"If you can dream it, you can do it!" (Walt Disney)

1000km Mountain Bike Expedition
Beijing - Lhasa - Kathmandu
incl. Qinghai-Tibet-Railway and Mt. Everest Base Camp

28 days, in
May 2010

Day 1 and 2 > Flight from Geneva via Doha to Beijing
Day 3 until 7 > Beijing (Bird's Nest, Great Wall, Forbidden City)
Day 8 and 9 > Journey on the highest railway in the world from Beijing via Xining and Golmud to Lhasa
Day 10 until 12 > Lhasa (Potala Palace, Drepung Monastery)
Day 13 until 26 > Mountain Bike-Expedition Lhasa - Yamdrok Tso - Gyantse - Shigatse - Rongbuk Monastery - EBC (5200m) - Tingri -
Nyalam - Zhangmu/Kodari - Kathmandu
Day 27 > Kathmandu (Boudhanath Stupa, Bhaktapur)
Day 28 > Return flight from Kathmandu via Doha to Zurich

starting at CHF 6390.- (Flight + Railway incl.)

TibetbyMTB.com is supported by Mountain Safety Research. We sleep in tents from MSR, type "Velo". TibetbyMTB.com in BIKE Magazin - Europe's most read mountain bike mag!
On all our trips, we conveniently fly with QATAR AIRWAYS. Astina AG is zigzag Travel's web partner. Follow the current tour "live" in the new blog! Unfortunately, all our 2008 departures have been cancelled. The political destabilization has pushed the risks beyond reasonable: Game over.
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