12 days travel through western Sichuan

Chengdu - Rilong - Daofu - Ganzi - Derge - Baiyu - Litang - kangding - Hailuogou glaciers - Chengdu

（to be private tour）

Day01: Chengdu to Rilong town

Meals: B/L/D

Hotel: 3* Siguniang Hotel or same level

Early departure from Chengdu to Rilong, on the way, pass the Wolong Giant Pandas research base at Wolong town. Visit the Giant Pandas there. Going on and climb over the pass of Balangshan mountain. Arrive in Rilong town in the late afternoon.

Day02: Mt. Siguniang sightseeing

Meals: B/L/D

Hotel: 3* Siguniang Hotel or same level

Horse riding or hiking in Haizigou valley, where it is best place to have a grand look of the highest peak.

Day03: Rilong to Tagong

Meals: B/L/D

Hotel: guesthouse

Leaving Rilong town after breakfast, on both side of roads before and after Danba county town, visit local house buildings, which looks like a tower, narrowed up; at Tagong area, visit Tagong Buddhism college; enjoy the grand view of Muya golden pagoda (self pay to go iinside) and enjoy your time strolling around in the wide and open grassland behind the pagoda.

Day04: Tagong to Bamei to Luhuo

Meals: B/L/D

Hotel: local hotel

In the morning while in Tagong, visit Tagong monastery (of Sakyapa sect), then turn back and drive northwards to Ganzi, while at Bamei, visit Huiyuan monastery and enjoy the greens of the Longdeng prairie (between Daofu and Bamei).

Day05: Luhuo to Ganzi

Meals: B/L/D

Hotel: Golden Yak Hotel or same level

In the morning, Visit Linque monastery, which is only about 1.5 kilometers to the north of the town, at Ganzi, pay homage to Ganzi monastery; in the rest of the day, stroll around the city to find out waht are behind the buildings and the newspapers.

Day06: Ganzi to Derge

Meals: B/L/D

Hotel: Derge Hotel or same level

Drive to Derge which is well known for its Buddhism printing house and its historical role in keeping the Buddhism going. On halfway, passing by Manigange where three roads meet (road to the north is to Yushu, road to west is to Derge and Chamdo, the third is to Ganzi) and climbing over the Chola pass (5050m). Visit Xinluhai (also named as Tsolha lake, elevation: 4040 meters).

Day07: Derge sightseeing

Meals: B/L/D

Hotel: Derge Hotel or same level

Visit the famous Derge Printing house, inside which are piles of collection of wood carved boards for printing. Many of the collections are rare in the world. And then visit the Gengqing monastery, which is close to printing house and this monastery belongs to Sakyapa order.

Day08: Derge to Baiyu

Meals: B/L/D

Hotel: Baiyu Hotel or same level

Drive towards the west till the Jinshajiang river, the turn south to Baiyu. On the way, there are two famous and important visits, one is Palpun monastery (of Kagyulpa order), the other is Gatuo (Kotoic) monastery (of Nyingmapa order). Palpunn monastery is the biggest monastery of Kagyulpa in Kham area and also was thought to be one of its three Home monasteries in Tibetan area (the other two are Tsupu monastery in Lhasa and Kagyul monastery in Chamdo); Gatuo monastery is the most important monastery of Nyingmapa in Kham. Choose one to visit.

Day09: Baiyu sightseeing

Meals: B/L/D

Hotel: Baiyu Hotel or same level

At Baiyu, see the impressive Baiyu monastery (of Nyingmapa order), which is on the top of a mountain behind the nice town. The other charms of this town are her style of local houses.

Day10: Baiyu to  to Litang

Meals: B/L/D

Hotel: Litang Hotel or same level

On the way, visit Haizi mountain, which impresses people by its everywhere rocks and small lakes. Haizi mountains are the remnants of glacier movement in geohistory.

At Litang, visit he most famous Litang monastery of Gelupa, in which the 7th Dalai Lama once lived for several years when Tibet was in wars.

Day11: Litang to kangding

Meals: B/L/D

Hotel: 3* Karlarkaer Hotel or same level

At Xinduqiao, enjoy the special local houses, watching the Mt. Gonggha, which is the highest one in Sichuan (7556m), a site for mountaineers.kangding is an important town in the Sichuan -- Tibet highway and the starting point of the ancient Tea and Horse Trading road. It was said kangding was the first city in Tibetan area after leaving Han people inhabited area.

Day12: kangding to Hailuogou

Meals: B/L/D

Hotel: local hotel

Drive to Hailuogou for viewing the spectacular glaciers. At Luding county, visit the Luding iron - chain bridge, in 1930s, the red army jumped out of the blocade of its enemy forces. Driving through the Erlangshan pass to get ot Chengdu. Hailuogou glaciers is the low altitude, low latitude and maritime nature glaciers, which originates from the eastern slope of Mt. Minya Gongga (7556 meters, equal to 24,784ft)

we suggest you leave chengdu for you next destination next day, so, you can have time to get relaxed from this long tour.

End of the tour

Reference tour price: USD2240.00 per person

Price covers:
1. Airfare Lijiang to Kunming
2. All hotel charge through this tour
3. All meals through the tour (breakfasts are served in hotel, lunches and dinners are served outside hotel in local restaurants)
4. All land transfers
5. English speaking guide service through the tour
6. Land travel insurance

Price excludes:
1. Scenic entry admission along the way, you pay when you go and visit
2. Tips to your guide and driver through the tour
3. All personal expenses beyond the tour
4. Expenses and charges caused by natural reasons and elements beyond the control of us (such as flight delay, flight cancellation, street protesting, war, mudslides, low water level affecting ship access, porter service charge if there is, hotel charges beyond the tour above, lose because of air delay or air cancellation)

when the tour ends, but you want to further tours to other parts of Tibet, such as to Gyangtse, Shigatse, Samye monastery, Mount Everest and even exit China into Nepal; based on your tour destination and your holiday, we can arrange you different length of trips. for this, please contact