4 Days Lhasa City Small Group Tour

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Day by Day Itinerary

Date & Price

MAY 2025

JUNE 2025

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Itinerary Alteration

Cancellation and Refund Policy

Potala Palace - the Landmark of Lhasa City
Do the Kora and buy souvenirs in Barkor Street
Drepung Monastery - One of the“Great Three” Gelug Monasteries of Tibet

Tour Outline: Lhasa (3N)

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Our 4-day Lhasa city tour will take you to explore the highlights of Lhasa, the holy city on Tibet Plateau. You will learn the history of Tibet from Potala Palace, witness the sacred pilgrims in front of the Jokhang Temple, and experience the Monk Debating in Sera Monastery to fully experience the authentic Tibetan life with our local Tibetan guide.

[Potala Palace] Touch this bright and flawless jewel in the roof of the world;
[Jokhang Temple] Marvel at the solemn silence with the serene sounds of chanting scriptures;
[Barkhor Street] Follow the footsteps after the pilgrims and find the peace in your heart;
[Sera Monastery] Listen to the scriptures debating and comprehend the essence of Buddhism;

Best Time to Visit

all year round.
Physical Demands

Very leisure tour; zero physical demand

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Day 1: Arrive in Lhasa

Upon your arrival in Lhasa, our tour guide will meet you and escort you at the Lhasa Gonggar Airport (or Lhasa Railway Station) to your hotel in Lhasa. After checking into your hotel, the rest of the day is free for you to have a good rest and acclimatize yourself to the high altitude at Tibet. Get prepared for your tour in Lhasa.

Stay overnight in Lhasa.

Altitude: Lhasa (3650m)
Lhasa Business Hotel

Day 2: Lhasa

Jokhang Temple

Barkhor Street

After breakfast in your hotel, your personal private will pick you up to visit the splendid Potala Palace, the cardinal landmark in Lhasa. The whole morning is for you to appreciate this world-level architectural work.

In the afternoon, you will visit the Johkang Temple, the spiritual center of Tibet. Tibetan people from all over the world come here to kowtow in the front of the entrance with their pure heart.

Finally, you can spend some time walking on around the Jokhang Temple in Barkhor Street where is full of religious atmosphere.

Drive depends on your location of hotel
Altitude: Lhasa (3680m)
Lhasa business hotel
Breakfast

Day 3: Lhasa

Drepung Monastery

Sera Monastery

After breakfast in your hotel, you will be picked up to visit Drepung Monastery, one of the "Great Three" Gelug monasteries of Tibet.

In the afternoon, you will head to visit Sera Monastery, another one of the "Great Three" Gelug monasteries in Tibet that founded in 1419 by Jamchen Chojey, to see the famous scriptures debating in this monastery.

Drive about 20km
Altitude: Lhasa (3680m)
Lhasa business hotel
Breakfast

Day 4: Lhasa Departure

This day is free for you until you head to your next destination or take flight to get back home.

Altitude: Lhasa (3680m)
Breakfast

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All travel documents needed in Tibet, including Tibet Travel Permit, Alien’s Travel Permit, Foreign Affairs Permit and Military Area Entry Permit;
Group-shared transportation to the destinations and sites listed in the itinerary; ranging from 7 seats Van to 22 seats tourist bus depending on the group size;
Lodging: three nights in Lhasa 3-star hotel (single room supplement is required if you travel individually and don’t what to share the room with another tourist);
Experienced English-speaking Tibetan local tour guide;
Entrance ticket fees for all the sight spots listed in the itinerary;
Welcome dinner at Lhasa when group members meet;
First aid kit;
A coverage of 300,000RMB Chartis travel insurance;

International and domestic flight/train to Lhasa (Note: we accept the domestic flight/train tickets booking to Lhasa from other cities in advance, check the updated ticket availibility and cost with your travel consultant);
Meals that are not specified in the itinerary (Averagely a meal in the 3rdpole region cost 3~15USD per person in Tibet Autonomous Region);
Tips and gratuities for the trip leader and driver;
The expense of a personal nature like alcoholic beverages, laundry, phone call, etc;
Optional activities and excursions not specified in the itinerary;
China Entry visa fees;

Once we receive your tour deposit, which is followed by signing the contract, your reservation is secured with legitimacy. Our staff will reserve the accommodation, vehicle, site tickets, meals and more, and pay the deposit for our suppliers. So if you want to alter to another itinerary, you need to cover the deposit we've paid, while no service charge is needed if you make some changes on the itinerary you booked.

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If you cancel the tour beacuse of your personal issues, you will be liable to pay cancellation charges that are bounded by 3rdpoletour.com cancellation policy as follows:

1.) If you cancel the tour more than 30 days before the trip starts, you will forfeit 10% of the total land cost per person;
2.) If you cancel the tour 15-30 days prior to your trip start date, 20% of your total land tour cost will be forfeited as a cancellation fee.
3.) If you cancel the tour 7-15 days before the trip starts, you will forfeit 30% of land cost.
4.) If you cancel the tour 7 days prior to your tour start date, you will forfeit 50% of land cost.
5.) If you fail to show up or cancel at your scheduled arrival time without prior notice or later than that, you will forfeit 100% of the land cost.

If the tour has to be cancelled because of the natural disaster or the government restrictions that is beyond both parties control, we will charge only USD50 per person, this is just the service fee and larbor fee during the preparation. This is a rare occurrence!