Trip Overview

Khashgar, also called Khashi, was once a major halt for caravans on the Silk Road .It is now a prosperous commercial centre with a population composed of Uighur, Tajik and Kirgiz nationalities. Here it is the Han Chinese who are in the minority.

Id Kah Mosque & Square are the center of the Khasgar which is the main shopping market. One of the sights not to miss is the Sunday animal market in the large field which is situated at a distance of half an hour walk eastward from the main market. The main attractions of Khasgar is the “Abakh Khoja Tomb”. It is nearly an hour walk from the main market to reach the Tomb. The Tomb of Xiang Fei, a concubine of the Emperor Quinlong, and those of her relatives are in the mosque. There is a cemetery behind the mosque has some holes in the graves with the occasional bone poking through.

This tour can be commenced either from Kathmandu, OR from Lhasa OR mainland China (Chengdu or Beijing). The trip can be designed as per your amount of time and the places you would like to cover within the tour.

Here, we have offered a program that commences from Kathmandu with an hour & 10 minutes flight to Lhasa where we spend a few days to look around. From Lhasa, we take our journey to Mt. Kailash via Gyantse (the ancient trading center of Tibet) and Shigatse (the second largest city of Tibet). We make a 3 days trek around the Mt. Kailash then continue our journey to Khasgar via Tirthpuri, Tholing, Shiquanhe and Yecheng.