| Overland Kashgar to Lhasa | |
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| Apr 24, 2005 17:31 |   |
 | Has anyone experience in travelling overland fro K. to L.? What about public transport? Hotels/Guesthouses? Privat car hire? How many days? Travel agencies? Please reply to gmx.de|WalterSpoerle Thanks |
| Apr 24, 2005 18:27 | #1 |
| From what i hear (had a couple buddies make the journey last fall) is that if you can make it from kashgar to Ali (shiquanhe) than the hardest part of the journey (ie arranging transportation) is done. From ali to lhasa there are busses that depart daily. Was told chinese people don't have as much trouble getting on busses out there and its even possible to rent a jeep and make the trip that way too. Now the police are another thing but i hear bribes are welcomed. When u planing on going? tuzi |
| May 22, 2005 09:13 | #2 |
| Hi. I saw your posting and am planning to travel the Karakoram Highway to Kashgar and then go on to Kailash and Lhasa. Do you know about getting entry permits for Tibet and for Kailash from Kashgar? Thanx. |
| May 22, 2005 09:15 | #3 |
| PS Please reply to my question on permits for Tibet and Kailash to: yahoo.com|vorovsky8-travel. Thanks! Katya |
| Oct 14, 2009 08:41 | #4 |
| Hello, Well 4 years later and another person is seeking advice for this route, any chance it has opened up ? i know the rail now goes to kashgar but info for the road is still sketcy |
| Oct 14, 2009 11:45 | #5 |
| Kashgar has had a train station for YEARS already. |
| Oct 15, 2009 15:57 | #6 |
| Wow! This thread was post 4 years ago and still going on! Well, I have traveled from Lhasa to Kashgar by road on my own. I didn't take the bus all the way from Lhasa, because I went to Kailash and Pulan and all kinds of small stops. So I took a bus from Lhasa to Rikaze, then from there to Dingri. After that there was no bus! I had to hitch hike all the way to Shiquanhe! However the wost part started from Shiquanhe. I took a proper sleeper bus from Shiquanhe straigh to Kashgar. I though It would be quite straight forward. But it turned out I traveled in this bus for 4 days 3 nights to get to Yecheng where is another few hours away from Kashgar. The road just simply too bad for any kind of vehicle to run. Any type of car I took absolutely everyone of them broke down once or twice at least. The bus I took broke down soon after we left, and couldn't be fixed. So we broke down and fix, then moved on a bit then broke down again. There was one night we stuck right on top of the mountain which is 6000 metres high! The best car I took was a 4 by 4 Shamowang, I got it for free by hitch hiking. I thought this time finally a bit of comfort on this dam road. But at the end one of the wheel flied out while the car was running, we stopped rite at the edge of a cliff! Right, forget about my bad luck. Normally, from Kashgar to Shiquanhe it will take two days. Then shiquanhe to Lhasa another 2 or 3 days. There is car for hire, looking around hotels and hostels. The buses don't run all the time. For foreigners now you need special permits to enter Tibet, furthermore you need to be accompanied by a government registered tour guide and join a tourist group. |
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| Apr 4, 2010 05:22 | #7 |
| ni hao I need some information to Travel Kashgar->Tibet->Nepal Please guide me about Public Transport |
| Apr 4, 2010 06:06 | #8 |
| This might be going through areas which require an Alien Travel Permit (ATP) on top of the TTB Permit. Try asking Jamin of Tibetan Connections for his opinion: tibetanconnections.com|jamin |
| May 8, 2011 20:01 | #9 |
| GUEST15731 | i have done kashgar to lahssa in 3 weeks,it was a pain of ass,to ali it went well in a jeep with some chinese but after ali i went in a post bus to the holy mountain ,then some chinese police obliged a caravan indian to put me on their ride ,the next day our truck broke apart from the bad road ,then a truck pick us up,then 3 more rides put us finally in proper road,meanwhile fore more then 10 times i had to help along 50 more people to pull out our truck from the mud with ropes!!!it was a HELL of a trip,no liquids,very dry food because the altitude sickness is constantly provocanting diahrreia a hell of a night in the top of a pass sit near a driver chinese snooring and talking,a canadien which we pick it up with broken bicycle that punch a chinese officer after this one was trying to tell him that our ride had to stop were some unpleasant moments the pleasure of finding finally a proper road its undescritible |
| Apr 21, 2012 22:30 | #10 |
| GUESTPAWOWGOLD | very good, it's very useful to me, thank you very much! |
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