This trip is particularly designed for families with young children or those are who seek a quiet place for relaxing. This takes place in the Qinghai and camping place is in Chabcha (Chin: Gong He) county. There is one night camp at 3,100m in the mountains. There are some Tibetan nomads near our campsite, that gives us to chance to see their yaks and sheep. There are some mountains where you can do some short hike and small river for kids to play.
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Destination
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Trip duration
6 days, 5 nights
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Availability period
23 Mar. 2022 - 6 Nov. 2022
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Min/Max travelers
Min.2; Max.8
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Transport
Suv, Hiking
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Accommodation
Tibetan homestay
Nowadays basically, almost every part of China is accessible. What we do is to really focus on those hard-to-reach areas, to bring you a taste of something special.
Be an adventurous traveler whether to enjoy a short or long break, to a destination where mass tourism has not reached yet
Another night homestay in Erthi village, the family will cook food for you. This is a village of about 600 people mixed with Tibetans and small population of the Han Chinese. This is a semi nomad community and each of the families have their own farms growing wheat, barley and beans. They all have greenhouse where they get a fresh vegetable, they also have sheep for meat and wool and cows for milk.
Optionally you can choose to camp instead of homestay on day 03 if you prefer to spend more time in the mountains.
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Travel is an emotional experience, cherishing new corners and venture into unknown landscapes. Respecting this and giving back to society has taken an important role in our endeavours in leaving only footprints and taking only memories. ATRAILS committed to improving the conditions of communities we encounter on our journeys whilst safeguarding and protecting nature and wildlife
Qinghai, China
Day 1
ARRIVE IN XINING
Our local team will meet you at Xining Caojiapu airport, you will be driven to your hotel at the heart of old city. If the time permits, we will take you visit Dongguan mosque and it said, the oldest one in the western part of China. After visiting the mosque, we will take a short walk to see a Muslim market. In the evening, we will meet at the Tibetan restaurant for a welcome dinner.
Food
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Accommodation
Tibetan homestay
Day 2
Amnye Shachong mountain
This morning, your team will meet you at the hotel lobby at 8,00am with all your luggage. We will drive out of the city and start to drive toward to Shachong monastery. This monastery is located on the top of Amnye Shachong mountain, where you can get a great panoramic view of the entire Yellow River valley. We will spend one hour including visiting the monastery and a couple temples. Continue drive another hour to Khamra National park. The landscape changes into colorful mountains with amazing terrain. It is a large park and there are plenty of view points to see the park from each directions. we will drive to Namzong Tse hermitage and we will do one hour hike up to Namzong Tse. A place where many of the Buddhist partitioners come and do retreats. We stop at the top of pointy mountain to view the surroundings. Meet with our driver and drive another hour to Trika. Over night in Yinlong Hotel. Meet all for dinner at 7.30pm.
Food
B/L/D
Accommodation
Tibetan homestay
Day 3
Erthi Village
You have your breakfast in the hotel and meet our team at the hotel lobby at 8,00am. Today, we start to drive toward higher plateau by entering in a deep land formed gorges. Before getting on the higher planes, we will stop to watch the vase of Yellow river and the mountain ranges. Continue drive another hour, we will be in Erthi Village. Where we will do one night home stay. Our host will prepare dinner at their home, The dinner will be locally grown vegetables with Tibetan lamb. Overnight in Erthi. Choose home stay or camping for the night.
Food
B/L/D
Accommodation
Tibetan homestay
Day 4
Chabrang pasture
Today, we have breakfast at our host and pack your luggage and leave for our campsite at 8.30am. Drive toward Chabrang pasure where the nomads spend their entire summer. It is only less than hour driving from Erthi. As you arrive to our camping site, our team will start to set the camp and you and your family can enjoy the opened pasture, the kids could play on the grasslands, there will be many mountain rats, birds and in the evening, the yaks will go back to their homes, the kids could get a great chance to see the yaks, sheep. Our lunch will be packed and we go out in the mountains doing some short hike (no limitation of distance). Lunch in the mountains wherever we find a good spot. After lunch, we could continue further trek or return to our base camp. Dinner will be prepared and served at 7.30pm. After dinner, you still have light awhile. Possibly the best time to enjoy the stars during the night.
Food
B/L/D
Accommodation
Tibetan homestay
Day 5
Qinghai Lake
The sun arises and the birds sing at the camp. The fresh smell of coffees invites you and your family to the table. locally baked breads with fresh yak yogurt and fries eggs will be served. We will have slow breakfast, kids gets more time play on the ground, as sun gets stronger, we will start pack our camp. You will empty your tents and our teams will collect the tents and pack in the cars. Driving toward to Qinghai lake. After driving 30 mints, we will start to view the lake. there are some areas where you can get better view of the lake. Spend some time near by the lake. we can either have our lunch at the restaurant or we can prepare some simple picnic. In the late after noon, we will drive back to Xining and arrive at your hotel at 7,00pm. Meet all for goodbye dinner at 8.30pm
Food
B/L/D
Accommodation
Tibetan homestay
Day 6
DEPARTURE
Your driver and guide will meet you at your hotel lobby and drive to the airport , fly back to SH (Additionally if you flight scheduled in the late after noon, you could visit Tibetan culture museum)
Food
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Travel is an emotional experience, cherishing new corners and venture into unknown landscapes.
Respecting this and giving back to society has taken an important role in our endeavours in leaving only footprints and taking only memories.
ATRAILS committed to improving the conditions of communities we encounter on our journeys whilst safeguarding and protecting nature and wildlife
Tibetan Homestay
Tibetan homestay in beautiful wooden structure and decorations, indoor toilets, clean water and beddings, both traditional and modern beds available.
Camping
The previous solution will alternate with camping under the stars.
Travel is an emotional experience, cherishing new corners and venture into unknown landscapes.
Respecting this and giving back to society has taken an important role in our endeavours in leaving only footprints and taking only memories.
ATRAILS committed to improving the conditions of communities we encounter on our journeys whilst safeguarding and protecting nature and wildlife
Create the experience of your dream with our travel experts
Make your own trailIncluded
- SUV with A/C and space for luggages.
- Well experienced trilingual Tibetan tour leaders with more than 10 years of leading international clients.
- Hotels with daily breakfast, 24 hr shower, standard toilets
- Camping equipment (no sleeping bags)
- Meals during trekking and travel. ( local Chinese, Tibetan and Hui Muslim food.)
- Tibetan homestay in beautiful wooden structure and decorations, indoor toilets, clean water and beddings, both traditional and modern beds available.
Not Included
- Ticket(s) for international and domestic flights
- Tips for services of local guides and drivers
- Entry fees and festival visiting fee
- Porterage at the airports and at hotels (in and out)
- Visa fee for China (if guests enter China twice, then a double-entry visa is required)
- Excess luggage surcharge
- Any personal expenses.
Payment and Cancellations
- Full payment is due 4 weeks prior to arrival. We reserve the right to release all services in case of payment default.
- Intermediate bank charges and fees are the responsibility of clients.
- CANCELLATION POLICY:Between 30 and 21 days prior to arrival : 20% of total amount/Between 20 and 7 days prior to arrival : 50% of total amount/Less than 7 days: 100% of total amount.
Important notes
Few important details to frame the experience:
- Elevation: 2200m-3100m / 6,600ft- 9,300ft
- Trip level: moderate in physical challenge
- The order of the visits is subject to modifications due to local conditions
- No reservations have been effected at the time of quotation
- As of 2020 Asian Trails has introduced a voluntary carbon offsetting initiative for our travellers to compensate for unavoidable emissions during their tours with us. Emissions during multi-day package tours (not including international flights to our destinations) are pegged at a cost of $1.50 per traveller per day. This amount is based on average daily emissions of travellers across our eight destinations. Contributions from clients to our carbon offsetting initiative will go into a destination-specific fund to support climate protection projects certified to Gold Standard in that country. Certification to Gold Standard assures that the projects supported through our carbon offsetting initiative not only reduce harmful emissions but also positively contribute to sustainable development. Our contributions to projects in a country will be relative to the CO2 emitted by our travelers in that destination. To know more about this project: https://marketplace.goldstandard.org/collections/projects/products/more-efficient-cooking-and-heating-china
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Camping Breaks
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Destination
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Trip duration
6 days, 5 nights
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Availability period
23 Mar. 2022 - 6 Nov. 2022
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Min/Max travelers
Min.2; Max.8
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Transport
Suv, Hiking
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Accommodation
Tibetan homestay
About your trip
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Local English speaking guides are accompanying tours and transfers in each destination. German, French, Italian, Spanish and Russian and Chinese speaking guides are available on request in major cities and subject to confirmation.
DELIVERY FEES
A delivery fee will be charged according to the distance traveled, if any train tickets are required to be delivered to clients’ hotel.
PAYMENT
Full pre-payment by bank transfer is required 30 days before the commencement of services.
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For children aged between 2 and 11 years following rates will apply:
- Child in shared adults’ room with extra bed will pay 80% of the total package price
A maximum of two children per party is granted such a discount. Besides this general policy, specific conditions may apply case by case.
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IMPORTANT NOTE REGARDING AUTONOMOUS REGIONS IN CHINA
The Company is not responsible for any last-minute closure of specific regions or tourism sites caused by decisions taken by local or national authorities to restrict access hereto. We will provide alternative itineraries where necessary and reduce cancellation fees to a minimum, however, such imposed closures are beyond our control and constitute a case of force majeure.
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- We increase efforts to ensure that children and adolescents in tourist areas are protected against sexual exploitation, one of the worst forms of abuse of young people today.
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