In this post, we’ve put together for you a quick summary of sample costs of some common Tibet tour packages.
Chinese companies are usually cheaper, but be careful about making a choice based on price in the Tibet travel market.
With those cheapie tours, you definitely get what you pay for!
We recently heard from a traveler who took the cheap path and who regretted her decision when she realized the service with her company was so poor. She actually wanted to change companies, but it was too late. We hate to hear this, and would so much rather introduce you to a great, fair-priced agency to start with.
Paying a fair price to a reliable, Tibetan-owned company when you visit Tibet means supporting local, Tibetan-owned businesses, and the Tibetan guides and drivers they hire.
Pricing for Common Tibet Tour Packages
The prices on this page are estimates, based on double occupancy. The supplemental cost for having a single room can run from $80 to $400 or more USD, depending on the trip. No flights or trains are included.
If you need help for any of these tours, a free referral for a reliable Tibetan-owned agency, and precise costs for your specific journey, contact us here.
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After 3 years of closures, Tibet travel permits are now being processed for all international travelers, no matter if you are traveling from outside China, or if you currently live and work in China.
To travel to Tibet you must have both a Chinese visa and a special Tibet travel permit, which you must get from an official Tibet travel agency. Ask us for an introduction to a reliable Tibetan travel agency here, at no cost to you.
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Small Group Tours
Note: If you are a single traveler, please send a inquiry, and our recommended agents will organize you to join with other clients.
Everest Base Camp Adventure
8-day journey to Everest Base Camp, starting in Lhasa and including highlights of Central Tibet.
Note: There are fixed date departures basically every week starting mid-April to October.
Everest Base Camp Easier Acclimatizing
This 10-day journey to Everest Base Camp that allows you more time to adjust to high elevation. Highly recommended!
Note that the price of this tour depends on the number of people in your group. (If you want to go alone, you need to book a private tour. )
Low Season: January to May, and October to December
High Season: June to September
Mount Kailash Trek
15-day journey to Mount Kailash that includes 3-day trek around the holy mountain and many of the highlights of Central Tibet.
Lhasa Highlights
At 4 days, the Lhasa highlights tour is the shortest trip to Central Tibet you can take.
Tibet-Nepal Overland Journey
Classic 8-day journey that takes you from Lhasa to the Nepal border, including Everest Base Camp. Learn more about this popular Tibet-Nepal package.
Cultural Tibet
6-day journey to Lhasa and stunning destinations nearby. Learn more from our favorite, most reliable, Tibetan-owned agency. Ask us to introduce you here.
Yushu Horse Racing Festival
9-day journey in culturally-preserved Kham, including the horse festival. Get a recommendation for a Tibetan-owned guide who can plan this trip for you here.
Lithang Horse Racing Festival
11-day tour in Kham, Eastern Tibet, including horse-racing festival.
Get a recommendation for a Tibetan-owned guide who can plan this trip for you here.
Private Tours
Everest Base Camp
Journey to Everest Base Camp, starting in Lhasa and including highlights of Central Tibet. (8 days or more, customizable)
Mount Kailash Pilgrimage
After the government-imposed transportation fee changes in 2016, traveling to Kailash as a solo private tour will be very expensive, perhaps over $7500 USD for a 15-day tour, and they are still high. If you are still interested, please fill out the inquiry form here.
Kham and Amdo Overland
25-day (or as long or short as you wish) journey through highlights of Eastern Tibet. Get a recommendation for a Tibetan-owned guide who can plan this trip for you here.
Grand Tibet
28-day customizable journey of the great sights of Kham, Amdo and Central Tibet. Get a recommendation for a Tibetan-owned guide who can plan this trip for you here.
Horse Trek in Kham
19-day journey on horseback with a company that specializes in horse trekking.
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Wilfredo Pena-Flores says
Hello Dear,
A couple questions:
1.- I am interested in the 4 Days Lhasa Highlights during high season, just one person but I would like to be part of a group tour. Is that Possible? Can you provide a description of the tour? Prices?
2.- If my understanding that I have to have a Visa to enter China and the Special permit to enter Tibet. Question: While requesting the Visa to Enter China, do I need to request the permit for Tibet, also?
Thank you for your attention,
Wilfredo
yowangdu says
Hi Wilfredo!
We’re happy to give you an introduction to a Tibetan travel agency who can help you go on a group tour for the 4 Days trip to Lhasa. Just fill out this form: https://www.yowangdu.com/tibet-travel/referral.html No, you don’t need to ask for the Tibet permit when you get your Chinese visa. In fact, you should not mention Tibet on your Chinese visa application. Your Tibetan agent will handle the permit. Cheers!
Yolanda and Lobsang
Nancy says
Hi I have been quoted a huge amount for a 12 day private tour in And around Lhasa and monasteries around U Tsang- $3200- seems excessive to me. Everything included but not flight. Can you comment? Thanks
yowangdu says
Hi Nancy,
Sorry for the long time in replying. We asked our Lhasa agents and they said it is hard to know without knowing the whole itinerary and the time of year. If you fill out the travel request form here (no cost) our agents will give you a quote for that trip. https://www.yowangdu.com/tibet-travel/referral.html
Best to you,
mgyalo says
I plan to go to Kham and Amdo next June. So could you please share the contact of your agency.
My mail mgyalo (at) gmail.com
yowangdu says
Hi, We have replied by email. Cheers!
Petrus says
Last July we made a 22 day Kham and Amdo private tour from Chengdu to Xining, 9 people with 3 Pajeros, 3 drivers and 2 guides. We asked for quotes for full board trip (including everything, also food) from 6 Tibetan owned agencies and the prices varied between 4050€ and 2265€. Even the cheapest offer, which we chose, worked just fine. Looking at the prices of hotels and food and considering the salary levels in Tibet the agency still must have made a decent profit. Lesson learnt: bargain and ask around.
yowangdu says
Thanks for sharing your experience, Petrus!
Michelle Lu says
Hi! Would you be able to share which agency you went with in the end? I am planning to go in April with a friend and looking at a 10 day from Lhasa to EBC and back. But similar to you, I am perplexed as to why there are huge price discrepancies. So I would rather go with the recommendations of past travellers. Hope you would be able to help.
yowangdu says
Hi Michelle, We have sent your travel request to a great Tibetan owned agency. You will hear back shortly!