DAY 01

Arrival to Kathmandu. Transfer to hotel. O/N hotel

DAY 02

This day, we get your Visa processed in Monday, Wednesday, or Friday). Also check the motorcycles and spare parts etc.

DAY 03

Drive to Kodari (Nepal - Tibet border). Drive to ZHANGMU (1900m) then to NYALAM (3800m). O/N GUEST HOUSE

DAY 04

Drive to Tingri (approx 160 km) 4000m.
After breakfast we will start easy ride up, there is the main checkpost to enter further up at Nyalam. We will be visiting Milarepa's cave enroute. One can ride to Lhatze (300 km) this day but we are treating this trip as a pleasant journey, spending the night in Tingri makes you more comfortable having the great views of the Himalayas in the South including Mt. Everest. Overnight at a guest house

DAY 05

Tingri - Lhatze (approx 150 km); 3900m
The riding is pleasant, you will be passing a 5220 meters pass called "Gyatso La" today and continueing riding down to the fertile valley of Lhatze for tonight stay at a local guest house.

DAY 06

Lhatze - Xigatse (approx 150 km); 4000m
A typical day riding between the villages to Xigaze or Shigatse, the second largest city of Tibet . The ride today is across Yulung La (4950 metres), over fairly unpaved roads in the plateau area. After reaching Shigatse, we will transfer you in a better hotel and relax. If interested, you can visit the "Tashilhumpo Monastery", a vast monastery with its own streets, housing sectors, plazas, back alleys and complex of temples and halls

DAY 07

Shigatse - Gyantse (90 Km); 4000m
Your drive on to Gyantse takes us through intensely agricultural, cultivated areas. Much of the gravel road is lined with poplar trees, which are a distinctly Tibetan feature. The drive on this day is just 90 km but, if interested, you can drive to the small, picturesque village of Kardoi from Gyantse (120 km round trip). This excursion will also take you to an old castle, Kumbum and Palcho Chode monastery. The hotel in Gyantse has good facilities, like the one in Shigats

DAY 08

Gyantse - Lhasa (280 km) via the Yamdrok Tso
You will drive mostly on a paved road, though there is an off-road route from Gyantse to the turquoise Lake "Yamdrok Tso". You will be crossing the high pass of "Karo La" at 5050m then continue your drive to Lhasa. On arriving you may feel as though we have left Tibet and entered China , for the Chinese influence - signs, people on the street, development - is ever more pervasive. And upon reaching Lhasa itself, you will see the suffocation of the old Tibet by the new layers of Chinese infrastructure, covering nearly 100% of the city. Lhasa is a sprawling, modern Chinese city with polluted air and horn-honking traffic congestion but we will stay there for two full days to acclimatise and take in the awe-inspiring Potala and other parts of thisr World heritage site Elevation - 3650 metre

DAY 09

Sightseeing tours in and around Lhasa
Riding around Lhasa visiting the various interesting sites ( Potala Palace , Sera monastery, Drepung Monastery, Norbulingka palace etc

DAY 10

Lhasa - Shigatse (250 Km)
Your riding today will be on paved road. After having breakfast we'll follow the riverbed of the Kyi Chu River , this is the same way back until road adjacent to a bridge at the Brahmaputra valley. Then we take the straight highway riding on the riverbed of the "Yarlung Tsangpo" to Shigatse, stay at the hotel

DAY 11

Shigatse - Xegar (250 km); 4400m
After a good breakfast, we start riding from Shigatse to Lhatse then ascent to the Gyatso La-5220m, finally descend into Xegar and stay in a Everest View hotel (luxurious accommodation after Shigatse

DAY 12

Xegar - Rongbuk - Everest Base camp - Rongbuk (approx. 130 Km)
Today you will find much excitement. Here starts the taste of the "Top of the World"; the remoteness shows the real beauty of the area that makes you pride of your awaiting since long time. Riding through the remoteness you will be ascending to the Rongbuk.Excursion to Everest base camp- 5200m and back to Rongbuk and overnight stay at Rongbuk Guest house

DAY 13

Rongbuk - Tinri - Nyalam - Overnight at Nyalam

DAY 14

Nyalam - Zhangmu - Kathmandu
One hour drive to Zhangmu. Complete the Chinese Immigration and border formalities. The permits and motorcycles are checked once again and then we drive down 8 kilometers to Kodari and the Nepal Tibet Friendship Bridge. Cross the Friendship Bridge, complete Nepal Customs and Immigration and drive 4 hours to Kathmandu. We will check the motorcycles at the workshop and then transfer to the hotel. O/n at Hotel

DAY 15

Free day in Kathmandu for souvenir shopping & independent activities

DAY 16

Transfer to the airport and fly out of Kathmandu