Yamdrok lake trekking is one of the best and beautiful short trekking tour in Tibet which allows you to visit most important religious sites in Tibet as well as beautiful mountain views, Tibetan traditional villages, nomadic and farmers’ life and different kinds of wild lives.
Yamdrok lake trekking takes you from 3650m elevation to the highest elevation of Jeshul la pass which is above 5000mts. You will get the happiest experience to witness the Tibetan nomadic life and moreover during your trek, you will get to communicate with the Tibetan local people to get more authentic and special attachment with them.
This Tibet trek
gives you the chance to have extraordinary experience of visit isolated
monasteries, villages, towns, mountain view, farms, courtyard, beautiful yaks,
horses, sheep, and sometimes you will see the beautiful wild animals like blue
sheep, wolves, foxes, antelope etc……
HIGHLIGHTS
OF YAMDROK LAKE TREKKING
You are going to spend three days in Lhasa including arrival day, to visit the spectacular Potala Palace which is the most holy pilgrimage site, originally built by the great King Songtsen Gonpo. The famous Jokhang Temple, the most sacred Temple situated in the center of Lhasa. Both are listed in the UNESCO sites.
Walk around Bakhor Bazaar where you will encounter hundreds of Tibetan people doing kora around Jokhang Temple. Visit Sera and Drepung monastery.
You can have a short hike around Sera Monastery which will help you to have good impact on acclimatization to high altitude. You will also meet many Tibetans, circumambulating around Sera Monastery.
Within those 3 days, you will get great time to be acclimatized which can have great significant for your up heading trekking trail for few days.
Driving from Lhasa along the Kyichu and Brahmaputra rivers and head towards Drathang fresco monastery which will take you around 2 and half hr. On the way, you will see beautiful Tibet villages, surrounded by greenery barley field and trees.
DRATHANG MONASTERY
was established as a kadam institution by Drakpa Ngonshe and it has the most
beautiful wall painting which has more than a thousand years history.
On the way to
LANGTHANG DEWACHEN, visit DUPUE CHOKOR MONASTERY and eventually reach to camp
site at Langthang Dewachen, from there trek to BUMTHANG MONASTERY and back to
campsite.
Next day you are
going to trek to the hip of Jesul la Pass where you are going to set the camp
and from there you can see the courtyard of sheep and yaks. Then next day, trek
towards JESHUL LA PASS with the elevation of above 5000mts, from there you see
the amazing YAMDROK LAKE also known as Turquoise Lake and KURLA MOUNTAIN.
Then trek to
KANGRU MONASTERY which have more than hundreds of years history but these days you
will find only few monks and nuns. The camp site near monastery which is full
of grassland where we can see the animals grazing.
From the top of PENZELA 4650m, you can have a beautiful view of Yamdrok Lake as well. On the way back to Lhasa, you will visit TAKLUNG MONASTERY and SAMDING MONASTERY.
YAMDROK
LAKE TREKKING ASCEND AND DESCENT
Drive from Lhasa through Yarlung River to Drathang Fresco for around 2 and half hr. drive, visit Drathang monastery and then continue drive for about 1 hr. towards Langthang Dewachen, on the way, you can see the big farm and visit Dupue Chokor monastery. Now your Yamdrok lake trekking starts from Langthang Dewachen where you are going to set the camp.
You
will trek to Bumthang Monastery for 1 hr. walk back and forth. The trail is slightly
ascent and then descent. There you will see beautiful Tibetan villages and
farms etc…..
From
Langthang Dewachen campsite, you will have the extraordinary and unique
experience with Tibet Shambhala Adventure i.e. you get to watch the sky filled
with beautiful stars in the night and visit a Tibetan family to see how the
Tibetan farmers’ houses.
Today
you are going to trek to Lhemachen, which will take 6 hours ascent walk to
reach Lhemachen from Langthang Dewachen and you will camp at Lhemachen for the
night to be ready to cross Jeshul la pass for the next day.
Again
ascent to Jesul la with the elevation of above (5000mts) which will take 3 hr.
walk to reach. There have courtyard of sheep and yaks. You will have the view
of nomadic life, yak and sheep courtyard and sometimes you can also see blue
sheep.
From
the top of Jeshul la pass, you will see the beautiful snow caped mountain view
if the weather is clear. You will have the magnificent view of Yamdrok Lake as
well from the top of Jeshul La. Then descent for around 2 hr. walk through
nomad trail to reach Kangru Monastery, visit Kangru monastery and meet our
vehicle in Kangru. From Kangru monastery, if we drive to the camp site at
Yamdrok lake, it will take around 30 min and if we walk, it will take around 2
hours.
Another option of trekking to Yamdrok lake
from Kangru monastery is instead of driving to the lake side, you
can trek through Penzela pass with the elevation of 4650m for around 1 hr and
30 min. ascent and half hr. descent from the top of the Penzela pass.
From
the top of the Penzela pass, you will have an amazing view of Yamdrok Lake with
turquoise in color. There you can see lots of piled stones with scripted Mani
on it. Set the camp at Renposur.
Today,
you are departing from our camping crew and head
towards Lhasa by driving along the Yamdrok Lake anti clockwise direction and
visit Taklung monastery on the way which is a very important Kagyupa monastery
around Yamdrok region.
Taklung
is one of the biggest towns around Yamdrok lake region and it used to be a very
important trading town between Tibet and Bhutan and nowadays it is a township
between Nakartse county and Lhodark county.
After
visiting Taklung monastery, you will continuously drive to Samding monastery which
is situated on the hill side to the west side of Yamdrok lake with an elevation
of 4423m.
There
are 20km back and forth from the main road to head towards Lhasa, visit Samding
monastery and then continue your journey towards Lhasa through Chushul village
and eventually you will reach Lhasa, the holy city of Tibet.
THE
BEST TIME TO DO YAMDROK LAKE TREKKING
When the weather
gets warmer, then it is easier to do hike or trek in Tibet, i.e. from April to
June and September till October is the very best time to do the trekking in
Tibet. July and Aug is the rainy season which is little bit harder to trek in
Tibet since the place will be wet. Summer is also a good time to do trekking in
Tibet since we don’t have heavy rain like in other low altitude countries.
HIGH
ALTITUDE SICKENESS
It is very important to do the full body checkup before planning to do a Tibet Trek because if the clients already have some disease of heart, surgery sickness etc. the doctor will not recommend you to travel to Tibet since it is a high altitude travel destination.
Yamdrok lake
trekking is not a very difficult trek but you still have to pass by the highest
mountain pass called Jeshul La at the elevation of 5000mts and then steep down
the valley to Kangru monastery.
It is very common
to catch a mild symptom of high altitude sickness like headache, dizziness,
insomniac, vomiting etc. it is defer from people to people’s health to get
those symptoms, it is not that everyone have high altitude sickness. Some
people don’t have any problems of high altitude sickness at all. You can
overcome from high altitude sickness in 2-3 days.
For mild symptoms,
you can overcome by eating Tibetan herbal medicine which is very useful. If the
symptom gets worst, then you must go to the hospital. You must eat well like
green leafy vegetables, fruits, drink plenty of water etc. to overcome high
altitude sickness.
Usually, 99% of our clients don’t get altitude problem since we plan a perfect Tibet trekking program and always recommend to spend three nights in Lhasa and drinking a lot of water in order to acclimatize to the altitude.
CAMPING
FOR YAMDROK LAKE TREKKING
You will camp for
4 days in this trekking program. During those days, you will reach the very
pleasant place for camping where you get to see Tibetan Villages, mountains,
lake, nomadic life, Yaks, sheep grazing, courtyards and vast grassland etc….. Our
professional camping crew will arrange you the best chosen place to camp and
serve you the most delicious outdoor meal.
Yamdrok Lake
trekking gives you the new experience of witnessing the historical and
religious site in remote place where the mass tourist normally cannot reach as
well as beautiful Tibetan nomadic life, animals, vast grassland and many piles
stones of Mani…….
Tibet Shambhala Adventure
always try to make a unique and extraordinary Tibet trekking program for e.g. in
this Yamdroke Lake trekking, we have made program where the clients can view the
beautiful stars in the night, visit a Tibetan family, visit a monastery and
communicate with Tibetan monks in order to get more authentic Tibet travel
experience.
We always give the
first priority to our clients by providing extremely the best service to
satisfy our clients all the time.
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