Journey into Tibet 2008
Hi, I am happy to be able to give you the new details for
another unique journey into Tibet that I am organising for May/June 2008.
This will be the third time that I have taken a group into Tibet and will
most probably be my last one, so I have added some special features to
this trip which I feel will really make it a “journey of a lifetime”!
We will meet in Kathmandu on Monday May 26th 2008, fly into Lhasa on Wednesday May 28th and finish back in Kathmandu on Sunday June 29th. This time the trip lasts for 35 days and is a little longer than before, as we will have the opportunity to participate in the Saga Dawa festival which falls each year on Buddha’s full moon or his Enlightenment day. This festival takes place at Mount Kailash itself and is a great, colourful gathering of Tibetan people.
The other new feature that I have added for this trip is that we will trek out for six days from south of Mount Kailash through the very remote north western region of Nepal to a small town called Simikot from where we will fly back to Kathmandu. This will allow us a better balance between the driving days and trekking days and the trek itself goes through some of the most beautiful scenery in Nepal.
This journey has again been
designed for anyone who has long had an interest in Tibet, its people and
its culture and for anyone who has felt the desire to make the circumambulation
or kora of Mount Kailash.
It will take us to Lhasa and the central towns of Tibet and then into the far west of Tibet across the wild and isolated Changtang plateau on what is known as the “northern route” to Mount Kailash. We drove this way last year and we will be travelling through some spectacularly beautiful landscape. We then head south into the ancient western kingdom of Guge and the pilgrimage place of Tirthapuri. The climax of the journey will be Lake Manasarovar and the kora of the sacred Mount Kailash before we make the six day trek to Simikot.
Many of you reading this have already expressed a desire to make this journey in previous years but were unable to come before. I very much hope you can join us this time.
"The four weeks I spent in Tibet in the spring of 2006 was one of the most memorable times of my life. Is it the altitude, the timelessness, the incredible landscape, the faces of the people? Or is it something internal, a spiritual connection with a place on the planet that has spent hundreds of years on one single pursuit... the search for oneself?
I don't think I can answer these questions really. Probably it is a mixture of them all.
But Tibet has been a dream for me for about 30 years, an unreachable land, a jewel hidden away in the highest mountains of the world. So to actually get a chance to go there, and walk the paths, visit the shrines and caves, meet the people, is more than a dream come true, it is a gift from the beyond." - Vimal - U.K.