Where Next?
Destination: Tibet and Xinjiang, China
Why: to see the Himalaya again from a different angle (of course!), by way of Lhasa, Everest Base Camp (North) and the Mt Kailash kora before winding up with a return visit to Kashgar. Can't wait!!!!!
When: July/August 2010
How: Wild Frontiers' Himalayan Journey from Lhasa to Kashgar.
Itinerary
Part 1: Getting there
- Day 1 : Fly London - Beijing
- Day 2 : Arrive Beijing
- Day 3 : Fly to Lhasa (= Trip day 1)
Part 2: Himalayan Journey from Lhasa to Kashgar trip
- Day 1 : Lhasa (on Getting there Day 3)
- Day 2 : Lhasa
- Day 3 : Lhasa
- Day 4 : Lhasa - Shigatse
- Day 5 : Shigatse - Lhatse
- Day 6 : Lhatse - Rongphu Monastery
- Day 7 : Rongphu - Everest Base Camp - Rongphu
- Day 8 : Rongphu - Pekhutso Lake
- Day 9 : Pekhutso Lake - Saga
- Day 10 : Saga - Paryang
- Day 11 : Paryang - Manasarovar Lake
- Day 12 : Mount Kailash
- Day 13 : Mount Kailash
- Day 14 : Mount Kailash
- Day 15 : Kailash - Tsada/Zanda (Guge)
- Day 16 : Around Tsada/Zanda (Guge)
- Day 17 : Tsada/Zanda - Shiquanhe/Ali
- Day 18 : Shiquanhe/Ali - Duoma
- Day 19 : Duoma - Da Hong Liu Tan
- Day 20 : Da Hong Liu Tan - Mazar
- Day 21 : Mazar - Yecheng
- Day 22 : Yecheng - Kashgar
- Day 23 : Kashgar
- Day 24 : Fly Kashgar - Urumchi - Beijing
Part 3: Getting back
- Day 1 : Fly Beijing - London
Google map
(Not sure if this is our route or not, but it's what comes up as Google Maps' directions from Lhasa to Kashgar!)
Information
- Wikipedia: China,Xinjiang,London, London,
Beijing,
Lhasa,
Yamḍok Yumtso,
Gyantse,
Shigatse,
Lalung La pass,
Rongphu Monastery,
(North) Everest Base Camp,
Tingri,
Yarlung Tsangpo,
Saga,
Paryang,
Manasarovar Lake,
Mount Kailash,
Toling,
Tsada / Zanda,
- Wikitravel: China,Tibet, Xinjiang,London, Beijing, Lhasa, Gyantse, Shigatse, Tingri, Yarlung Tsangpo, Mount Kailash, Ngari (prefecture), Yecheng/Karghilik, and Kashgar.
- Lonely Planet: Tibet, China
- FCO travel advice: China
- BBC country profile: China
- UNESCO World Heritage Site: Historic Ensemble of the Potala Palace, Lhasa (ie the Potala Palace, the Jokhang Temple Monastery and the Norbulingka area)
- summitpost.org: Kailash, Everest, mountains in Tibet, Mountains & Rocks in China
- Brian McMorrow's photos of the Gampa-la Pass / 岗巴拉山口 (4794m)
- The Tibet Map Institute (downloadable maps)
- Walkopedia: Mount Kailash Kora, Everest Base Camp, Lake Manasarovar
- Photos from my Central Asia Overland trip 2008: Yecheng / Karghilik, Kashgar
Guide books and reading material
- Tibet (Lonely Planet Country Guide) - Bradley Mayhew and Chris Taylor (2008)
- China (Lonely Planet Country Guide) - Damian Harper (May 2009)
- Himalaya-Tibet (Gecko Maps)
- Kailash Panoramic Map (Gecko Maps)
- The Mount Kailash Trek (Cicerone Guide) - Sian Pritchard-Jones and Bob Gibbons
Languages (Wikitravel phrasebooks)
Weather forecasts (www.accuweather.com)
- Beijing
- Lhasa
- Gyantse
- Shigatse
- Tingri
- Saga
- Paryang
- Totling
- Tsada / Zanda
- Shiquanhe / Ali
- Duoma
- Da Hong Liu Tan
- Mazar
- Tuyugou
- Yecheng
- Kashgar
- Home (for comparison):London, United Kingdom
Map of countries visited
(as at 26 October 2008)
North America
- Canada - World Tour 1997-1999 (albeit only crossing to the Canadian side of Niagara Falls!)
- United States - World Tour 1997-1999, Burning Man 2002
Central America and the Caribbean
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South America
- Argentina - Chile & Argentinian Patagonia, 2003
- Bolivia
- Chile - Chile & Argentinian Patagonia, 2003,