Adventure Shanghai to Lhasa 17D

Adventure Shanghai to Lhasa 17 Days
This 17-Day tour weaves Shanghai, Mogao Grottoes, Lhasa, Everest Camp Base, Pandas in Chengdu, and Hong Kong. Explore the colorful culture and unusual sites with local people.

Itinerary
Day 1. Arrival Shanghai
Arrival in Shanghai, your guide will meet you and transfer you to the hotel. Orientation Wall near the walk.
Overnights in Shanghai Ibis Hotel 3* hotel or similar
Meals: Welcome Dinner

Day 2. Shanghai
Hotel breakfast, then start the city tour to the Yugarden, old street, Bund, finished at the Shanghai Museum.
Overnights in Shanghai Ibis Hotel 3* hotel or similar
Meals: Breakfast and lunch

Day 3. Shanghai/Dunhuang
Transfer to Shanghai airport and take flight from Shanghai to Dunhuang. Upon arrival in Dunhuang, your guide will meet you and transfer you to hotel, explore the night market in the evening.
Overnight in Dunhuang Silk Road Hotel （4*） or similar hotel
Meals: Breakfast and lunch

Day 4. Dunhuang
Mogao Caves tour in the morning, a highlight of the Silk Road. Visit Minsha Dunes and Crescent Moon Spring in the afternoon.
Overnight in Dunhuang Silk Road Hotel （4*）or similar hotel
Meals: Breakfast and lunch

Day 5. Dunhuang/Liuyuan/Xining
Transfer from Dunhuang to Liuyuan station to catch a bullet train(approx.5 hours) to Xining.
Overnight in Xining Qinghai Hotel 5* hotel or simila
Meals: Breakfast and lunch

Day 6. Xining/Lhasa
This morning visit Kumbum Monastery which is one of the six biggest Tibetan Buddhism Monastories, and then take soft sleeper train to Lhasa (approx. 20 hours) this afternoon.
Overnight on the train.
Meals: Breakfast and lunch

Day 7. Arrival Lhasa
Arrival Lhasa in the afternoon, transfer to hotel. Orientation walk near the hotel.
Overnight in Lhasa hotel （4*).
Meals: Breakfast and lunch

Day 8. Lhasa
Spend the day exploring the highlights of the Tibetan capitol starting with the Potala Palace. The exotic structure stands 13 stories high and contains more than 1,000 rooms. The palace is divided into two sections. The White Palace, built in the mid-17th century, provided living quarters for the fifth through the fourteenth Dalai Lamas. From the White Palace, pilgrims climb to the central Red Palace, completed in the late 17th century and packed with chapels, ornate statues, and the gem-embellished tombs of past Dalai Lamas. The fifth Dalai Lama's tomb, made from two tons of gold, stands three stories tall. Afterwards visit the Tibet's holiest shrine, the Jokhang Temple, at over 1300 years old it holds one of Tibet's most venerated images, a solid gold statue of Sakyamuni Buddha. Finish up with walk around the Barkhor area filled with thousands of pilgrims, shops and tea houses to relax and soak up the atmosphere.
Overnight in Lhasa Hotel （4*） or similar
Meals: Breakfast and lunch

Day 9.Lhasa-Yamdrok-Gyantse -Shigatse
Today we will continue our journey to other places of Tibet . About hundred kilometers, you will appreciate the holy Lake of Yamdrok Yumtso. Drive to historical city Gyantse. On the way, we can see the Karola Glacier Visit Pelkhor monastery for its famous Kumbum Pagoda. 270m 5-6 hrs
Overnight in Shigatse Shenghu Hotel 4* or similar.
Meals: Breakfast and lunch

Day 10. Shigatse—Sakya- Shegar
This morning visit Pachen Lama's seat place, the great Tashilumpo monastery, a very big and complex monastery in Tibet. After then, drive to Shegar. One the way visit Sakya Monastery that has a history of more than 900 years, and is the leading monastery for the Sakyapa school of Tibetan Buddhism. A number of cultural relics and artifacts in the Sakya Monastery exhibits this is a historical and cultural museum, presenting its glittering past to all visitors. 300km 7-8hrs
Overnight in guesthouse
Meals: Breakfast and lunch

Day 11. Shegar-Everest
Today break away from the Friendship Highway and travel towards Rongbuk Monastery near the Mount Everest Base Cam. Rongbuk Monastery is the highest monastery in the world and has been rebuilt considerably in the past decade. From here, you can see stunning views of Everest and the surrounding Rongbuk Valley. Spend rest of the day exploring to the Everest Base Camp.
Overnight at Local Guest house. 120km 3-4hrs
Overnight in guesthouse
Meals: Breakfast and lunch

Day 12. Everest -Shigatse
Morning time exploring to the Everest Base Camp, Afterwards drive back to Shigatse. 370km 8-9hrs
Overnight in Shigatse Shenghu Hotel 4* or similar
Meals: Breakfast and lunch

Day 13. Shigatse-Lhasa
Drive back to Lhasa along the Yarlung Tasangpo River. On the way have a family visit for a glimpse of everyday Tibetan life. 280km 5-6hrs
Overnight in Lhasa Hotel (4*) or similar
Meals: Breakfast and lunch

Day 14. Lhasa/Chengdu
Take a flight to Chengdu in the morning. This afternoon, walking tour to Wenshu Temple and Kuanzhai Alleys. Dinner is the yummy hot pot.
Overnight in Chengdu Xinliang Hotel (4*) or similar
Meals: Breakfast and dinner

Day 15. Chengdu/Hong Kong
7: 30am, depart from hotel to Panda Base to see the cute panda feeding in the morning. At 11am, private transfer to Chengdu airport to catch flight to Hong Kong.
Upon Arrival, transfer to hotel. Orientation walk near the hotel.
Overnight in Hong Kong Standford Hotel 3* or similar
Meals: Breakfast

Day 16. Hong Kong
Free explore in Hong Kong.
Overnight in Hong Kong Standford Hotel 3* or similar
Meals: Breakfast

Day 17. Departure from Hong Kong
Free time till transferring to airport to catch your flight back home.
End of services.
Meal: Breakfast