Mount Kailash and Guge Kingdom tour starts and end at Kathmandu Nepal. It is the great opportunity to explore both the countries Natural Nepal and ancient Tibet. You also have option to visit Mount Kailash and Guge Kingdom from Lhasa. 16 days tour plan including your visit some of the UNESCO heritage sites in Kathmandu until your Tibetan visa is not ready. This is important that to get ready final Tibetan visa takes 3 working days in Kathmandu. Another benefit to start your Kailash Guge tour from Nepal is Tibetan visa. You do not need to take any Chinese or Tibetan visa from your country. Nepal Highland Treks look after entire permits and Tibetan visa with your passport copy by email and at the end your original passport before 4 days in Kathmandu Nepal. This tour can customize tour itinerary and have option of joining our small group tour. The best season starts from May and goes till October month.

Entire tour is driving tour. Immigration between Nepal and Tibet is about 145 kilometers. After your interested visit in Kathmandu valley, day fourth is to drive interesting hilly reason through famous Langtang national park. Guide from Nepal highland treks will manage entire immigration formalities in immigration of Nepal and Tibet. You will be than transfer to Tibetan guide and driver. Elevation suddenly grow up by reaching first Tibetan town Kerung after 24 kilometers. You will spend whole day there to get well acclimatization. The scenic landscapes and visit some of the famous monasteries on the way in typical Tibetan settlement. You will pass stunning mountain gorges, the majestic Lake Mansarovar and your journey to the ancient Guge Kingdom. After visiting the Guge area, back to Kailash region. Three days walking around Mount Kailash, stay overnight near the fresh water Lake and one of the holy place, Lake Mansarovar. Drive same way back to Nepal.

Entire nights are staying in best available hotels, guest houses and mud houses. Good hotels are provided in Kathmandu. Tibetan towns Kerung, Saga, Darchen provides comfortable hotels. Simple mud houses are provided in Lake Mansarovar, during Kailash trekking and in Guge kingdom. Good vegetarian or non-vegetarian Chinese style restaurants are in every town. Only simple Tibetan restaurants are available in Mansarovar, during Kailash kora in Derapuk and Juthulpuk.

Itinerary adding Everest Base Camp

Mount Kailash and Guge Kingdom tour, another attraction can include is Everest Base Camp from Tibet site. It is more two days plans that makes your total days of the tour is 18 days. While returning back from Kailash and Guge, Everest base camp can reach from Saga. Drive Saga to Tingri and overnight. From Tingri to Ronbuk monastery to overnight at explore Everest Base Camp. Everest north base Camp north is 5150 meters altitude. Transportation reach up to Ronbuk monastery and we got to walk about three kilometers to reach the base camp. Eco bus from the government also available from Ronbuk to get base camp. There could be changes in the rules and regulation for EBC, we need to make sure at the time of booking or travelling there. Cost after adding base camp in the tour is extra.

Client Reviews

From Kathmandu to Kailash, Manasarovar and Guge Kingdom
Mount Kailash and Guge is a trip I dreamt of, for a whole life and Nepal Highland Treks made it come true. The tour started 18th aug and finished 5th sep. We had 6 full days (5 at the start and 1 at the end) in Kathmandu including a guided tour with english speaking guide and driver to the main local spots. Waiting to leave for Kailash we also visited Kathmandu valley and walked to other capital city's attractions. Driving from Kathmandu to Tibet during rain season at the end of august can be difficult because of landslides, floods and terrible road conditions. Get ready to make a "bumpy" ride in your car for hours and to cross active landslides by foot while another vehicle and driver awaits on the other side. Adventurous and a bit dangerous! You'll need to cross Nepal-China border by foot for 1,5 km with your bags (unless you pay a porter). After we passed the border we met with a tibetan guide and driver from a partnder tibetan travel agency: the amazing duo proved to be very professional, positive, lively, kind, caring and also guide Pema is good in english. Always save some money for a good tip!
Kailash Kora and Manasarovar were unique experiences and also Guge Kingdom is worth all the kms you'll have to drive: Tsaparang frescoes are amazing! When in remote places like lake and mountains all the accomodation will be poor or simple while for the rest of the tour we always had a good hotel or guesthouse: the guide gave committment to provide us the best even when huge groups of indians were taking every available bed. Trekking is quite hard but rewarding, maybe the worst part of a trip like this is to stay in car for hours. All the vehicles we used were very comfortable and also food is very good, fresh and tasty (nepalese in Kathmandu, chinese or tibetan dishes in Tibet). Food is an extra cost you'll have to pay except breakfast which is included every day. Expect to spend from 10-15 $ a day. I suggest you to use various layers of technical clothes and to make use of Diamox or other diuretics starting to take 2 pills/day 2 days before going to a higher altitude. You can empower it with Ginco Biloba pills. You'll need to drink a lot, to eat good food and don't strain your body.
Hemanta, agency boss, is always nice, kind and very present. I strongly recommend this agency for your travels
FabioItaly,November 01, 2018