Bike tour Lhasa to Kathmandu Sept. 2011

Hi gsimiani,
what's the latest news about your travel plans?
Me and my husband are seriously considering taking a similar trip, so maybe we could join your group?... The timing seems perfect for us, but there are still some work issues to be solved.
If the plan is still valid, I could pm you on details perhaps?
Cheers,
Larisa

PM me from now on as I am not following the forum regularly. the tour is all set...we are all just training and gearing up!!

Hi there,

Can you please mail me the details. If I can extend my Chinese visa I'd love to join you guys...

K

Just to let you all know that the trip has gone well. We cycled all the friendship highway and the deviation to Everest base camp. it was an amazing trip I suggest to everybody. Just to put things straight though (for Saramaca) NO is not and easy ride...you must go there prepared to "suffer"..and when I say suffer I mean, enduring freezing mornings, where u have to eat your breakfast standing to keep warm...the sun doesn't come up till 8 and most of the time in the narrow valleys you wont see the first ray of sun touching you till 10, the ride is on paved road (true) but at this altitudes no matter how flat the ride is hard. the road to Everest base camp is not paved..and stones and a waved surface make it an unrest ride uphill and downhill...I strongly suggest front suspension for this part. The climbs are never too steep (true) but you ride 1000m ascents in 30km of never ending switchbacks and sometimes headwinds...prepare to suffer, and update your swearing vocabulary. So yes go ahead and do it, but is not for the faint of heart. If you are a regular cyclist and you do it in any weather...then this trip is ok for you..otherwise, don't bother.

Cheers! you can find a day by day diary of the trip and pictures on my blog. www.wheelswarriors.wordpress.com

would love to read this but your blog seems to be blocked (or at least blocked by the ISP I am using at the moment...) in China :(
Do you have the details of the trip eg. which agency you went with, roughly how much it cost to ride legally with permits, guide, jeep etc...
I cycled to Lhasa a couple of months ago but couldn't go all the way to Khatmandu. I would love to try and do that part of the ride one day, it looks just as amazing as riding along highway 318 was.
Maybe next autumn if I can get enough money/people together...

I will be interested how your trip works out. My husband and I plan on either LEJOG(Land's End-John O Groats) or Lhasa-Katmandu. But not until summer of 2013. We would like to do it without a company-on our own but with a follow vehicle for the 3wks so we don't have to carry tents etc. We'd be fine with them not following directly. I will read your posts until then. Thanks for the info.

#15 Not too sure about LEJOG but one day, when Im back in England I would love to ride the coast to coast...

For Lhasa-Khatmandu you can do it without company, but its very expensive. The best way to do the ride (if you dont want to go as part of a larger tour group....) is to go in a small group of 4-5 people and split costs (what I want to try and do next autumn...)

In Tibet, at the monent, you have no choice but to pay to have a van/jeep follow you as you ride (as the Chinese govt have very strict rules about how foreigners are allowed to travel in Tibet.) Foreigners who travel outside of Lhasa must have a tour guide, driver and van with them at all times...

Sorry to resurrect an old thread but I am planning a Kathmandu to Lhasa cycle for charity and it would be very useful to know which travel agent you used and how you found the service. Please can you PM me the details for the agent? Any other advice you have for organising this trip from scratch would be very useful.

Great blog by the way!