Tibet mountain bike tour is one of our best adventure Tibet travel products and most adventure and challenging adventure tour.
Tibet cycle tour can be started from Lhasa and continue Tibet mountain bike tour to Everest base camp via Yamdrok Lake, Gyantse and Shigatse through the friendship highway and end up in Kyirong, the border between Nepal and Tibet.
You will fly to Lhasa city in Tibet from Kathmandu. This flight will be your once in a lifetime experience and you will enjoy the spectacular aerial view over the Himalayas. Once you take off in Lhasa Gonggar Airport, you will explore Lhasa city and acclimatize against the high altitude because Lhasa is 3490 meter ( 11450 ft ) elevation above sea level.
In Lhasa you look around the city by bike, visiting places of interest, including the Ganden monastery and then follow the Bike route from Lhasa to Kathmandu which stretches less than 600 miles (920 km) in 14 to 25 days. You run through 6 passes, traverse the backbone of the Himalayas, where you admire the northern face of Mt. Everest and visit two cities. This mountain bike tour starts in Kathmandu and heads onto the Tibetan Plateau before we cycle more than 1100 km down to the fertile rice fields of Nepal. This mountain bike tour offers one of the world’s longest and steepest mountain bike descents from Lhasa to Kathmandu – an unbelievable 4600 m.
The roads are predominantly crushed stone roads which head over spectacular mountain passes. The highlight of the mountain biking tour comes when we arrive at the monastery of Rongbuk and see Mount Everest Base Camp (5200 m) from your mountain bike. This is the only mountain biking tour in the world where you can visit Everest Base Camp with a mountain bike.