Trek type: Camping/ Hotel/ Lodge/ Guest house
Trek Grade: Challenging Duration: 22 days (16 days Tour)
Activities: Trekking, camping, sightseeing )
Best time to go: June (March/April/September)
Departure dates: Itinerary 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 23, 2012: Arrival in Kathmandu .

Day 02: May 24, 2012: Preparation and arrangement of Tibet Travel permit

Day 03: May 25, 2012: Proceed from Katmandu to Shegar in Tibet

Day 04: May 26, 2012: From Shegar to Rombuk

Day 05: May 27, 2012: Trek to Everest base camp and back

Day 06: May 28, 2012: From Rombuk to Shegar

Day 07: May 29, 2012: From Shegar to Saga via Latze

Day 08: May 30, 2012: From Saga to Paryang

Day 09: May 31, 2012: From Paryang to Darchen

Day 10: June 01, 2012: Start of the Kora (Camp)

Day 11: June 02, 2012: Continue of the Kora (Camp)

Day 12: June 03, 2012: Continue and end of the Kora in Darchen

Day 13: June 04, 2012: Attend to the Saga Dawa festival

Day 14: June 05, 2012: Leave for Tholing and Tsaparang monasteries

Day 15: June 06, 2012: Visit of the monasteries

Day 16: June 07, 2012: Back to Manasarovar

Day 17: June 08, 2012: From Manasarovar to Paryang

Day 18: June 09, 2012: From Paryang to Saga

Day 19: June 10, 2012: From Saga to Shegar via Latze

Day 20: June 11, 2012: From Shegar to Katmandu

Day 21: June 12, 2012: Visit Katmandu

Day 22: June 13, 2012: Departure for the next destination. 

Cost :US$ 3125

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.