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Day 1 19 June … Saturday Arrival to Kathmandu – shopping – night stay THE WORLD UNITED presents

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Page 1: Day 1 19 June …Saturday Arrival to Kathmandu – shopping – night stay THE WORLD UNITED presents

Day 1 19 June …Saturday

Arrival to Kathmandu – shopping – night stay

THE WORLD UNITED presents

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Day 220 June …Sunday

Sight Seeing at Kathmandu Pashupatinath – Budhanilikantha – Swayambhu Buddha etc

The city stands at an elevation of approximately 1,400 metres (4,600 ft) in the bowl-shaped valley in central Nepal surrounded by four major mountains, namely: Shivapuri, Phulchowki, Nagarjun and Chandragiri

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Day 321 June …Monday

Flight fromKathmandu to Lhasa with aerial view of Himlayan ranges including Mt Everest ( depending on the weather condition )…arrival to Lhasa….shopping and night stay

Aerial view of Mt Everest

The travel from Kathmandu to Lhasa by flight is 400 USD and this is part of the package

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Day 522 June…Tuesday

Sight seeing in Lhasa Potala Palace,

Jorkhang, Ancient Monastaries including

Drepung

Shopping and night stay at Lhasa

Lhasa has many sites of historic interest, including the Potala Palace, Jokhang Temple, Sera Monastery, Zhefeng Temple, Drepung Monastery and Norbulingka.

The innermost, the Nangkor (N

ang-skor), is

contained within the Jokhang Temple, and

surrounds the sanctuary of th

e Jowo

Shakyamuni, the most sacred statue in

Tibetan Buddhism.

Perched upon Marpo Ri hill, 130 meters above the Lhasa valley, the Potala Palace rises a further 170 meters and is the greatest monumental structure in all of Tibet. Early legends concerning the rocky hill tell of a sacred cave, considered to be the dwelling place of the Bodhisattva Chenresi (Avilokiteshvara)

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Day 523 June…wednesday

Drive from Lhasa to Lhatse along the Lhatse river

Lhatse (Quxar), is a small town of a few thousand people in Tibet, 151 km southwest of Shigatse, and just west of the mountain pass leading to it. Lhatse is 4,050 m. (13,287 ft) above sea-level

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Day 624 June…thursday

Drive from Lhatse to Saga

Saga (happy land) is an army town with a Chinese garrison which patrols the whole length of the Tibetan-Nepalese border

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Day 725 June…friday

Drive from Saga to Prayang

Beyond Prayang, there are several river crossings to negotiate before we see our first view of Mount Kailash from Horr Chu Pass. We then arrive at the beautiful Lake Manasarovar, just 30km south of Mt Kailash

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Day 826 June …saturday

Drive to Horque …one bank of Manasarovar

Fullmoon Day at the Lake

Horque which is near to eastern bank of Mansarovar is Located at height of 4530 mtrs

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Day 927 June…sunday

Dip in the lake and drive around the lake to reach the other bank at Chiu Gampa and night stay

Lake Manasarovar lies at 4,556 m (14947.5 ft) above mean sea level, making it the highest fresh-water lake in the world. [It is relatively round in shape with a circumference of 88 kilometres (55 mi). Its depth is 90 m (300 ft) and its surface area is 320 square kilometres (120 sq mi). Manasarovar is the source of the Sutlej River which is the easternmost large tributary of the Indus. Nearby are the sources of the Brahmaputra River, the Indus River, and the Karnali River (Ghaghara) which is an important tributary of the Ganges River

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Day 1028 June…monday

Arriving Darchen, the base camp of Kailash

It is believed in spiritual circles that there are so many Physical Immortals around this place

Darchen is located beneath the majestic holy Mount Kailash, a small village with couple of guest houses. During the auspicious pilgrimage time, this place will be flooded with Pilgrims with hundreds of tents all around. Darchen, the beginning and end point of the Kora

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Day 1129 June…tuesday

Kailash Parikrama starts from Darchen …Yamadwar to Dira-puk

All thru the Parkrama…one will be seeing the Mt Kailash

Everyone comes to Kailash to walk the kora, the sacred circuit around the mountain, which is probably the world's best walk

Those who cannot take Parikrama can stay back at Darchen and can spend time for visiting some nearby places…the crew will be split to take care

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Day 1230 June…wednesday

Second day of the parikrama…the tough part…to Zutul-phuk via Dolmala pass

The word Kailāśā means "crystal" in Sanskrit. The Tibetan name for the mountain is Gangs Rin-po-che, meaning "precious jewel of snows". Another local name for the mountain is Tisé… mountain, which derives from ti tse in the Zhang-Zhung language, meaning "water peak" or "river peak".

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Day 131st July…thursday

Short trek and drive to Darchen

According to Hinduism, Lord Shiva, the destroyer of evil and sorrow, resides at the summit of a legendary mountain named Kailāśā, where he sits in a state of perpetual meditation along with his wife Pārvatī, the daughter of Himalaya.

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Day 142nd July…friday

Drive from Darchen to Saga

A great mass of black rock soaring to over 22,000 feet, Mt. Kailash has the unique distinction of being the world's most venerated holy place at the same time that it is the least visited. The supremely sacred site of four religions and billions of people, Kailash is seen by no more than a few thousand pilgrims each year

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Day 153rd July…saturday

Drive from Saga to Nyalam and visit to Milarepa’s Cave

Milarepa's Cave or Namkading Cave is a cave where the great Tibetan Buddhist philosopher, and Vajrayana Mahasiddha, Milarepa spent many years of his life in the eleventh century, 11 km north of the town of Nyalam, below the roadside and above the Matsang river in Nyalam County, Tibet

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Day 164th July…sunday

Arriving Zhangamu…clearance of chinese immigration and driveback to Kathmandu

Zhangmu or Nepali: Khasa), is a customs town and port of entry located in Nyalam County on the Nepal - Tibet border, just uphill and across the Bhote Kosi River from the Nepalese town of Koda

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Day 175th July…Monday

Departure and transfer to the airport at Kathmandu

For details contact 099086 52789Email : [email protected]

PS: There will be 3 guides…Indian, Nepalese and the Tibetan…through out the trip & 1 sherpa for every 3 persons during the Parikrama apart from cooks ( nepalese who prepares veg. food ) and other crew

This trip is for ONLY 25 peopleWho are spiritually inclined