3-Day Lhasa Standard Tour

- Potala Palace / Jokhang Temple / Drepung Monastery

Trip Highlights - Attractions Involved: Lhasa Potala Palace, Tibet Museum, Jokhang Temple, Tibetan Hospital, Drepung Monastery. This 3-Day Lhasa Standard Tour is a perfectly arranged itinerary with what this mysterious place has to offer. Tibet is an eternal topic and dreams of so many people with its unique high attitude, exotic culture, unique highland landscapes, and friendly people. Situated at the foot of Mount Gephel, Lhasa is one of the highest cities in the world and has so many famous sites. The unique culture, mysterious religion and splendid plateau landscape are all waiting for your discovery.
Tour Availability: All Year Round.          Tour Destinations: Lhasa.          Tour Duration: 3 Days.

Tour Itinerary: (B-Breakfast, L-Lunch, D-Dinner)
Day 01: Arrive in Lhasa
You will arrive at the Airport and be greeted by your tour guide. Then you will be driven to your hotel in Lhasa and have a rest to adapt the high altitude.
Hotel: Lhasa Hotel 4 star (or similar class)

Day 02: Lhasa (B/L/D)
In the morning, your guide will pick you up from your hotel. Your Lhasa tour will start from the Tibetan Hospital to learn some Tibetan Traditional medicine. And then Jokhang Temple, located on Barkhor Square, is the most sacred and intensely spiritual holy temple in Tibet for most Tibet. After lunch, you will visit the Potala Palace, the most widely recognized symbol of Tibet. It is a large-scale castle style palace complex which just like a museum where you can understand Tibet culture vividly. Afterwards you will visit the Drepung Monastery, one of the six major Tibetan Buddhist Temple of Gelug Sect and the largest temple in the world. At then, you will be sent back to hotel.
Hotel: Lhasa Hotel 4 star (or similar class)

Day 03: Depart from Lhasa (B)
If there is enough time you will visit The Tibetan Museum before being taken to the airport for flight.
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Attraction Description
Potala Palace was originally built to honor the marriage of the 33rd King of Tibet, Soongtsan Gampo to Princess Wen Cheng of the Tang Dynasty. After the reconstruction in 17th century, the Potala had been Dalai Lama's residence and the theocracy center of politics and religion center of Tibet until the 14th Dalai Lama fled to Dharamsala, India, after an invasion and failed uprising in 1959...
Jokhang Temple also known as Jokhang Monastery was built in 647 during Tang Dynasty by craftsmen from Tibet, China and Nepal during the reign of King Soongtsen Gampo. It is presently controlled by the Yellow Hat Sect, different sects of Tibetan Buddhism...
Drepung Monastery is the largest of all Tibetan monasteries and is located on the Gambo Utse mountain with an elevation of 3800 meters, 10 kilometers from the western suburb of Lhasa. The Drepung Monastery was founded by Jamyang Chojey Tashi-pelden...