8 Days Beijing Tibet Train Tour

Day 1

Today's Activities: Arrive in Beijing, Airport-hotel transfer

Day 2

Today's Activities: Beijing
Badaling Great Wall (2 hours):

As the first section of the Great Wall opened to the public, Badaling Great Wall is also the most well-known one among all the sections of the Great Wall in Beijing, which is about 75 km NW of Beijing. There you can appreciate wonderful views: magnificent ancient battlements and watchtowers. Transportations there are quite convenient.

Scared Way is believed in feudal China to be the road of emperors to return to the Heaven and a way to watch the earth after death. Beijing Scared Way is bordered by 12 sets of animal and human statues, Great Red Gate, marble memorial archway etc. There is a stone statues-lined walk leading to the Ming Tombs.

Changling tomb, the mausoleum of Emperor Yongle and his empress, was built in 1413, covering an area of 100,000 square meters, as the principal and the best-preserved one among the imperial mausoleums. 

Bird Nest is located at the southern part of the Olympic Green in Beijing, which is the main stadium of the 29th Olympiad in 2008. Covering an area of 21 hectares, Bird's Nest has a floor space of 258,000 square meters. It is so large that it can receive 91,000, including 11,000 temporary seats.

Beijing Roast Duck is not unfamiliar for quite a number of foreign friends, it is accredited as one of the most delicious food in Beijing. Among various flavors of Beijing roast duck, those in Quanjude are particularly famous. As a time-honored restaurant with their own special technique and flavor in making roast ducks, Quanjude can provide you most outstanding quality and unforgettable flavor. The largest restaurant of Quanjude is at Gate of Peace, you can go there for a visit and feast your eyes and stomach.

Day 3

Today's Activities: Beijing to Lhasa, Train to Lhasa
Tiananmen Square (50 minutes):

As the largest square all over the world, Tiananmen Square was also a remarkable place of several key events in the history of China, esp, in Chinese modern history, giving the Square more cultural significance. Near the Square, there are governments buildings, Forbidden City, Heavenly Gate, museums and mausoleum.

The Forbidden City, situated at the heart of Beijing City, is most prosperous between 1420 and 1911 during Chinese feudal society, as it is home to 24 emperors. It is precious wealth to China as well as the whole world for the great halls, gates and squares along with the intricate networks of side courtyards, gardens, halls and quarters. As for tour, it is not a single point, Wangfujing Street, Tiananmen Square and Shijingshan Park are not far away.

Temple of Heaven, located in the southeastern part of Beijing City, is a complex of buildings in Taoist style. During Ming and Qing dynasties, it was a place for emperors hosting annual ceremonies praying for good harvest.

Day 4

Today's Activities: Train to Lhasa

Day 5

Today's Activities: Arrive in Lhasa

Day 6

Today's Activities: Lhasa
Potala Palace (1 hour):

Situated on Mountain Maburi (Red Mountain) in Lhasa of Tibet, the Potala Palace is an ancient Tibetan palace complex with a height of 110 meters. The whole traditional Tibetan style building consists of the White Palace in the east which Dalai Lama lives in and the Red Palace in the middle containing the Dalai Lama Stupa Temple and the Buddha Temple.

Located in central Lhasa in Tibet and surrounded by Barkhor Street, Lhasa Jokhang Temple is the ultimate pilgrimage destination for Tibetan Pilgrims. With an area of 25,100 square meters, Jokhang Temple is filled with palmers and tourists. Compared with Potala Palace, the Jokhang Temple is smaller while more manageable. The temple itself is a 4-storey and golden-roofed temple.

Situated in the heart of Lhasa encircling the Jokhang Temple, the Barkhor Street is definitly the right place to watch the palmers gathering from different parts of Tibet, doing prostration every 9 steps, or circling deasil around Jokhang Temple, joining the tourists to shop for local products at the colorful stalls, or having a relax in a coffe shop or tea housing to enjoy the show of every passerby, or expacting a date by sitting down against the lover wall?

Day 7

Today's Activities: Lhasa
Drepung Monastery (3.5 hours):

Located in the west of Lhasa city and at the foot of Mountain Gambo Utse, the white imposing Drepung Monastery is well known as one of the largest monasteries in the six main monasteries of Gelu Sect in China, which as built in 1416. It used to be the living palace of Dalai Lamas before the restructing of Potala Palace. Besides, the Shonton Festival here will give tourists a great chance to have a close encounter with the ancient Tibetan festival.

Situated in the western suburb of Lhasa city of Tibet, Norbulingka it the biggest man-made garden in Tibet Autonomous Region. The garden covers an area of 360,000 square meters, with 374 rooms inside. The area used to be wasteland with wild animals, weeds and scrub which the Seventh Dalai Lama liked and often visited, thus, the Qing Magistrate had a palace built. Later, Kelsang Potrang was built by order ot the Severnth Dalai Lama. Now, it is a park opened to the public.

Situated in the northern suburb of Lhasa of Tibet, the Sera Monastery is a traditional Tibetan temple complex of Great Assembly Hall, three colleges and four structures. Some say the "Sera" means wild rose in Tibetan and the monastery was surrounded by wild roses, hence the name. The Sera Monastery was constructed in 1419 by Jamchen Chojey of Sakya Yeshe of Zel Gungtang(1355-1435), a disciple of Tsongkhapa.

Day 8

Today's Activities: Depart Lhasa, Hotel-airport transfer