PreeChina · Sight Guide
7 sights within 222 km of Lhasa. Pick the ones you want and PreeChina can build a private, custom or tailor-made tour around them.
At a Glance
Price
Per person, in US dollars. The price covers the guide, the ground service, and the transport, meals and tickets in the itinerary, and it falls as the group grows. This route is customized for the region, so the figures are a starting point. What a price includes and leaves out.
| Travelers | 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 15 | 20 | 30 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day trip | USD 305 | USD 220 | USD 185 | USD 175 | USD 160 | USD 155 | USD 145 | USD 135 |
Premium hotels and first-class rail raise the price: the selectors on Private Tours show by how much. The final price is confirmed in writing before anything is booked.
Why These Sights
7 temple and sacred site sights lie within 222 km of central Lhasa, from Ganden Monastery at 36 km to Tashilhunpo Monastery at 222 km. They are: Ganden Monastery, Samye Monastery, Chimpu Hermitage, Trandruk Monastery, Sekhar Guthok, Palcho Monastery, Tashilhunpo Monastery.
This page lists the sights and how far each one sits from the city centre. It does not set a length for the trip: your private itinerary decides which sights to combine, the order and the number of days.
The Lhasa city guide covers the city itself.
Map
The gold marker is central Lhasa. Numbers run from the closest sight to the farthest.
Sight by Sight
36 km from central Lhasa, straight line
The first Gelug monastery, founded in 1409 by Tsongkhapa.
52 km from central Lhasa, straight line
Built under Trisong Detsen with Shantarakshita and Padmasambhava. Its plan follows the Buddhist cosmos: the central Utse hall stands for Mount Meru and the four directional halls for the four continents.
52 km from central Lhasa, straight line
A group of caves on the hill behind Samye, where Padmasambhava and others went into retreat. Monks and nuns still live in the caves for long periods.
81 km from central Lhasa, straight line
One of the early monasteries from the time of Songtsen Gampo. Its treasure is a Guanyin thangka stitched with close to 30,000 pearls.
165 km from central Lhasa, straight line
The nine-storey tower that Milarepa piled up alone on his teacher's order. His songs appear in many languages, and he is among the Tibetan Buddhist figures best known to Western readers.
168 km from central Lhasa, straight line
The Kumbum, a nine-storey pagoda-shaped building with 108 chapels, holds over 100,000 statues and murals. Sakya, Gelug and Kadam schools share one monastery, which is rare in Tibet.
222 km from central Lhasa, straight line
The Panchen Lama's monastery at Shigatse, holding a gilt-bronze Maitreya 26.2 m high, recorded as the largest figure of its kind in the world.
Distances
| # | Sight | Type | Straight line |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ganden Monastery | Buddhist Temple | 36 km |
| 2 | Samye Monastery | Buddhist Temple | 52 km |
| 3 | Chimpu Hermitage | Buddhist Site | 52 km |
| 4 | Trandruk Monastery | Buddhist Temple | 81 km |
| 5 | Sekhar Guthok | Buddhist Temple | 165 km |
| 6 | Palcho Monastery | Buddhist Temple | 168 km |
| 7 | Tashilhunpo Monastery | Heritage Site | 222 km |
Straight-line distances from the centre of Lhasa. Road and rail distances are longer.
Independent Travel
Arranging these 7 stops yourself keeps the budget lower. It also means booking each one and the transfers between them. Compare a private tour with independent travel, or ask PreeChina to plan it.
Custom Tour
This route is a starting point: 1 day and 7 stops. PreeChina plans it as a private, tailor-made trip and changes the stops, the days and the pace to your group.
Questions
This page lists 7, all within 222 km of central Lhasa in a straight line.
Ganden Monastery, at 36 km from the centre in a straight line.
222 km in a straight line. The road distance is longer.
It depends on which sights you combine. Your private itinerary sets the number of days, the order and the pace with you.
A traveler who cannot manage long transfers or limited facilities. This route runs through a remote region, so plan for long travel days and a slower pace.
Explore More
This route is in Tibet. The province page lists its city guides, themes, museums and other routes.
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Tell us when you arrive in Lhasa, who is travelling and how much time you have. We build the route around your group.
