Day 1 Lhasa Gonggar Airport Parking Lot

Your tour guide and driver will meet you at Lhasa Airport and take you back to your hotel. The remaining time is free to relax and acclimate to the altitude.

The next day Jokhang Temple Potala Palace

The Jokhang Temple is located in the center of the old city of Lhasa and is a Tibetan Buddhist temple. The temple was originally called "Jhasa", and later "Jhasa" became the name of the city and evolved into the current "Lhasa". After the Jokhang Temple was built, it underwent repeated modifications and expansions in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties before it reached its current scale. The Jokhang Temple combines Tibetan, Tang, Nepalese and Indian architectural styles and has become an eternal model of Tibetan religious architecture. Incense is lingering in front of the temple all day long, and believers devoutly kowtow, leaving deep marks of their own kowtows on the bluestone floor in front of the temple. Thousands of butter lamps are always bright, leaving traces of time and pilgrims.

The Potala Palace is located on Maburi Mountain in the northwest of Lhasa, the capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. It is a palace-style building complex. It is said that it was built by Zampu Songtsan Gampo of the Tubo Dynasty to marry Princess Chizun and Princess Wencheng; One theory is that it was built as the royal palace after Songtsen Gampo moved his capital to Lhasa. After being rebuilt in the 17th century, it became the winter palace residence of the Dalai Lamas of all generations and the political and religious ruling center of Tibet. In 1961, the Potala Palace became one of the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units designated by the State Council of the People's Republic of China. In 1994, the Potala Palace was listed as a World Cultural Heritage. The main buildings of the Potala Palace are the White Palace and the Red Palace.

Day 3 Norbulingka Drepung Monastery Sera Monastery

Norbulingka is a national key cultural relic protection unit located in the western suburbs of Lhasa, Tibet. First built in the 1840s (Dalai VII), it is the place where Dalai Lamas of all generations spent their summers and managed affairs. It is a typical Tibetan style garden. After more than 200 years of expansion, the park covers an area of 360,000 square meters. There are more than 100 species of plants in the park, including not only common flowers and trees in Lhasa, but also exotic flowers and plants taken from the northern and southern foothills of the Himalayas, as well as plants from the mainland. The rare flowers transplanted or imported from abroad can be called a plateau botanical garden.

Drepung Monastery is a monastery of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism in China. Together with Ganden Monastery and Sala Monastery, it is known as the three major temples in Lhasa. It is located at the foot of Genpi Uzi Mountain in the western suburbs of Lhasa. The entire temple is large in scale, with row upon row of white buildings covering the hillside. From a distance, it looks like a huge pile of rice, hence the name Drepung. Drepung, which means "gathering of rice" in Tibetan, symbolizes prosperity. Its full name in Tibetan means "auspicious accumulation of rice in ten directions and the glorious continent". It is the highest-status monastery in the Gelug Sect.

The full name of Sera Temple is "Sela Mahayana Temple", one of the six main temples of the Gelug Sect of Tibetan Buddhism. Together with Drepung Monastery and Ganden Monastery, it is known as the three major monasteries in Lhasa. It is the latest one to be built among the three major monasteries.

Day 4 Lhasa Gonggar Airport

Your driver will pick you up at your hotel and transfer you to the airport.