Border Pass; traveling to military restrict areas, such as Mount Kailash, you have to hold a Military Permit.

Tibet is vast, but not every place in Tibet is ideal for family travel maybe because of harsh weather, inaccessibility or other facts. Based on our local experience and knowledge, we recommend Lhasa, Yamdrok Lake, Gyantse and Shigatse for you because they are rich in culture and landscape, and have better hotels and restaurants. Besides, these destinations are not very far away from Lhasa.

Tibet Discovery specializes in finding the highlighting family-friendly experience in the vast land – 1) learn a vivid lesson of Tibetan history and Buddhism culture with your children; 2) experience the real Tibetan living and even be a Tibetan for a day – making handicrafts, such as thangka, bracelet, etc, eating Zanba, drinking buttered tea… 3) take your children to make friends with local Tibetan kids; 4) explore the featured landscape which you can only see in Tibet; 5) take a Tibetan food cooking class… With the benefit of our know-how, you and your family will experience far more in a single trip.

Nepal-Tibet border ports had been closed for travelers for a long time since 2015 Nepal Earthquake. But currently Gyirong Port at the Nepal-Tibet border has been opened for foreign travelers. From 30 August, 2017, foreign travelers can enter Tibet from Nepal or leave Tibet for Nepal at Gyirong Port.

Gyirong Port is located in Gyilong Town, bordering Rasuwa Port in Nepal. It is only about 89km from Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, about 25km from Gyirong Town, about 820km from lhasa, and about 360km from Mount Everest (Tibet Side). If you arrive at Gyilong Port in the morning, you can directly drive to Mount Everest in a day. If you travel from Lhasa, via Mount Everest to Kathmandu, you can usually accommodate for a night at Gyirong Town, then leavel for Kathmandu in the next day.

To travel from Nepal to Tibet, you have to apply for several documents, including a Group Visa, Tibet Border Pass and Tibet Entry Permit.

More than 80% of our former customers chose to get to China's other regions first, then travel from some major gateway cities to Tibet. Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chengdu are most popular international arrival hubs in China which are connected to the most countries in the world.

Before leaving for Tibet, you can spend some days exploring the most featured destinations in China, such as Beijing, Xian, Chengdu, Guilin, Zhangjiajie, Huangshan, etc. Then take a flight or train to Tibet from popular gateway cities, such as Beijing, Chengdu, Chongqing, Kunming, Xian, Xining, Shanghai, etc.

Traveling with Tibet Discovery, you don’t have to spend much time search for flight/train schedules, and get troubled by complicated and unreadable booking process. As a part of our tour package, your flights and trains in the itinerary will usually be booked for you by your travel consultant. You just need to provide us your passport information.

Currently, cities including Beijing, Chengdu, Chongqing, Xian, Shanghai, Lanzhou, Xining, offer both flights and trains to Tibet. Flights are usually scheduled daily. While some trains run daily and some run every other day.

Every day, the diligent Tibet trains unload about 2000 tourists to the holy city Lhasa from different cities around China. What makes so many travelers flock into Tibet by train?

The first also the biggest reason is to experience the world engineering wonder which has created 9 extraordinary world records (the highest railway – 5072m, highest railway station - 5072m, the longest plateau railway -1976kkm, longest rail bridge – 11.7km, longest plateau tunnel in permafrost – 1686m …) and check out how the engineers overcame the biggest three technical challenges during the construction Qinghai Tibet Railway - widespread frozen earth, high altitude sickness and eco-environment protection. The second reason is to enjoy the breathtaking plateau landscape along the railway – huge salt lakes Qinghai and Qarhan, vast and mysterious Hoh Xil Depopulated Zone, the Elf of Qinghai Tibet Plateau – Tibetan Antelope, Dominating Tanggula Mountains, Blue Diamond - Tsonag Lake, plains dotted with yaks and herder’s tents… The third reason is the much lower cost, compared with air transfer, especially during peak seasons.

1) Spending some leisure day in Lhasa city to see the Potala Palace, Jokhang Temple and join local pilgrimage kora; 2) traveling to Everest Base Camp(5200m) on the world’s highest peak; 3) enjoying the breathtaking landscape at holy Namtso Lake; 4) going to see the famous Kumbum in Palcho Monastery; 5) Visiting the official seat of His Holiness Panchen Lama - Tashilhunpo Monastery; 6) joining pilgirms to have a memorable trek around Asia’s holiest mountain – Mount Kailash; 7) exploring the first Tibetan monastery and palace in Tibetan history – Samye Monastery and Yumbulangkang Palace in Tsetang; 8) attending the annual Nyingchi Peach Blossom Festival.