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Tour Code: COT-1396
Start in: Beijing
End in: Lhasa
This itinerary is designed specificly for Nagqu Horse Racing Festival.Usually the festival is hold on August. Please kindly check with your travel consultant before you confirm this tour to Nagqu Horse Racing Festival.

    

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Tibet Rail Tour

          

Trip Highlights

Visit Yangpachen,the water temperature of some springs is so high that it will even cook fish. You can also put eggs, noodles into the springs and enjoy the delicious food.

Visit Potala Palace, which fully retains the Tibitan residence-blockhouse tradition, while here and there it also has decorations or structures that are of Han nationality or Nepal left by the craftsmen from interior China and west Asia.

Visit Jokhang Temple, Tibet's holiest shrine, where often prayers led by monks on the roof.

Sing and dance in great rejoicing throughout the night in the Barkhore Street, along which display nutter sciulptures of fugures, flowers, birds and animals.

Visit Norbulingka Park, the former summer residence of the Dalai Lama.

Sera Monastery is a typical of Tibetan architecture.Covering an area of 114,964 square meters, the structure is imposing, pictuesque in disorder, and splendid in green and gold.

Visit Drepung Monastery, the largest monastery in the Gelug Sect. In the exciting Shoton Festival, "Sunning the Buddha" by the monastery has been one of the most magnificent religious activities in Tibet.

Visit Palkor ( Palcho ) Monastery in Gyangze County. It is famous as the "100,000 Buddha Pagoda."

Visit Guantse, one of southern Tibet's principal centres.

Yamdroyumtso Lake teems with a scaleless fish, known as the naked carp, hence enjoying the reputation of the Storage of Fish in Tibet. It is also a home for water birds.

There are no ¡®typical¡¯ Tibetan families; some are rich, some are poor, some are nomadic others are urban, some families live in Tibet but there are also a great number living in exile in other countries.

Tashilhunpo is the largest monastery in Ulterior Tibet, and one of the four main monasteries of the Ge-lug-pa Sect.

Visit Mt. Everest. It's beauty takes your breath away. Its streaming flag clouds are Qomolangma's most famous sight.

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