Replies: 11 - Last Post: 20-May-2007 07:42 Last Post By: vistet
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Acclimatisation in Lhasa is incomplete after 2-3 days (or more to the point , nights) , and it´s acclimatisation to Lhasa´s altitude. Rongphu is at 5045 meters : you can visit and descend but staying overnight is a Bad Idea.2
Info I've received conflicts with #1's post. I'm doing the trip in a few weeks, and have 4 friends doing it 2 weeks after me (we've talked to about 10 agents about itineraries in this process). And I've had three different friends who have done the trip before advise me on what to do. Anyhoo, it seems very standard to do 2-3 full days in Lhasa, then drive to Shigatse, then to Shegar, then to Rongphu for overnight, then back to Lhatse, then to Lhasa. So 2-3 days in Lhasa and 5 days for the trip. Altitude sickness seems like a crap-shoot to me; none of my friends had problems though. I think the day-by-day driving process to EBC helps in that regard, but I don't really know. Also, we're looking to spend a whole day in the base camp area. Most proposals put you in the area right after lunch one day and have you leave early in the morning the next day; we were advised to spend more time there than that.
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I think 3 days is the bare minimum:4
I don't think shigatse is that worth visiting, actually we skipped shigatse in our trip although it was a 7-day one-way trip.5
We only had 2 nights in Lhasa before leaving for our Jeep tour and were fine. Ours was a little longer taking 6 days in total.6
I usually recommend people to take at least 5 days, but you can do it in 4.
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Info I've received conflicts with #1's post.
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I think the day-by-day driving process to EBC helps in that regard, but I don't really know.
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Also, we're looking to spend a whole day in the base camp area. Most proposals put you in the area right after lunch one day and have you leave early in the morning the next day; we were advised to spend more time there than that.
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