9 Days Kham Tibet Genyen Massif Mountain Hiking Tour

Genyen Mountain is the third highest mountain in Sichuan with an altitude of 6204m after Gongga Mountain and Mount Siguniangshan. Genie Mountain Area is an untapped scenic spot, featuring “supernatural, magnificent and beautiful”. It is a good place for you to explore and hike. The months of September and October are the good time to hike. In the tour, you will also visit Xinduqiao – the paradise of photography, the Highest Town – Litang, and overlook Gongga Mountain from the black rock city of Gaoersi Mountain.

Highlights:

  • visit the paradise of photography – Xinduqiao, with wonderful natural lights and stunning landscape.
  • Visit the Highest Town – Litang, with strong nomadic features and strong atmosphere of traditional Tibetan life.
  • Overlook Gongga Mountain from the black rock city of Gaoersi Mountain.

Brief Itinerary

  • Day 1: Chengdu Arrival
  • Day 2: Chengdu – Kangding
  • Day 3: Kangding – Litang
  • Day 4: Litang – Zhangna township
  • Day 5: Zhangna – Hupiba
  • Day 6: Hupiba – Naiganduo Village
  • Day 7: Naiganduo – Litang
  • Day 8: Litang – Kangding
  • Day 9: Kangding – Chengdu

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Day 1: Chengdu Arrival

Sightseeing and Activities: Airport pick-up
Accommodation: Chengdu
Meals: No meals

Chengdu airport pick up and transfer to your hotel. Have a good rest on the first day.

Day 2: Chengdu – Kangding (325km)

Sightseeing and Activities:
Accommodation: Kangding
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Around 07:00 AM, our guide and driver will meet you at your place. Then drive through Mt. Erlangshan, and Kangding city, known as the hometown of love song. Kangding is the first jump stone to plateau for tourists who are travelling to Ganzi tibetan region or planning travel to Lhasa, capital of Tibet Autonomous Region.

Day 3: Kangding – Litang (290km)

Sightseeing and Activities: Xinduqiao, Litang
Accommodation: Litang
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

After breakfast, drive to Xinduqiao. Xinduqiao is honored as “the Paradise of Photographers” due to the wonderful natural lights and stunning landscape. It is a picturesque small Tibetan town and famous for its plateau pasture scenery, with vivid green grassland, streams, mountains, and Tibetan counting houses surrounding it. Then we will head for Litang. Visit the World High City – Litang. Litang is the town with strong nomadic features and strong atmosphere of traditional Tibetan life; strolling in the streets can give you time to see local lives, feel modern namadic life, and compare to those ideas in your mind about Tibetans in this region.

Day 4: Litang – Zhangna township (81km)

Sightseeing and Activities: Genie group mountains
Accommodation: Zhangna township
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Drive through Maoya Grassland and over Tiejiangshan Yakou to view the Genie group mountains. Then you will arrive at Zhangna township. Then check in hotel and have a good rest.

Day 5: Zhangna – Hupiba

Sightseeing and Activities: hiking
Accommodation: camping
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Start hiking tour in Genie Mountain Area. It will takes about 7 hours. There are Genie Main Peak, Xiaozha Mount and Kemailong Mount. Enjoy the breathtaking beauties along the way. Then we will arrive at Hupiba for camping, which is the perfect place to view Genie Mountain.

Day 6: Hupiba – Naiganduo Village

Sightseeing and Activities: hiking, Lenggu Temple, Guozhuang
Accommodation: camping
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Get up early to see the sunrise, and then start to hike. Hiking about 2 hours up to visit Lenggu Temple, which is the birthplace of the Buddhist white sect. The temple preserves holy relics of Gesar of Ling, including handprints and footprints left on the stone, and a princess’s tent and chair 6 kilometres away from the temple proper. After the visit, hike another 1 hour back to Hupiba, and then another 3 hours to Naiganduo Village. In the evening, experience the Tibetan culture and dance Guozhuang with the Tibetans. Stay in tent for overnight.

Day 7: Naiganduo – Litang (85km)

Sightseeing and Activities: hiking
Accommodation: Litang
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Continously hiking today. Get up early for sunrise. Then hiking to Zetong Villag and Lazai Yakou to see the mountains lining up from left to right. After hiking to Lamaya township, take the car back to Litang.

Day 8: Litang – Kangding (290km)

Sightseeing and Activities: the black rock city of Gaoersi Mountain
Accommodation: Kangding
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

After breakfast, drive back to Kangding from Litang. We will stop at the black rock city of Gaoersi Mountain with the black rocks all over the mountain to overlook the king of Sichuan mountains – Gongga Mountain. It is also a good point to take photographs.

Day 9: Kangding – Chengdu (325km)

Sightseeing and Activities: the black rock city of Gaoersi Mountain
Accommodation: Kangding
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Drive back to Chengdu. It takes about 6.5 hours. Service ends.

Service Included

  • Admission fees for all of the sightseeing spots listed in the itinerary
  • Private vehicle for transfers & sightseeing with skilled driver
  • Private English-speaking tour guide
  • Hotels as listed in the itinerary
  • Meals as listed in the itinerary
  • Service charge & government taxes

Service Excluded

  • Single room supplement
  • Personal expenses and gratuities to service staff
  • Tips to the guide & driver
  • All optional programs