Trekking Tour to Mount Kailash & Manasarover Lake (14 days ) 
Mount Kailash (Kangrinpoche) has been considered sacred by Buddhists, Hindus, Jains and Bompons for thousands of years. For the Hindus it is the home of the God Shiva and Buddhists equate the mountain with Mount Sumeru, the cosmic center of the universe. A pilgrimage to the mountain and round it, is such a supreme goal for the faithful, it is easy to understand how after, walking overland for weeks or months, they feel they are really approaching the centre of the universe since ancient times.
Mount Kailas at 22.022 feet is the highest peak in the Kailas Range of the Himalayas and is separated from the Great Himalayas chain by a trough that is drained in the northwest by the Sutlej River and in the southeast by the Yarlung Zangbo River (the extreme upper Brahmaputra River). Mapam Lake, lying just south of Mount Kailas at 4,557 m (14,950 ft), is one of the world's highest lakes. Mt. Kailash has been revered as the source of four of the great rivers of Asia: the Indus, Bramaputra (Tsangpo), Karnali (The sacred Ganges) have their sources within sixty miles of the mountain. Mansararover Lake at 14,950 feet is said to be the highest fresh water lake in the world and is difficult to reach due to the variable and extreme weather conditions. The distance from Lhasa is approximately 2000 km along a very bumby road. Adventure is never short on the beautiful Transhimalayan drive, through mountain, passes, promising a panorama of a cultural and scenic diversity unsurpassable anywhere. It culminates on an arid plateau. Here are the famous Buddhist monasteries of Drepung, once the largest in the country The Jhokhang - a spiritual center, and the awesome palaces of the Dalai Lama - Norbulinga ( the summer palace ). Ancient Barkhor Bazaar still barters the bric-a-brac, in a region that's not so much strange as utterly surreal. For this trek we need to be totally self-sufficient, and bring our own food and camping equipment. Basic lodges and tea-houses can be found but the plateau is so remote that it is possible to travel for several days without finding food available. To travel for days on this remote plateau with the chance encounters of nomads herding their sheep or yaks is to be transformed into another way of life, to see and become part of such a devout pilgrimage as shown by pilgrims around Mt. Kailash and Lake Mansarovar is to put some aspects of our western way of life into proper perspective. We begin the tour by driving from Kathmandu to the Nepal/Tibet border town of Zhangmu where we collect our transport. We travel by the southern route and after our pilgrimage (religious or secular) we return by the same route. 14 days tour : ITINERARY: Day 01 KTM - Kodari (border) - Nyalam Hotel L. D Day 02 Nyalam - Paiku Tso (lake) Camping B. L. D Day 03 Paiku Tso - Saga - Dzongba Camping B. L. D Day 04 Dzongba - Mazomala Pass Camping B. L. D Day 05 Mazomala Pass - Darchen Darchen GH B. L. D Day 06 Mt. Kailash circuit Camping B. L. D Day 07 Mt. Kailash circuit Camping B. L. D Day 08 Mt. Kailash circuit and Manasarovar Camping B. L. D Day 09 Walk around Manasarovar Camping B. L. D Day 10 Mansarovar - Mazomla Pass Camping B. L. D Day 11 Mazomla Pass - Dzongba Camping B. L. D Day 12 Dzongba - Paiku Tso (lake) Camping B. L. D Day 13 Paiku Tso - Nyalam Hotel B. L. Day 14 Nyalam - Kodari - Kathmandu x B. L
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