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Tibet Tours from Chengdu by Train/Flight 2023: your story starts here
Why travel from Chengdu to Tibet
- Chengdu is the most popular gateway city to Tibet both by flight or train. Daily flight (train) makes it easy to reach the pure holy land for you.
- Chengdu is the hometown of the Giant Pandas, it also offers other spectacular experience, such as museums, cuisine, ancient buildings, etc. Imagine the marvelous journey covering cute pandas and mysterious Tibetan culture and landscape!
- Visiting our office in Chengdu, we deal with your itinerary, payment and other stuffs together to design a wonderful Tibet travel experience.
How to plan a Tibet tour from Chengdu
Usually 2 or 3 days are needed to visit the highlights in Chengdu and take flight or train to Lhasa. You can spend a whole day to explore the bests in Chengdu, such as Panda Reserve Base, Wenshu Temple, Jinli Street. Other activities depend on your scheduled flight or train. If you can spare out some part-time, you can visit Renmin Park, Jinsha Relic Museum or watch a Sichuan Opera Show.
As for the part in Tibet, two destinations should be covered - Lhasa and Everest. Lhasa is the transfer center as well as the first destination in Tibet where houses Potala Palaces and many magnificent Buddhism monasteries. After 1 or 2 days stay in Lhasa, you can travel around to other places, such as Namtso Lake, Nyingchi, Shannan, Shigatse, Ngari as well as Mount Everest.
7 Days Lifetime Tibet Train Tour from Chengdu
Chengdu 
Lhasa
Highlights: Chengdu Panda Base, Qinghai Tibet Railway, Potala Palace
Chengdu is the most preferred gateway city to Tibet and traveling by train is the best transportation to view the landscape on the way. This tour gives you an opportunity to feast your eyes leisurely.
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6 Days Classic Chengdu Lhasa Highlights Tour
Chengdu 
Lhasa
Highlights: Panda Base, Wenshu Temple, Potala Palace, Sera Monastery
Chengdu is the hometown of giant panda while Lhasa is the holy city of Buddhism. Visiting these two cities will never disappoint you. This tour covers the most highlighted sites of them.
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10 Days Chengdu Lhasa Everest Overland Tour
Chengdu Lhasa
Highlights: Panda Base, Potala Palace, Yamdrok Lake, Palcho Monastery Mt.Everest
This tour is made for those who want to have a short stay in Chengdu and a deep discovery of Tibet. Before heading to Tibet, you have the chance to enjoy a close visit to the giant panda which is known as “living fossil” in “laid-back” Chengdu. In Tibet, you will spend several days exploring Lhasa, then go to visit the peak of the world - Mt. Everest via Gyantse and Shigatse. On your journey, you will experience all features of Tibet – holy palace and monastery, snow-capped mountain, sacred lake, devoted pilgrims etc.
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4 Days Best of Tibet Tour from Chengdu
Chengdu Lhasa
Highlights: Highlights:Potala Palace, Jokhang Temple, Sera Monastery
Chengdu, the center city of southwest part of China, is always the most convenient gateway to Tibet. We offering you, who wants to extend a China Tour to Tibet from Chengdu, a well-organized Tiber tour with our years’ experience. Just join us!
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9 Days Chengdu Lhasa Kathmandu Overland Tour
Chengdu Lhasa 
Kathmandu
Highlights: Panda Base, Potala Palace, Tashilumpo Monastery, Mt.Evrest
Chengdu has attracted thousands of travelers from different corners of the world with giant panda - one of the most endearing animals. This took will take you to have a very close contact with pandas and enjoy the leisure life pace of Chengdu. Then, you will make full use of your time to explore holy Lhasa City and Mt. Everest. At last, the tour ends at the border between Tibet and Nepal. You can transfer to Kathmandu directly.
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10 Days Panda & Qinghai Tibet Railway Experience Tour
Chengdu Xining Lhasa
Highlights: Panda Base, Wenshu Temple, Potala Palace, Sera Monastery
Want to view the natural beauty along the Qinghai-Tibet Railway but dislike too long train journey? This tour is what you need. You will take a flight to Xining and then get to Lhasa by train.
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8 Days Hong Kong Tibet Tour with Stopover in Chengdu
Hong Kong Chengdu Lhasa
Highlights: Hong Kong Independent Tour, Panda Base, Wenshu Temple, Potala Palace, Jokhang Temple
You may happen to be in Hong Kong and planning to visit Tibet. Easy! But you can't fly directly to Lhasa, and have to make a stop at Chengdu. Here is the right deal.
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Custom Tibet Tours for Expats in China
Happened to be working or living in China? It's time to take a break, and board a flight or train to the holy land Tibet. Following are our specially tailored tour packages for expats in Chengdu - enjoyable and budget.
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4 days Holy City Lhasa Tour for Expats
Destination: Lhasa city and suburb
Lhasa, the city of gods and the essence of Tibet, has attracted thousands of travelers as well as pilgrimages. If you want to explore the highlights of Lhasa in short times, this four days tour is perfect.
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7 Days Mount Everest In Brief Tour from Lhasa
Destination: Lhasa / Gyantse / Shigatse / Everest / Lhasa
This tour is perfect for those who want to visit Mount Everest in a short week with less Tibetan monasteries to visit. You will travel from Lhasa, via Gyantse and Shigatse to Mount Everest.
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7 Days Tibet Culture & Scenery Tour (Lhasa/Gyantse/Shigatse/Namtso)
Destination: Lhasa / Gyantse / Shigatse / Namtso / Lhasa
This is our "Golden Route" of Tibet tours. One trip to Lhasa just isn't enough, as you could only get a little taste of Tibet's majesty, charm and diversity. This "Golden Route" will show you the real highlights of Tibet travel.
Chengdu Top Attractions
- Chengdu Panda Base
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- Wenshu Temple
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- Jinli Street
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- Jinsha Relic Museum
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- Sichuan Opera
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Chengdu Lhasa Flight Info
There are DAILY flights leaving Chengdu for Lhasa, and most direct flights from other cities go through Chengdu to Tibet.
Flights usually take 2.5 hours from Chengdu to Lhasa, and you can choose to leave in the morning or the afternoon, for the flight that meets your needs.
Chengdu Lhasa Train Info
Train Z322 from Chengdu to Lhasa departs every other dayand arrives at Lhasa Railway Station on the third day (about 37 hrs).
Note:
1. We do NOT offer a ticket-only service because foreign visitors must book a tour from a travel agency and obtain a Tibet Entry Permit before booking their Tibet train ticket;
2. Tibet train tickets are quite popular, especially in peak seasons (from July to October), so please make your inquiry at least 3-6 months before your departure date.
Custom Services for Expats in Chengdu
1. All necessary Tibet Permits: No matter what kind of visa you're having, you are assured that we can help you get your Tibet travel permit.
2. Tibet local guide & transfer: To ensure your freedom and flexibility to stop off en route.
3. Purchase air/train tickets to Lhasa from the main cities of China, Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, at the best-price.
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Ng Lim Booi
Train Ticket
Do I need to provide Tibet Travel Permit when I online buy Train Ticket
To Lhasa. On 04/05/2017
To Lhasa. On 04/05/2017
2016-12-02 13:32
Hello Ng Lim Booi,
Thanks for your question. You can book train ticket online without Tibet Travel Permit. Only the valid passport number is required. But the Tibet Travel Permit is required when you collecting train ticket at train stations. If you need, feel free to contact us to help you apply the permit and book train tickets.
Hope my answer will be helpful. Have a good day!
Thanks for your question. You can book train ticket online without Tibet Travel Permit. Only the valid passport number is required. But the Tibet Travel Permit is required when you collecting train ticket at train stations. If you need, feel free to contact us to help you apply the permit and book train tickets.
Hope my answer will be helpful. Have a good day!
Vivian
成都去西藏
外国人需要入藏函, 火车票买得到吗？
2016-10-05 05:55
Hello Vivian,
Thanks for your message. Yes, Tibet Travel Permit is needed to purchase the train ticket. We can arrange the both permit and ticket for you. I have delivered your message to our sale department, one of our travel specialist will help you deal with the permit and train ticket soon.
Kind Regards,
Thanks for your message. Yes, Tibet Travel Permit is needed to purchase the train ticket. We can arrange the both permit and ticket for you. I have delivered your message to our sale department, one of our travel specialist will help you deal with the permit and train ticket soon.
Kind Regards,
Penny
Chengdu tibet tour
May i include a tibetian qigong learning tour?
2016-04-11 16:44
Hi Penny,
Thanks for your message. It is our pleasure to serve for you. I am sorry to let you know that we don’t have such a Qigong learning tour. As you know, Qigong is very hard to understand and harder to learn. But if you want, you can take some Kung Fu classes for Tai Chi, Wing Chun in Chengdu, Beijing and Shnaghai. You can even go to learn some Shaolin Kung Fu skills in Shaolin Temple in Henan Province, get some inspirations here http://www.chinadiscovery.com/dengfeng-tours.html Anyway, what our best-selling tour packages are our Tibet vacation deals. If you need, tell us more about your plan so that we can customize a trip for you in Tibet also in China.
Thanks for your message. It is our pleasure to serve for you. I am sorry to let you know that we don’t have such a Qigong learning tour. As you know, Qigong is very hard to understand and harder to learn. But if you want, you can take some Kung Fu classes for Tai Chi, Wing Chun in Chengdu, Beijing and Shnaghai. You can even go to learn some Shaolin Kung Fu skills in Shaolin Temple in Henan Province, get some inspirations here http://www.chinadiscovery.com/dengfeng-tours.html Anyway, what our best-selling tour packages are our Tibet vacation deals. If you need, tell us more about your plan so that we can customize a trip for you in Tibet also in China.
