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Lhasa Day Tours
Here are just a few examples of tours we can offer in Lhasa, but these can all be adapted to your own timetable and interests. A local English-speaking guide with a car and driver will meet you at your hotel, office, airport or railway station, and prices are based on 2 persons sharing.
Jewels of Lhasa - LX11
Visit the 15th century Sera Monastery and its Great Assembly Hall, dormitories and colleges where 10,000 monks used to live. Later, follow the throngs of pilgrims as they make the clockwise circuit along Barkhor Street that encircles the golden-roofed Jokhang Temple, home to the most sacred Buddha statue for Tibetans.
Winter & Summer Palaces - LX12
425ft above the city on Red Mountain stands the fortress-like Potala Palace,13 storeys high and with 1,000 rooms filled with statues, chapels, manuscripts and murals. Potala was the winter palace of the Dalai Lamas and Tibet’s headquarters for centuries. Later visit the summer palace, Norbulingka, a complex of delightful pavilions and gardens.
Drepung Monastery - LX13
One of the three great monasteries of Tibet, Drepung Monastery is a religious university where around 600 monks live – in its heyday before the Potola Palace was built there were over 10,000 and it was the largest in the world.
To book one of these tours please call us on our business services direct line 020 7935 0055 or you can fill out our online booking form.
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