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Itinerary: (B=breakfast, L=lunch, D=dinner) Day01: Arrival in Beijing, pick up and transfer to hotel. Overnight at 3 star hotel. Day02: Beijing (B/L)
Day04: Flight Beijing - Urumqi
(B/L) Day05: Urumqi - Kashgar (B/L) Day05: Kashgar - Urumqi (B/L) Day06: Urumqi - Turfan (B/L) Day07: Turfan - Urumqi -
Beijing (B/L) Day08: Transfer to airport and departure from Beijing (B)
Itinerary: (B=breakfast, L=lunch, D=dinner) Day01: Arrival in Beijing, pick up and transfer to hotel. In the afternoon visit the Summer Palace. Overnight in 3 star hotel. Day02: Beijing (B/L) Day03: Beijing - X'an by train
(B/L) Day04: Xi'an (B/L) Day04: Xi'an - Lanzhou
(B) Day05: Lanzhou (B/L)
Day07: Dunhuang - Turfan (B/L) Day08: Turfan (B/L) Day09: Turfan - Urumqi (B/L) Day10: Urumqi - Kashgar (B/L) Day11: Kashgar - Urumqi (B/L) Day12: Flight Urumqi - Beijing
(B) Day13: Transfer to airport and departure from Beijing (B)
Itinerary: (B=breakfast, L=lunch, D=dinner) Day01: Entry from Khunjerab Pass, then drive to Tashkurgan. Day02: Tashkurgan - Kashgar, visit Kalakuly Lake. Day03: Visit the Bazaar, the Id Kah Mosque and the Abakh Khoja Tomb in Kashgar. Day04: In the morning fly to Urumqi, then drive to South Mountain Pasture, after that visit Xinjiang Museum.
Day06: Turfan - Dunhuang, by train, overnight on train. Day07: In the morning arrival at Dunhuang. Visit the famous Mogao Grottoes and the Moon Lake and Minsha Hill. Day08: Dunhuang - Lanzhou, flight, city tour in Lanzhou. Day09: Lanzhou - Xi'an, flight, then visit the Terracotta Warriors Museum. Day10: Xi'an - Beijing, by train. Today visit the Xi'an Museum, the Big Wild Goose Pagoda and the Great Mosque, in the afternoon drive to railway station and drive to Beijing by train, soft sleeper. Overnight on train. Day11: In the early morning arrival in Beijing, transfer to hotel, then visit the famous Tian’anmen Square-the largest city square in the world and then visit the Forbidden City . In the afternoon visit the Temple of Heaven. Day12: In the morning excursion to Badaling Great Wall, in the afternoon visit Summer Palace. Day13: Free Day in Beijing. Day14: Transfer to airport and departure from Beijing.
Day01: Arrival in Beijing, pick up and transfer to hotel. Overnight at 3 star hotel. Day02: Beijing Day03: Beijing Day04: Flight Beijing - Urumqi Day05: Urumqi - Kashgar Day05: Kashgar - Urumqi Day06: Urumqi - Turfan Day07: Turfan - Dunhuang, by train, overnight on train. Day08: In the morning arrival at Dunhuang. Visit the famous Mogao Grottoes and the Moon Lake and Minsha Hill.Overnight at 3 star hotel. Day09: Dunhuang - Golmud, by car, overnight in 2 star hotel. Day10
Golmud - Tuotuoheyan 420 km Day11 Tuotuoheyan - Naqu 430 km
Leave Naqu and continue our trip southwards over the
Qing-Tibet plateau. On the way cross the 5,200-meter-high Queer pass while
driving through Nyainqentangra Shan mountain. In the late afternoon arrive
in the "holy city" Lhasa.
Day13 Lhasa In the morning visit Potala, which was constructed in 637 by Songtsen Gampo, the first king of the united Tibet and later served as the winter residence of the Dalai Lamas. Another aim is Dralha Lhupuk (meditation cave) where Pelden Lhamo, the goddess of protection is enshrined. In the afternoon visit Jokhang monastery, the center of the Tibetan Buddhism and the sacred land of Buddhist followers where innumerable pilgrims come for worship everyday. The temple, built in 647, is the earliest wood-and-masonry structure still existing in Tibet. Walk on the Barkhor street nearby Jokhang, a big free market with its prolific stalls for selling local specialties. Then drive to Norbulingka, which means the garden of treasures in Tibetan language. Located in the west suburbs of Lhasa, this palace complex was built in the 18th century and served as the summer residence of the Dalai Lamas.
Day14 Lhasa In the morning visit Drepung monastery the sacred land
of Gelukpa sect., which was created in 1416 and the second, third and
fourth Dalai Lama once resided in. In the afternoon visit Sera monastery,
which was created in 1419 and has always been an important Buddhist
seminary. As rose are planted everywhere in the monastery, it is also
called "the court of wild rose". Today still 200 lamas live in
there.
Day16 Gyantse-Shigatse
Day17 Shigatse-Shegar Day18 Shegar-Zhangmu Day19 Zhangmu-Kodari-Kathmandu Day20 Kathmandu
Day21 Departure from Kathmandu
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Day03: Beijing (B/L)
Day06: Flight Lanzhou -
Dunhuang (B/L)
Day05: Urumqi - Turfan, 2
hours driving, there visit the ancient
City Gaochang and Jiaohe, the Bezekelik Buddhist Caves and a Karez Well
System—an ancient underground irrigation system still used in Turfan
area. 
Day12
Naqu - Lhasa 360 km
Day15
Lhasa- Yamdrok Tso Lake- Gyantse