Morning Tibetan cultural tour to Tibetan settlements

Morning Tibetan cultural tour to Tibetan settlements

This 8-hour guided Tibetan encounter tour is a unique opportunity to spend a day in a local Tibetan communities inside Pokhara Valley with a genuine Tibetan guide. Learn about their rich Tibetan culture such as Buddhism, medicine, arts and crafts, history, and their struggles as refugee in Nepal.  Tibetan food and drink provided.

Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product

Stop At: Jangchub Choeling Tibetan Monastery, Tashi Palkhel Tibetan Settlement, Pokhara 33700 Nepal

Departure: 05:30 a.m.

Return: Around 1:30 p.m.

We provide free pick up and drop off services to and from our guests respective hotels. We charge extra transportation fee for those guests who stay outside of Lakeside area. You can pay us extra transportation fee after our tour. Please provide us your hotel name and room number once you have booked your hotel.

NOTICE:
Our tour take place around Tibetan villages at Pokhara valley. Our tours are typically base on educational and Tibetan cultural tour. We encourage our guests to ask questions regarding Tibetan people and Tibetan Buddhist culture.

Our tours are not private. Usually we get 2 to 3 people in a group.

Program Includes:

Visit a monastery and attend the morning group pooja (prayer chanting) with the monks and hear the horns, drums, conch shell, trumpet, bell etc used during the prayer.

Enjoy Tibetan breakfast in a local family home, where you will get a taste of Tibetan foods like tsampa (Roasted barley flour), butter tea and Tibetan bread.

Meet a Buddhist monk and learn about their monastic life and their daily studies and activities in the monastery.

Discover the arts and crafts of the Tibetan Plateau – and learn how Tibetan people introduced and continue to make Tibetan carpets in the settlements.

Learn about the symbols and images that are so important in their daily life.

Meet a Tibetan doctor and learn basic information about Tibetan medicine and how it is used in treatment. You will also have a chance to have a first-hand experience of a medical checkup from the doctor.

Visit a settlement photo gallery and learn how Tibetan settlements were established in the early 60’s.

Learn about Tibetan schools, kindergarten and our educational system in the Tibetan settlements. But we are sorry to say that visitors are not allowed inside the school and kindergarten.

Enjoy simple Tibetan momos & thenthuk in a local Tibetan restaurant, inside the settlement, in the afternoon.

Duration: 8 hours