This is an inspiring cultural tour that leads you to three Himalayan kingdoms of Tibet, Nepal, and Bhutan in a single package. This trio tour is one of best tours which leads you through an adventurous trip over these nations that exhibits the unique culture, natural wonders, spiritual and environmental diversities. This tour completes within 16 days and be your best journey traveling to the Himalayan countries at a time.
First, we will be sightseeing Tibet by visiting the splendid Potala Palace, Norbulingka, Tibetan museums and explore the Namtso Lake. This lake is the highest salt water lake surrounded by beautiful Himalayan mountains. At Lhasa, we will be visiting several monasteries like Sera Monastery, Drepung Monastery, Jokhang Temple and last but not least, we wander around Barkhor Bazaar and end our tour in Tibet.
Next, we take an airstrip to Kathmandu for visiting several heritage sites like the Durbar Square, Swayambhunath temple, the Pashupatinath temple, and the Boudhanath stupa. We then drive to Bhaktapur - an alluring city which offers lots of local products. We will be sightseeing the Bhaktapur city and then drive to Changu Narayan temple which is one of the oldest temples of Kathmandu. Our drive would be to Nagarkot, near the village of Bhaktapur to get the splendid Himalayan views and if you wish to see the sunset and sunrise, we can also extend a day here.
Our next tour will be in Bhutan taking a scenic airstrip to Paro where we will be visiting memorial chorten, zoo, nunnery temple, heritage museums and Tashi Dzong. Next, we drive to Punakha to visit Chimilhangkahang temple, Punakha Dzong and the oldest temple Kichulhangkhang. We also make a hike to the most famous monastery of Bhutan i.e. Taktsang monastery which has a legend that the spiritual guru Rimpoche mediated in this cave riding in the back of a tiger. Hence, it is also recognized as Tiger Nest Monastery. It is located on the high cliff at 3180 meters. Finally, our trip to these Himalayan country comes to an end and we depart to our destination.
This tour can be done all year round according to your vacation schedule. As we are only touring, there is no such exact period and trekking to high hills is easily achievable. If you want to inquire more about this trip, please feel free to email or contact us.
Below we enlist our day to day route for this tour: