14 days, Saka- Dawa Mt. Kailash 2025

About Saka Dawa: Saka-Dawa date of birth, enlightenment and Pari nirvana (pass away) of Lord Buddha Shakya muni, which is very special holy day for each Buddhist religious all over the world. As Buddhist Tibetan calendar each year’s 4th month is Saka Dawa, during the 4th month full moon is main day to celebrate festival at Kailash. During this holy month, many Buddhist people refrain to eat meat and killed the animals.

At that time many people gather from different parts of Tibet-China, India, Nepal and other parts of the world to participate the festival at Kailash which will be really crowd, sometime difficult to get hotel or guest house accommodation at Darchen, Dera Phuk and Zuturl Phuk. For this trip our Tibet agent will book all the accommodation in advance.

Fact about Kailash: The holy sacred spiritual mountain called Khang Rimpoche as local Buddhist Tibetan, Kailash as Hindu religion, which is 6,714m. high above sea level, situated at west Tibet. As local Buddhist religious believe the eastern face of Kailash is Crystal, the western ruby, Northern gold and the Southern face is Sapphire. Which is the holy mountain for Buddhist, Hindu, Bon and Jain religion.

The rocky path around Kailash 52 km. During the trip most difficult part is Dolma la pass 5,630m. because of high elevation and dry thin air. Local pilgrims walk around Kailash rocky path in a single day about 14 hours journey. But you can do slowly in three days to complete the journey around Kailash. Some people may get high altitude sick, if some one difficult to walk, they can ride yak or pony to complete the journey.

Fact about Manasarovar: As Hindu Sanskrit word ‘Manas’ means mind and ‘Sarovar’ means lake as Buddhism is called Tso Ma pham. The sacred holy lake situated 4,590m. path around the lake 88km. 90 meter deep. Once there were eight Buddhist monasteries around the lake, symbolizing the wheel of life. Most of the monasteries has been disappeared, still you can visit Gotsuk, Seralung, Trugo and Chiu Gompa (monasteries) around the lake. A small spring flow from Manasarovar to Rakchas Tal which called Gang Ga. At the same place there is natural hot spring, you have to pay certain amount for hot shower or bath.