The Word\'s Highest Overland Tour,Lhasa to Kashgar.

Tibet Highland Expedition offers many different itineraries from Kashgar to Tibet (Lhasa), or Lhasa to Kashgar via Mt.Kailash and the Guge Kingdom. You can fly back to Beijing or travel through other borders such as the Torgat border.
This is a one of our special itineraries which we have been using for oversees clients for a couple of years.

Kashgar Has a history of more than 2000 years. the earlist reference appeared in Persian documents referring to an alliance of Tushlan tribes, who founded their capital here. Kashgar was posibly the first of the Buddhist kingdoms of the Tarim basin. In the second century AD, Hinayana Buddhism flourished here and continued to do so until the ninth or tenth century.

During this period Indian and Persian cultural influences were strong. Xuan Zang noted that the Kashgaris had green eyes-perhaps a reference to Aryan origins-and that for their writing they take their model from India....The disposition of the men is fierce and impetuous, and they are mostly false adn deceitful. They make light of decorum and politeness, and esteem learning but little.

In the first century AD, during the Han Dynasty, China lost its power over the Tarim Basin. The great General Ban Chao was dispatched to subdue the wild kingdoms of Silk Road that had aligned themselves with the Xiongnu against the Chinese. He took the kingdoms of Kashgar, Hetian and Loulan either by brute force or cunning strategy, installed pro-Chinese rulers and reopened the southern Silk Road to trade. Ban Chao remained in Chinese Central Asia for 31 years, crushing rebellions and establishing diplomatic relations with more than 50 states in the Western Regions. Accompanied by horsemen arrayed in bright red leather,he himself went as far west as Merv and made contacts with Parthia,Babylonia and Syria...Many more


Duration: 20days
Places Covered: Lhasa.Gyantse,Lhatse,Saga,Paryang,Lake Manasarovar,Kailash Base Camp,Tarthapuri,Guge Kingdom.Kashgar.
Maximum Altitude: 5500m
Best Season: Aprill,May,June,Aug,Sept,Oct,
Photo Spot: Monasteries and Bharkor,Yamdok Tso Lake,Mount Kailash,Lake Monasarovar.