Code LXAS001 --- Lhasa City Tour One

This Day Tour can be done from 6 hours to 8 hours in total, depending on how much time you have.

Typical Tour would be: 0830am - 0900pm

Time: 1030am - 0730pm

Lhasa is located in the Valley of Yarlung Zangbo at an altitude of 12,319 ft. (3,700m).

Tour will be started at 1030am by first visiting the Barkhor Street, the sacred praying way for Tibetans to follow in a clockwise direction. The most devout would measure the way by prostrating themselves on the ground. They throw their bodies to the ground, stand up, walk a few paces and then throw themselves lengthwise in the dust again. Way down the Barkhor is the Potala Palace. It is nearly 1312 ft. (400m) long in an east-west direction and from north to south it is 1148 ft. ( 350m) long. The thirteen-storied palace covers an area of 1,399,307 sq.ft. (130,000 sq.m) and stands 384 ft.(117m) above the valley.

Lunch will be either back in the hotel or in a selected local restaurant. The body might not want too much to eat because of the altitude, yet it is always advised to take some food and enough water to keep the nutrition balanced in the body.

Afternoon tour will be made to the Norbulingka Garden, some 4 miles (7km) from the city center. Built in the second half of the 18th century on the orders of the 7th Dalai Lama, it was used by the Dalai Lamas as their summer residence which is why the Potala is usually known as the winter palace.

Last visit today will be at the Tibetan Hospital learning how the Tibetans find their way of curing diseases.

Why dogs in Tibet, especially Lhasa, are so sacred?

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