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| Mt. Kailash & Manasarova Pilgrimage Tour |
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Mount Kailash (Kangrinpoche) situated at western part of Tibet, has been considered sacred by ..
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| Saga Dawa Festival Tour |
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Saga Dawa is an important Tibetan Buddhist festival, held each year on the full moon day of the fourth lunar ..
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I'm happy to write a recommendation fro Niru and his trekking agency. I know Niru since 1994, when I mad my first trekking with him arround Dhaulagiri and to Mustang.In this time he worked for a big German ......
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Adventures Geo Treks is an environmentally conscious adventure and cultural travel organization based in Nepal, specializing in small groups and individuals, 22 years of experience in this trade to assimilate traveler's vacation and for the best value of money.
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Mountain Flight
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Mountain Biking
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Helicopter Tour
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 This is the story about one of the most impressive moments we have ever witnessed anywhere. "Saga Dawa is an important Tibetan Buddhist festival, held each year on the full moon day of the fourth lunar month of the Tibetan calendar, to celebrate Sakyamuni 's enlightenment.", that's what every guidebook will tell you. But actually having been there, at that moment it is more like being part of a magic event, something that gets a total grip on all of your senses. So what's going on? Each year, |
they replace the Tarboche flagpole, a huge pole that stands round of Kailash. People from all over Tibet gather here that day to attach their prayer flags they brought from home, to pray, and to help erect the flagpole. The flagpole should stand perfectly upright, or else things are not good for Tibet. A Lama leads the whole ceremony from the nearby monastery. It's his job to make it work 'right first time'.
Day of Saga Dawa:
People circulate the flagpole that is down on the ground now. They pray and throw 'wind horses' (little pieces of colored paper with Buddhist scriptures on them) into the air. They help to remove last year's prayer flags and attach new ones. As a visitor you are almost forced to follow them as they go around and around, time after time. Along the sides, on the slope of the nearby hills, a lot of people are sitting to watch the 'spectacle' and there are musicians, which play all the time on their horns and symbols.
The flagpole is first erected halfway, using A-structures and ropes. The Lama continually gives instructions on how to do it, when to stop and when to go on. Everyone can help pulling the ropes, that's the 'non-organized' part of it, but there are always plenty of people doing this spontaneously. When they cannot go further using the A-structures, they pause for about half an hour. The Lama sits on the side, and all the time people come to sit in front of them, to talk to him, to give him some gift (mostly some drink!), to ask him for good fortune. They do not 'queue' however, as soon as someone is gone, someone else comes out of the walking crowds - it all seems not organized, but in fact it's a very special way of organization!
Then comes the final part, the last step that has to result in the perfect upright position of the flagpole. A steel cable is attached to two trucks, engines are warmed up, and then, on the sign of the Lama, and they go backward, pulling the flagpole. To be able to control the movement, on both sides of the flagpole people pull ropes too, to prevent it doesn't incline to one or the other direction. Once the trucks start moving, it all goes very fast, the flagpole is moving, the A-structures that were supporting it, fall down, and only seconds later it is all over. And then big magic occurs, the flagpole stands upright, and at that very moment, thousands of wind horses fly into the sky... like an explosion of prayers going to the heavens. You can really feel a sudden great sense of happiness surrounding you.
The next moment, people start incubating the flagpole again, this time to assure themselves the job is well done, and that all is well. We join them in some kind of almost euphoria. Some hours later the place is empty again, except for the tents further away belonging to the people that will spend the night here, maybe to return the next day, or to do the Kailash parikrama.
The Saga Dawa festival has been held here for the last thousand years... Having been part just once is such a powerful experience.
Tour Type : Lodge/Camping
Tour Grade : ** 2
Maximum Altitude : 5470 m.
Best Season : May-Sep |
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| ITINIRARY |
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Day 01:
Kathmandu, Arrive in international airport, pick up and transfer to your Hotel.
Day 02:
Rest day/ sight seeing around Kathmandu and evening tour briefings with welcome dinner o/n Hotel.
Day 03:
After your break fast transfer to domestic airport and flight to Nepalgunj one hour and check in your Hotel in Nepalgunj and afternoon sight seeing tour in Nepalgunj and evening dinner. Overnight same hotel.
Day 04:
Flying one hour to Simikot and Camp Dharapari 4 hours walk,( 2295m.)
Day 05:
DHARAPARI-to-KERMI 5 HOURS WALK (2690 meters)camp.
Day 06:
KERMI –to-YANGRE KHARKA 5 HOURS WALK (2850 meters)camp.
Day 07:
YANGAR -TO- MUCHU 5 HOURS WALK, (2920m.) Camp.
Day 08:
MUCHU –TO- YARI 6 HOURS WALK, (3640m)Camp.
Day 09:
YARI TO HILSHA,The trail makes steep continue ascents along the side of the ridge above Sipsip to huge rock cairn atop the Nara lamgma at 4580m.
Day 10:
HILSHA TO TAKLAKOT,
Day 11:
DRIVE FROM TAKLAKOT TO Tarpuche & Attend the Saga Dawa Camp (This date is the main Sagadawa Festival day)
Saga Dawa Festival 11 2006
Day 12:
TARBUCHE - Dirphuk (4,890m.) (6HRS) and Camp
Day 13:
Trek Dirphuk -Zutul Puk 4790m. Domala Pass and descend ti Suthulpuk (6-7hrs) 22km Camp
Day 14:
Trek to 14 KM and 1 hour drive to Mansarovar Lake(4510 m)and camp.
Day 15:
Rest day in Mansarover on the grassland camp
Day 16:
Drive to Paryang (4560m.) (7-8 hrs.) 277km. Camp
Day 17:
Drive Saga - Nyalam (3800.m.) 336 KM (7-8 hrs.)O/nt at Guesthouse.
Day 18:
Drive from Nyalam to Kathmandu. 125 Kms. 5-6 hrs.
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