23 days Tibet Mountain Biking Tours.

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Trip Cost Includes
- International airport pick up and drop service
- Three nights hotel in Kathmandu on BB basis in twin sharing basis
- Welcome and Fare well dinner
- Kathmandu to Lhasa flight Ticket
- Hotel accommodation in Lhasa on BB basis in twin sharing basis
- Airport tax
- Tibet Travel Permits and Chinese Visa cost and arrangements
- All Tibet permits and entrance fee
- Sightseeing in Kathmandu with a private car/Van with driver and English speaking tour guide
- All sight seeing entrance fees
- One to two land cruiser with carrier out of Lhasa
- A supporting truck
- All camping equipments and services like as tent, food, cooks, etc.
- All meals three times a day while you will be camping but only BB (bed and breakfast) while you will be using hotels along the way

Trip Cost Does Not Include
- Nepal Visa
- Mountain Bike if in rent
- All drinks, water, cold drinks, alcoholic drinks during the trip
- Tips for the staffs
- Cargo Cost from Kathmandu to Lhasa

Accommodation:
The tours include hotels, simple guest house on bed and breakfast basis and tents.

Meals
Food is generally good and mostly Tibetan style such as noodles, Tibetan bread. And tour doesn't include soft/hard drinks, lunch, dinner. Please note that in Kathmandu hotels are in room and breakfast only. 

Travel Permits & Restrictions to Travel Tibet
- Aside from visas for China, travelers to Tibet must also obtain permits from the Tibetan Tourism Bureau. Alliance Trekking will organize your Tibet travel      permit. Please send copy of your passport if you are planning to enter Tibet via Nepal as soon as you book the trip. In the condition you are planning to enter Tibet via China; you need to send us copy of your passport and Chinese visa as soon as you book the trip.
- Traveling individually to Tibet is officially not allowed. Travelers must officially be part of a group tour with a guide who will help you dealing with the Chinese authorities at checkpoints en route.
- You are not allowed to travel in Tibet with an individual Chinese visa via Nepal (your individual Chinese visa such as multiple entry tourist visas, working visas, student visas, etc., all will get canceled once we apply for Chinese visa from Nepal. There is no other way to save your individual visas, only you can save these visas by entering Tibet from mainland China to Tibet, i.e. taking Lhasa to Kathmandu tour instead of Kathmandu to Lhasa tour.)
- If you are planning to enter Tibet via mainland China, you need to organize your Chinese visa from Chinese embassy in your home country BUT If you are entering Tibet via Nepal, your Chinese visa must only be organized through Chinese Embassy in Kathmandu. Chinese Embassy in Kathmandu is opened only Monday to Friday. Generally on normal condition, it takes 4 working days to issue Chinese visa from Chinese embassy in Kathmandu. In urgent condition, we can also organize your Chinese visas in 2 working days too by paying express fee but we only charge normal visa fee with the clients and take responsibility of express fee on our own.
- Please make sure that your passport is valid for at least six months before travelling. Visa is not provided to the passports with less than six months’ validity. You need two passport-sized photos for the visa application.
- Travelers must use same passport while traveling Nepal and Tibet (while traveling Tibet via Nepal, you will get Chinese visa only in the passport that is stamped with Nepalese visa). We have found tourists traveling with more than one passport but while traveling Tibet via Nepal, you need to use the same passport for Nepal and Tibet.
- All Tibet permits can be obtained using photocopy of your passport but you must need your original passport to apply for Chinese visa which is collected by Alliance Trekking once you arrive in Kathmandu.
- Itinerary and the places to visit in Tibet must be stated clearly and finalized in advance because while applying for a Chinese visa from Kathmandu, a copy of this should be attached. The visa is issued accordingly. According to the places mentioned in the itinerary, travel permit from the Tibet Tourism Bureau- TTB (Lhasa) is obtained. Alliance Trekking will do this for you.
- If you would like to head out to mainland China after your Tibet travel, the group visa will allow you to enter but once you are in mainland China this visa will be replaced with an individual Chinese visa. (if duration of your group visa covers all your programs in mainland China also, you can use it during your stay in mainland China or it can be replaced by individual visa, it depends on Chinese officials’ decision).
- You are not allowed to take any Tibetan religious books, literatures, photographs, especially related to Dalai Lama during your travel to Tibet. If found, these related possessions are confiscated and you are not allowed to enter Tibet.
- It is very tough to get your group visa extended, so better to let us know about your programs very clearly during your trip planning phase so according to that we will try to arrange your visa and permit.However, the rules and regulations regarding Chinese visa and Tibet travel permit get changing very often, therefore we suggest our customers to consult with our travel consultant to be sure regarding the visa issues so that your all programs and plans goes smoothly without any obstacles.

Q:- Do we need Tibet visa separately to travel Tibet ?

A:- Yes, you have to have Tibet visa to travel to Tibet and you even need Tibet travel permit but we issue it together (visa and permits) before your travel.

Q:- How long does it take to get Tibet visa/permit ?

A:- It takes at least a week process to get Tibet visa/permit however you get visa/permit paying extra cost(urgent charge) within 4 days and even within a day but other than American natioanlity it will cost one week process visa fees US$ 50/- 4days process US$ 65/- and one day process (top urgent) will cost US$ 85/- per person whereas for American will cost US$  142/-, 180/- and US$ 198/- respectively.

Q:- Will I be able to travel Tibet with my Chinese visa ?

A:- So far rule is to go one country you can not have two visas (Chinese and Tibet visa) so if you have Chinese visa  you can not travel to Tibet. You have to get Tibet Visa/permit (by the way Tibet visa is paper visa so there will be no sticker visa on your passport exceptstamp on it when you entry/exit Tibet).Surprisingly Chinese Embassy will cancel your Chinese visa if you already have it to go to Tibet. So our recommendation is do not take Chinese visa from your home country/Nepal if you are planning to go to Tibet. This policy may change but we do not know until Chinese Authority announce it.You may have few extra more days Tibet visa so that by the same visa you may visit to China but once you get to China you must leave on the day your Tibet visa expires and to extend your visa in China is not in our control at all.

Q:- Do we need to show our original passport to get Tibet visa ?

A:- We can process/apply your visa even by the copy of your orginal passport but you have to show your original passport obtain visa in this case you will have to pay urgent visa fees however in a week process we have to submit your original passport to get the visa.