Community Experiences
What better way to experience the real Tibet than to stay with or visit locals. Home stays and community experiences give you a unique inside in Tibetan daily life, while benefitting local communities. Come as a guest, leave as a friend.
Bainang Tibetan family visit
Visit a family in rural traditional Tibetan village to observe and experience an up close of the traditional lifestyle of the indigenous Tibetan farmers and taste locally made snacks.
Region: U-Tsang
Attraction Category: Community Experiences
Khampa hospitality in Dorphu Valley
In heart of Khampa world, experience traditional Tibetan life in the unique and stunning Dorphu Valley. With this easy trek, revel in tranquility in Dorphu valley. Whether you are interested experiencing nomad lifestyle, visiting remote monasteries, sharing tsampa and tea with nomads, have the great opportunity to understand Tibetan lifestyle in remote area or just… Read more →
Region: Kham
Attraction Category: Community Experiences
Visiting a local family at Drupshi Village
We invite our guests to visit a local Tibetan family in a village called Drupshi near Ganden Monastery. In their home the guests will have a first-hand participative experiences of the day to day life of the family. We also invite a local Tibetan expert to give a small introduction about the daily life, festivals, traditions… Read more →
Region: U-Tsang
Attraction Category: Community Experiences
Yaks and butter tea trek
Tsurphu is a secluded monastery near Lhasa which seems much further away, at the end of a lovely, green valley. From Tsurphu there is a short, 3-day trek up and over a small pass and through Tibetan grasslands, passing traditional Tibetan settlements, walking over spiky tussocks of grass and camping in green pastures or with… Read more →
Region: U-Tsang
Attraction Category: Community Experiences
Walking around Barkhor Square
I love the close contact with the Tibetan pilgrims from all over Tibet, rubbing shoulders with them, the scent of the juniper from the incense burners while walking around Barkhor Square in Lhasa. It is great to explore the small monasteries inside the Kora, down narrow, dark alleyways that smell of smoke and butter, the… Read more →