Full moon night in Manasarovar Lake on 07 September 2025 (Purnima)
Trip Facts
- Total Duration 17 Days
- Trip Grade Moderate
- Max Altitude ...
- Group Size 2 - 10 Pax
- Start From Kathmandu
- End From Kathmandu
- Trip Mode Pilgrimage Tour
- Accommodation Hotel/Teahouse
- Best Season ...
Mount Kailash Parbat (Kangri Rimpoche), 6714 meters high, is believed to have been a place of meditation and residence of founders of Buddhism, Jainism and Bonpo religions. The center of the universe is also worshipped by Hindus and Buddhists around the world, while Jain believe that their first Saint achieves liberation here: 'Freedom' meditating at Kangri. Hindus believe Mount Kailash / Kangri to be the abode of Shiva and Parvati, the supreme Hindu Gods. In Hinduism, pilgrimages to Kailash are undertaken to attain salvation, while in Buddhism, pilgrimages contribute to enlightenment and peace throughout the world. According to Vajrayana Buddhism, the mountain is Mount Meru, and Kangri is the home of the Demchok, who represents supreme bliss. There is a sacred mountain called Mount Kailash located just beside Manasarovar Lake, also known as Mapam Yumtso by Tibetans.
As "Manas" refers to consciousness and "Sarovar" refers to a lake, it is known as the Lake of Consciousness. Mapam Yumtso is also believed to be Lake Anavatapta, the place where Buddha's mother Maya gave birth to him. Along the lake's shore lies the ancient Chiu Monastery, a revered meditation site. There is a company in Nepal called Monterosa Treks and Expeditions that makes an excellent Yatra every year. Become a part of our group and take advantage of our best services so that this trip will be one to remember. I would like to extend a warm welcome to you. This year's itinerary can be found here.
Location of the meeting: When you arrive at Tribhuvan International Airport Kathmandu, you will be met by our staff and taken to your hotel.
Important highlights
- The Medical Doctor will be provided with medicine for the Kailash Yatra (free of charge)
- We provide massage therapists with a charge per minute of 1 USD (This is the relaxing part).
- Kailash Circumambulation will not have car/bus/jeep service, but you can rent a pony and porter for four days instead. There is a 38-kilometer walk from Yam Dwar to Chongdo as part of the 53 km Kailash Parikrama.
- Kailash Yatri or travelers need to adjust to basic accommodations at guesthouses, lodges or mud houses with very basic common toiletries three nights at Kailash Circle and one night at Manasarovar Lake during Kailash Manasarovar tour. All Yatri and travelers are kindly requested to avoid this place if this kind of facility cannot be adjusted.
- There are no any Shiva temples in Kailash region, but there is a temple dedicated to Ram, Sita and Laxman in Khojarnath village, 85 km south of Manasarovar Lake.
- Experience the world's most famous monasteries and the Potala palace in Lhasa, Tibet, as well as the historical cities of Lhasa and Shigatse
- In Manasarovar Lake, a Nepalese Pandit priest performs Rudrabhishek, Havan, and Aarti. He can also perform Tirth Saradha for an additional fee for those require who have lost their parents or family members.
- It is not recommended for pregnant women to make religious pilgrimages to Kailash Manasarovar tour.
- The water of Manasarovar Lake should not be touched or bathed in by women who are menstruating for four days.
- Our team includes Nepali Team Leader, guides, assistant guides, Chef and team of cooking.
Fixed Departure Dates for 2025
- 26 August 2026
Trip Itinerary
- 26 Aug. 25 Day 01: Arriving in Kathmandu airport 8:00 A.M. or
before If possible, please come one day earlier if possible, we
transfer to hotel, collect your passport & apply your Tibet visa,
around 2:30 PM Kailash briefing & everybody join for briefing
evening Pashupatinath for Arati Darshan program, back hotel - 27 Aug. 2025 Da 02: Holy sightseeing in Kailashnath -Darshan
Doleshwor, lunch, visit Buddhist temple Boudhanath, Saktipeeth - 28 Aug. 2025: Day 03: Rudrabhishek, Hawan, Panchamrit puja
Pooja and visit Gujewari / Guhyeshwari & Jal Narayan temple - 29 Aug. 2025 Day 04: Fly to Gonggar airport and drive to Lhasa
- 30 Aug. 2025 Day 05: Sights in Lhasa including a Potala Palace
- 31 Aug. 2025 Day 06: Drive Lhasa to Shigatse 3782m. & Hotel
- 01 Sept. 2025 Day 07: Drive Shigatse to Saga 4640m. and hotel
- 02 Sept. 2024 Day 08: Rest and acclimatization in Saga Bazaar
- 03 Sept. 2025 Day 09: Drive to Manasarovar Lake & to Darchen
- 04 Sept. 2025 Day 10: Drive to Yam Dwar, start walking Dirapuk
- 05 Sept. 2025 Day 11: Visit Charan Sparsh north side of Kailash
- 06 Sept. 2025 Day 12: Trek to Dolma La 5636m. and Zuthulpuk
- 07 Sept. 2025 Day 13: Trek to Chongdo & drive to Manasarovar
Full moon night in Manasarovar Janai Purnima \ - 08 Sept. 2025 Day 14: Drive from Manasarovar & Saga Bazaar
- 09 Sept. 2025 Day 15: Drive to Kerung valley and overnight stay
- 10 Sept. 2025 Day 16: Drive to Kerung and continue Kathmandu
- 11 Sept. 2025 Day 17: Transfer to KTM airport for final departure
Trip Cost- Join basis/Privet tour
Per Person USD 4000 Double / Twin / Triple room sharing basis
Per Person USD 4500 Single room basis
(Full meal Vegetarian Breakfast, Lunch, dinner) as fallow itinerary)
Extra Service if required
Mountain flight / Everest Flight is USD 230 per person
Extra cost if required for Kailash circuit:
Horse ride during the Parikrama 1 horse for 4 days USD 515
(Directly payable to the Tibetan guide)
Porter for carrying small bag for 4 days round Kailash USD 220
What's Included
- Arrival Kathmandu, transfer- hotel, evening Arati Darshan
- Visits to Pashupatinath and Budhanilkantha (Jal Narayan)
- 4 nights hotel in Kathmandu (double-bed sharing basis) full
- Fly KTM to Gonggar airport & transfer to Lhasa city, Tibet
- Kathmandu –Lhasa –Kathmandu flight ticket includes tour
- Drive to Shigatse, Saga & meet Nepali staff from overland
- Saga-Kailash tour breakfast-lunch-dinner make by our staff
- Lhasa, Shigatse - meals in local restaurant (full vegetarian)
- After Saga meal (breakfast, lunch, dinner) pure Vegetarian
- Hotel KTM 5 star, Lhasa to Shigatse, Saga, Darchen 4star
- Tibetan guide -Nepali guide speak fluently English & Hindi
- Cook who can prepare Indian dishes as your requirement
- Cook helper, assistant guide for Mount Kailash tour /Yatra
- Bus 16 – 29 seater for whole group travel to Kailash tour
- Support truck for carrying Kailash tour food & Nepali staff
- We have oxygen cylinder, mask- regulator emergency use
- We take basic first – aid - kit box altitude sickness Diamox
- Provides duffel bag, day bag and complete tour certificate
- Kailash travel permit and Tibet visa Mt. Kailash tour Yatra
- Rudra Abhishek & Hawan with 11 Braman in Pashupatinath
- Special Darshan inside Pashupatinath after Rudra Abhishek
- 1 Pandit in Manasarovar do Rudra Abhishek, Hawan, Aarati
What's Excludes
- Personal expenses Kailash Yatra / tour
- Rescue evacuation expense if required
- All personal equipment for Yatra / tour
- Down Jacket, Raincoat, Umbrella
- Visa & re-entry visa for Nepal
- Tips for Nepali staff, drives, guide
- Travel insurance from home country
Importation information
- Kailash area or all places is no any heating in hotel / guesthouse room
- Hotel or guesthouse most of places no hot water in bath room.
- If get any portable heater in your country, Please bring with you.
We provide / includes for safety service in Kailash Tour
- 1 Big oxygen bottle tanks in each bus surface with mask- regulator
- 4 Poisk Russian oxygen tank for Kailash Kora with Mask & Regulator
- Blood pressure checking machine for team, every day check for Yatri
- Oximeter -checking every day our Yarty's oxygen label in your blood
- We proved altitude medicine Diamox Pills for Kailash circuit Tour
- We provide 3 bottles of Mineral (1 letter) water per day for 1 Yatri
Our extra service includes than other operator
- We do welcoming our all Kailash Yatri in Kathmandu airport by Flower & Rudraccha Garland
- Arrival day evening will be Aarati Darshan Pashupatinath temple with holy tour guide
- Second day morning, Rudra Abhishek, Hawan, Aarati in outside of Pashupatinath gate where Hawan place with 11 braman priests as same dress, chanting Rudrabhishek mantra. Time approximately 2 hours.
- After Rudra Abhishek, special spiritual holy Darshan inside of Pashupatinath Temple with Thali Pure Cow Milk, flower garland, Rudraccha garland (Mala) with Prasad, will do oil Lamp burning to main Shiva ling in Pashupatinath temple offering you through by priest and after offer Prasad and Mala get back to you and your family. This Pooja do buy ticketing system, ticket we will provide 1 family for 1 ticket, if single person without family, we provide 1 ticket for 1 person also.
- Rudra Abhishek, Hawan, Aarati also will operate in Manasarovar with 1 Nepali barman priest.
- Our Guide and staff will be highly professional for Kailash Manasarovar Yatra/Tour
- If our Kailash Yatri wants to meet Chief priest of Pashupatinath temple, we try to arrange meeting in Pashupatinath.
Packing list for Kailash Yatra
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Back pack for 4 days Kailash Parikrama / circuit
Enough warm clothing for Kailash Yatra / tour
Basic medicines (minor injuries or life saving kits)
Regular medicines that you have been prescribe
Toiletries kit (Shop, Shampoo, Toothpaste brush)
Water bottle / Thermos flask, hot water (2 litters)
Sport shoes good for walk, gloves, torch light
Woolen socks (minimum 4 pairs), Sunglasses
Thermo cot undergarment, sun lotion, cold cream
(Shirt, pants which is easier to be while do Kora)
Rain coat or Umbrella, walking stick for 4 days
Sweets, Zinger/garlic candies, dry fruits and etc
- Kindly consult your doctor and get yourself examined for Spiritual Kailash Manasarovar tour
- As Holy mount Kailash & lake Manasarovar is situated at high altitudes please start exercises like walking, jogging, yoga meditation and other breathing exercises in order to make a successful holy tour
Fitness
Insurance
- Kindly get yourself a Travel medical insurance for this Kailash Manasarovar tour. Please make sure you cover yourself for emergency evacuation (helicopter), road transportation and hotel accommodation in the insurance.
- Everybody we require make travel insurance from home country Yatri or tourist which must be includes Life insurance, accidental insurance, all treatment and evacuation for transfer by land surface or by Helicopter from Nepal Tibet boarder to Kathmandu. Inside of Tibet/ Kailash is not allowed helicopter service
Health Precaution
Oxygen is less at higher altitudes. The inclement weather and high altitude induces certain illness generally not encountered in the plains. Headache, nausea, lassitude, lethargy, breathlessness, general uneasiness [malaise], high irritability, light loss of balance, disorientation, incoherence and insomnia are a few. It is common to all irrespective of the age, sex and physical fitness. Gradual acclimatization is the best answer. Tranquilizers, sleeping dose and strong anti-biotic must be avoided. The best idea is to deliberately slow down all the activities and have the following suggestions in mind:
- Relax-do not exert, be excited, make rest if needed
- Reduce talk time with each other during the journey
- Walk slowly – adopt one third of your speed and space.
- Keep your load light.
- Walk for 30 minutes and rest for 5 minutes
- Whenever you feel uncomfortable, just stop; rest and relax.
- Ignore the sudden outbursts of fellow pilgrims and avoid arguments.
- Observe silence with smile.
- Never go too high and too fast.
- Consume plenty of liquids; never proceed with an empty stomach.
- Chant a prayer or visualize everything around to suit your pleasant thoughts or put on the earphones and listen to your favorite music, Bhajans, chanting etc.
- Be careful not to catch a cold. It is better to be over clothed than under protected. En-route avoids taking bath or drinking water from Lake Streams or rivers, as your system is not conditioned for this.
- Protect yourself against dust and direct sunshine during the long stretches of driving. Face, feet and hands must be well protected.
- The uneven ground, steep slope and slushy banks are full of potholes. Do not combine walking and sightseeing together.
- Always listen to your guide or the one with experience. Never leave the group.
- On this trip, over exertion is to be avoided and drinking plenty of fluids is recommendable.
Hotel
Hotel in Nepal Side
Kathmandu: 5 Star Deluxe Hotel Radisson, Crown Plaza o Similar
(Full meal Vegetarian Breakfast, Lunch, dinner) as fallow itinerary)
Hotels Tibet side & en- route
Lhasa Tibet: Deluxe 5 star Shangri La or Similar hotel (Full Meals)
Shigatse: 5 star Gesar Hotel New wing (New Building) full meals
Saga: 4 star Northern Holiday hotel or Similar
Manasarovar Lake: Guest house or mud houses
Darchen: 4 star Himalayan Kailash Hotel
Dirapuk: Normal guesthouse (Parikrama first day)
Zuthulpuk: Normal guesthouse (very basic) (Parikrama second day)
Note: 4 nights in 3 places like Manasarovar Lake, first day of circuit - Dirapuk & second day of circuit -Zuthulpuk will be dromedary bed room and very basic toilets available.
Cancellation Policy
- 50% refund incase cancellation is received between 7 – 15 days before departure.
- No refund in case cancellation is done after obtaining Kailash permit and Tibet visa.
- A client shall make no claims to refund or re-adjustment in the event of interruption of journey after tour commencement.
- Any changes in given itinerary requested by the client will be on chargeable basis.
- If the trip is interrupted in case of Visa/ permit problem in Tibet, or due to any other reason, which is not in our control, all the expenses arising out of it shall be borne by the client.
- During the Kailash Manasarovar tour, if any Yatri cancels the trip due to sickness or any other personal reasons, without completing the tour, there will be no refund.
Notice:
- Safe & Thrilling Tour to Kailash and Manasarovar with highly professional escorts.
- Our company Monterosa Treks and Expedition (P) Ltd never compromise with high quality service, if quality you will get cheaper price but then service quality will also go down. We have 31 years record till now and zero casualties.
- Our company is your Kailash Manasarovar Yatra / tour dream holiday!!