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Your Guide to Visit the Everest Base Camp

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Everest Base Camp

This article, a complete guide to visit the Everest North Base Camp, was written by Harley Greenberg, who arrived in China in 2008 as a Peace Corps Volunteer. When not teaching he would always crisscross the country and his first visit to Tibet was in 2009. Today Harley is a manager at WindHorseTour.

Your Guide to Visit the Everest Base Camp – Index

  1. Can you visit Tibet on your own?
  2. When to visit the Everest
  3. How many days do you need to visit Everest Base Camp?
  4. Should you join a private or a group tour?
  5. How to get to Mount Everest
  6. The most popular route: Lhasa to Kathmandu via Everest Base Camp
  7. Food and Guest Houses at Base Camp
  8. What to do at Everest Base Camp?
  9. Frequently asked questions
  10. Need a travel agency for Tibet? Ask a free quotation

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Tibet Tours and Everest Base Camp Tours – Tips and Agencies

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Tour in Tibet

Tours to Tibet and the Everest Base Camp – Index

  1. What documents you need to visit Tibet
  2. What kind of agency you should choose in order to travel to Tibet
  3. The differences between a private and a group tour
  4. The best time period to visit Tibet
  5. The most popular Tibet tours and how many days you’ll need
  6. How to minimize altitude sickness
  7. Frequently asked questions
  8. Need a travel agency? Ask a free quotation

Before you begin

I took a Tibet tour in 2010, so most of what you’ll read on this page comes from personal experience. First of all, though I started my article on Beijing Tours explaining in which cases you should take a tour and in which cases you shouldn’t take a tour to Beijing, when it comes to Tibet, things are different. Why?

Because nowadays if you want to visit Tibet, you need a “Tibet Entry Permit” and only a licensed travel agency can provide you with it. Also, you aren’t allowed to travel by yourself in Tibet: you need a travel guide. Therefore, the only way to legally travel to Tibet is to join a tour with a licensed travel agency.

If you’ve already decided to book a Tibet tour but you aren’t sure what travel agency to choose, we can suggest a reliable agency to you Click here to contact us and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible.

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How to Organize Your Trip to Tibet as a Foreigner

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Travel to Tibet: Our Guide – Index

  1. Why it’s compulsory to join a travel tour to visit Tibet, what the Tibet Permit is and how to get it
  2. How to spot a good travel agency
  3. How much does it cost a trip to Tibet?
  4. The pros and cons of reaching Tibet by train (instead of flying)
  5. Planning your trip: how long to stay, what to visit and when to visit Tibet
  6. Some general advices
  7. Frequently asked questions

If you want to book a Tibet tour but you aren’t sure what travel agency to choose we can suggest you a reliable agency. Click here to contact us and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible.

p.s. For more in-depth information on traveling around China (insurances, vaccines, ATMs, internal flights, common scams, internet, food, etc.) you may have a look at my complete guide to travel to China. It’s massive, around 4,000 words, but you don’t need to read it all, just jump on the sections you find interesting to you. You can also download a travel phrasebook Chinese-English. [Read more…]

Mount Kailash Tour – All You Need to Know Before planning a trip to Mount Kailash

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Travel to Mount Kailash

This article was written by Harley Greenberg, manager at WindHorseTour.

In this article, I would like to share all you need to know before you plan your trip to Mount Kailash.

P.s. If you are just looking for a tour quotation, you can click here and head directly to the tour form. We will put you in touch with a tour agency based in China, which specializes in tours in Tibet.
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Tibetan monasteries and a revolution on the bus – Photo Essays

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Tibeta Monastery

This article tells the last part of my travel to Tibet. If you didn’t read them yet, in the first two episodes you can learn about my adventures in Lhasa or virtually exploring the The holy lakes of Tibet.

The day after visiting the Namtso lake we get again on the bus and start our trip from Lhasa to Shigatse. We arrive at Yamdrok lake around 1 pm and to the Kharola Glacier a couple of hours later (see photos below).

Nobody told us where Shigatse was nor how much time would take to get there. So I wasn’t psychologically prepared to stay all day in a bus. The truth is that Tibet is huge and it takes time to move to a place to another. Is it worth the effort? Yep, for me it is! [Read more…]

The Holy Lakes of Tibet (Photo Essays)

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Holy Lakes of Tibet

Before to visit a country, or a region, we all have a general idea of what to expect. And, unless we research our trip in advance, this idea is usually wrong.

I was expecting to find a barren land composed by mountains and rocks in Tibet. Conversely, the Eastern Tibet plateau is a green land where Lakes act as the main character.

There are nine Holy Lakes in Tibet. Today I want to focus on the two that I was able to visit, Namtso Lake and Yamdrok Lake. They are, together with Manasarovar Lake, the most famous lakes of Tibet. [Read more…]

What do you expect from Lhasa, the capital of Tibet?

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Travel to LhasaPotala Palace view’s from Jokhang Temple

When I arrived in Lhasa all I could think about was that I needed a shower. I got there by train and it was two days that I couldn’t get one.

Beside that, I felt a sense of accomplishment. When I was a teenager I could imagine myself traveling to Paris, or even Los Angeles… after all I had seen these place in so many movies. It seemed possible.

But going to Tibet? No way.

Then again, sometimes reality goes beyond fantasy and here I was, at 3,650 meters of altitude, just in front of the exit of Lhasa’s train station.

Are we missing anyone?

The third thing I thought was “Where the hell is our tour guide?”

It was two days that I didn’t see him (since we left from Beijing) and I’m not used to follow a guide. But you aren’t allow to travel to Tibet by yourself, as I’ve explained on my guide to Tibet. So here I was… looking for our chubby Tibetan guide. [Read more…]