Trek type: Camping/ Hotel/ Lodge/ Guesst house
Trek Grade: Challenging Duration: 22 days (16 days Tour)
Activities: Trekking, camping, sightseeing )
Best time to go: June (March/April/September)
Departure dates: Iterniery as below

Festival will take place at Tarboche on the first day of trekking. This is the most important festival of Mt Kailash, celebrating the enlightenment of Buddha. It takes place every year at full moon of the fourth lunar month. A giant flagpole is ritually taken down and the prayer flags are changed for new ones. After the flagpole is upright again, the Tibetans try to tell the future by watching its position. If the pole is erected straight it will mean happiness for all of Tibet .

Itinerary

Day 01: May 19, 2009: Arrival in Kathmandu .

Day 02: May 20, 2009: Preparation and arrangement of Tibet Travel permit

Day 03: May 21, 2009: Proceed from Katmandu to Shegar in Tibet

Day 04: May 22, 2009: From Shegar to Rombuk

Day 05: May 23, 2009: Trek to Everest base camp and back

Day 06: May 24, 2009: From Rombuk to Shegar

Day 07: May 25, 2009: From Shegar to Saga via Latze

Day 08: May 26, 2009: From Saga to Paryang

Day 09: May 27, 2009: From Paryang to Darchen

Day 10: May 28, 2009: Start of the Kora (Camp)

Day 11: May 29, 2009: Continue of the Kora (Camp)

Day 12: May 30, 2009: Continue and end of the Kora in Darchen

Day 13: May 31, 2009: Attend to the Saga Dawa festival

Day 14: June 01, 2009: Leave for Tholing and Tsaparang monasteries

Day 15: June 02, 2009: Visit of the monasteries

Day 16: June 03, 2009: Back to Manasarovar

Day 17: June 04, 2009: From Manasarovar to Paryang

Day 18: June 05, 2009: From Paryang to Saga

Day 19: June 06, 2009: From Saga to Shegar via Latze

Day 20: June 07, 2009: From Shegar to Katmandu

Day 21: June 08, 2009: Visit Katmandu

Day 22: June 09, 2009: Departure for the next destination. 

Cost :US$ 2755

Cost Includes: 4 night hotel accommodation in Kahtmandu on BB plan, Guide, Cook, Kitchen crew, Tibetan English Spoken Guide, all necessary private land transportation, food: Breakfast, lunch, snacks and dinner, accommodation in lodge and tent during whole trip, yaks for Kailash Kora, Tibet travel permit, insurance of trek/tour crew.

Cost not included : Bar bills, drinks, personal nature expenses, monastery entrance and photography charge, health and travel insurance, emergency evacuation (like porter charge in landslides or snow blocked), Any cost of Kathmandu except accommodation on BB plan and tips.