Accommodation and Comfort on Kailash Mansarovar Yatra: The Honest Guide

Accommodation on the Kailash Mansarovar Yatra runs from 5-star hotels in Beijing, Lhasa and Kathmandu on our Everest and aerial journeys to comfortable town hotels with attached bathrooms in Kerung, Saga, Darchen and Shigatse, pilgrim guesthouses with shared rooms and squat toilets at Mansarovar, Dirapuk and Zuthulphuk, and fully equipped tented camps on the Nepal-side journey. Our standard on every journey is the best available room at each stop, with oxygen supply in the bedrooms at our Tibet and high-altitude stays. Heating at the highest stops is limited, hot water runs in designated hours in the towns, and electricity at the kora stops is scarce, which is why honest expectations matter as much as the booking itself.

The Short Answer

• Four kinds of night exist on this yatra: city hotels, town hotels, pilgrim guesthouses and tented camps. Every journey uses at least two, and the mix is set by geography, not by budget.
• The town stops have improved enormously. Kerung, Saga, Darchen, Shigatse and Taklakot have real hotels now, most with attached bathrooms and hot water in designated hours.
• The kora nights are simple for everyone. Dirapuk and Zuthulphuk mean shared rooms, shared squat toilets, thick blankets and no plumbing, whoever you travel with.
• Our standard is the best available room at every stop, with oxygen in the bedrooms at our Tibet and high-altitude stays, and the property named at booking.
• Nobody should book this yatra for the hotels. Book it for the mountain. The beds are how you arrive at it rested, and this page tells you what each one is like.

The Comfort Ladder: Four Kinds of Night

Every overnight on every Kailash journey sits somewhere on one four-step ladder: city hotels, town hotels, pilgrim guesthouses and tented camps. Knowing which of your nights fall on which step, before you pay a deposit, is the difference between a journey that feels honest and one that feels like a trick.

City hotels. Kathmandu, Lhasa, Beijing and Nepalgunj. Attached bathrooms, hot water at any hour, heating, WiFi, restaurants, and a front desk that answers the phone. Our aerial darshan journey sleeps 5-star in Kathmandu, our Everest journey 5-star in Beijing and Lhasa. On the other journeys these are comfortable, full-service city hotels you would happily book yourself. These are the nights that restore you.

Town hotels. Kerung, Saga, Darchen, Shigatse and Taklakot. Real hotels of roughly 3-star class, attached bathrooms in most properties, hot water in designated hours, electric blankets against the cold at the highest of them. Ten years ago several of these towns were rough trackside stops. They are not anymore, and the improvement continues every season, Darchen fastest of all.

Pilgrim guesthouses. The lakeside at Mansarovar, Dirapuk and Zuthulphuk on the kora, and the small Nepal stops of Hilsa and Simikot. Dormitory rooms or simple twins, often three to eight beds at the kora stops, shared squat Tibetan toilets, no heating, scarce electricity, and blankets thick enough to trust. Simple here does not mean uncared for. It means the building stands where no road, no plumbing and no power grid will ever justify marble.

Tented camps. Only our Nepal-side journey sleeps under canvas, in the high valleys of Humla. Full camping equipment, our own kitchen and support crew, camp toilets, and emergency oxygen carried with the team. These are the most expedition-feeling nights in our portfolio, and the only ones where every camp is raised by people who work for you.

Stop by Stop: Every Overnight in One Table

The table lists every place our journeys sleep, the sleeping altitude, the kind of stay, the bathroom reality and our booking standard. Read your own route’s rows and you will know, before you pay anything, what every night of your yatra looks like. Copy it into your family’s planning document if it helps. That is what it is for.

Four notes on reading it. First, the Rasuwagadhi border stop belongs to the overland route, whose border nights follow the Kerung road reopening after the August 2026 flood damage; the Hilsa and Lhasa routes touch none of this and run normally, and our Tibet border crossings page carries the current status. Second, the kora guesthouses and the Everest Base Camp lodge are the same buildings for every operator’s pilgrims; what differs is the room, the bedding and the care. Third, the tented camps belong to the Nepal-side journey alone. Fourth, our Altitude Safety on Kailash Mansarovar Yatra guide arranges the same stops by altitude risk, the better lens for a first trip.

The City Hotels: Kathmandu, Lhasa, Beijing and Nepalgunj

The city nights are the soft bookends of every journey: full-service hotels with attached bathrooms, hot water at any hour, heating, WiFi and restaurants. They do two jobs, rest and acclimatization, and they do both well.

Kathmandu opens almost every journey we run. You arrive from a long flight, the team meets you, and the welcome dinner sets the tone. A quiet room and a real shower matter more on that first night than anywhere else on the route. On the aerial darshan journey the Kathmandu hotel is 5-star, the softest possible frame around the flight, with Lucknow entry and exit available for pilgrims crossing from India.

Lhasa begins the three Lhasa routes. Three nights at 3,650 m, walking gently through the Potala and the Jokhang while the blood adapts, is the kindest start any full-kora route can offer. On the Everest journey the Lhasa hotel is 5-star, on the others a comfortable, full-service city hotel. Either way the rooms are warm and the showers are real.

Beijing belongs to the Everest journey alone: two nights in a 5-star hotel, a city day that includes the Great Wall, then the flight to Lhasa. It is a deliberate soft start, the last marble and the last espresso before the plateau, and it breaks the long flight from Europe or North America into kind pieces.

Nepalgunj is the hot lowland staging town for the western routes, near sea level in the plains close to the Indian border. Best available city hotel, attached bathroom, air conditioning, an early flight or drive the next morning. One night, sometimes two. It exists for logistics, honestly.

The Town Hotels: Kerung, Saga, Darchen, Shigatse and Taklakot

Kerung, Saga, Darchen, Shigatse and Taklakot carry the middle of every Tibet journey, and they have real, bookable town hotels of roughly 3-star class: attached bathrooms in most properties, hot water in designated hours, and electric blankets common at the coldest stops. We book the best available property for your dates and name it at booking.

The improvement story matters, because old accounts of these towns still circulate and frighten families. Pilgrims who made this journey fifteen years ago describe conditions we would not accept today, and every season we find better beds than the season before. Darchen improves fastest of all, from truck-stop rooms into a genuine pilgrim town.

Kerung, at 2,700 m, is the most comfortable Tibet-side stop on the overland route: a proper town, attached bathrooms, hot water in hours, oxygen in the bedrooms as our standard. Saga, at 4,450 m, is colder and more functional, and the hotels answer with electric blankets on most beds and hot water in posted evening hours. Darchen, at 4,570 m, is the best base on the kora circuit: hotels with attached bathrooms in most properties, shops, simple restaurants, and the first proper bed after the kora ends, which is a bed people remember. Shigatse, Tibet’s second city, has proper hotels and a monastery morning worth the comfortable night. Taklakot, also called Purang, is the practical border town of the western routes, where the Simikot-Hilsa journey deliberately holds a full acclimatization day at about 4,025 m before climbing to the lake.

Here is how we handle hotel names. Some itineraries print a famous property name against a date eight months away. We do not: towns upgrade fast, ownership changes, and the best property this season is not always last season’s. We promise the class, book the best available for your dates, and name the property at booking, when the name is actually true.

One small confession from the booking desk. At Darchen we request our rooms first, before any other operator’s team is awake, and we ask for the same thing every season: the quiet side away from the main road, lower floors where the building has them, because breath is easier at 4,570 m without a staircase before it, rooms near enough to the kitchen to catch the hot water hours, and families kept together. Room allocation on this route is not a detail. It is part of the care.

The Pilgrim Stays: Mansarovar, Dirapuk, Zuthulphuk, Hilsa and Simikot

At Mansarovar, Dirapuk, Zuthulphuk, Hilsa and Simikot, the stays are simple by any city measure: dormitory or basic twin rooms, shared squat toilets, no heating and scarce electricity. Thick blankets, a locked door and the geography outside the window are what these buildings offer, and no operator on earth can offer more, because these are the buildings that exist there.

The lakeside guesthouses at Mansarovar, 4,590 m, sit within walking distance of the shore. Rooms are dormitory or simple twin, bathrooms are shared and Tibetan in style, and some properties still run on dry or drop toilets with no running water. A few lakeside properties have upgraded in recent years and we use those where dates allow, but shared rooms remain the norm. Then morning comes, and the lake does what no plumbing ever could. Many pilgrims say the shore at first light repays every simplicity of the night before, and we have watched enough dawns there to understand why.

Dirapuk, about 4,900 m, is the first kora night, sleeping beneath the north face of Kailash. The guesthouses are stone buildings, government-run, with rooms of three to eight beds or simple twins, no plumbing, and toilets in a cold block outside. The evening has its own texture: boots lined up in the hall, the dining room’s single bulb, tea and soup, lights out early because tomorrow crosses the Dolma La at 5,630 m.

Then something happens that first-time pilgrims never expect. Sleep at Dirapuk is usually the deepest of the journey, because the body has walked all day at altitude and the cold pushes it under the blankets. Our Kailash Kora guide describes the walking day that brings you to this door.

Zuthulphuk, 4,790 m, is the second kora night, beside the cave that tradition links to the poet Milarepa. Shared squat toilets, minimal hot water, thick blankets, and a short walking day after it, which is mercy designed into the route. Our Dolma La guide carries the pass day itself, hour by hour.

Hilsa, about 3,600 m, and Simikot, 2,910 m, are the small Nepal stops at either end of the western routes. Simple lodges, functional rooms, hot water sometimes. They are staging points, not destinations, and we say so plainly.

A closing note, because it is the one that matters. These buildings are identical for every operator’s pilgrims. The differences worth paying for are which room you are given, the bedding on it, the oxygen beside it, the food our kitchen teams cook in the dining room, and the eyes that check on you in the night.

The Tented Camps of the Nepal-Side Journey

Our Nepal-side journey sleeps in tented camps at Tsongsa, about 4,200 m, at Tupling and Jakpling, about 4,300 m, and below the Lapcha Syar viewpoint at 4,900 to 5,100 m. We provide the full camping equipment, the kitchen and support crew, the camp toilets and the emergency oxygen carried with the team. You bring personal gear and a sleeping liner. Nothing else is your problem.

This is the only journey where every night under canvas is raised by our own crew, and it changes the feeling of the nights. The mess tent is warm and lit, hot meals arrive on a full-board plan, and the camp toilets are clean, private and set up fresh at each camp, which puts them ahead of several buildings further east.

The mornings are the memory people keep. At Lapcha Syar the fly is frosted at first light, and before you have found your boots there is tea at the tent flap and the crew is already at the stoves. Then the zipper opens on the southern face of Kailash standing over Nepal, and the whole camp goes quiet at once. Pilgrims who want holy ground, a high sacred viewpoint and no Tibet permit at all choose this journey for exactly this trade: the simplest beds we run, and the most completely our own.

The Toilets, Honestly

This is the section almost nobody in this industry writes, and it is the question we are asked most. City and town hotels have normal attached bathrooms. At the pilgrim stops the toilets are shared squat toilets, Tibetan style, sometimes in a block outside the building, with no running water at some lakeside properties. Bring your own paper and hand sanitiser everywhere, and treat hand hygiene as a health measure rather than a comfort.

The kit, in practice: paper, more than you think you need. Hand sanitiser, used before every meal without exception. Wet wipes, the honest shower of the plateau. A headlamp for night visits, because the walk to the door block is dark and uneven. Slip-on shoes, so nobody is lacing boots at 3 a.m. in a cold hall. And a small zip bag for used paper on the kora days, carried out to the next bin, because the plateau has no waste collection and leaving things behind is not an option for people who revere it.

A word for Western knees, said with a straight face. Squat toilets are a genuine physical question for travellers who have not used one in decades, and for elders with hip or knee trouble they can be the hardest part of the night. A week of gentle practice squats at home, holding a door frame for balance, is honest preparation, in the same category as breaking in walking shoes. Nobody is above it. Several of our guides do their practice every season, out of respect for aging joints.

Why we insist on the sanitiser line: the stomach troubles that do occur on this route travel overwhelmingly by hands. Hands touch doors, rails, notes and handles all day, then touch bread at dinner. Sanitiser before eating is the cheapest medicine on the yatra.

None of this is elegant to read. All of it is survivable, and prepared for, it barely registers. Knowing beats imagining, and imagining is what ruins journeys.

Heating, Hot Water and Electricity

Rooms at the high stops are largely unheated, and the answer is bedding: thick quilts, electric blankets at the Saga-class stops, and dressing for the room, not just the trail. Hot water runs in designated hours in the towns and is unreliable to absent at the pilgrim stops. Electricity is scarce at the lake and the kora stops, so carry a power bank. These three facts shape every evening on the plateau, and families should hear them before booking, not after.

On heating, the practical truth is that you beat the cold with layers. Sleep in what you would need at 4 a.m., add the hat and the dry socks, and let the quilts do the rest. Rooms at Dirapuk and Zuthulphuk are unheated by nature. Saga’s electric blankets are checked by our team on arrival, because a dead blanket at 4,450 m is not a small thing, and spare blankets are requested with every room.

On hot water, the town hotels run it in designated hours, posted at reception and usually in the evening. Learn the hours on arrival, plan the shower around them, and treat a missed hour as a story rather than a crisis. At the pilgrim stops, thermoses and kettles do honest work, and the wet wipe wash is a plateau tradition older than every hotel on this page. Hair dryers do not exist above 4,000 m on this route.

On electricity, the plateau runs on the power-bank economy, and it has rules. Charge everything at Saga and again at Darchen. At the lake and the kora stops, assume no sockets, and if the guesthouse generator runs, charging is sometimes possible for a small fee, paid in cash and worth every note. One power bank per pilgrim is the standard, and our packing list names it as the first electronic. The phone will be fine, by the way. We have watched a hundred pilgrims discover that a battery lasts for days when the mountain is worth looking at directly.

Oxygen in the Bedrooms: Our Standard

On our journeys, the bedrooms at our Tibet and high-altitude stops carry oxygen supply, emergency oxygen and first-aid travel in every vehicle and with the kora support team, and a doctor is on call through the Tibet portions of every journey. Bedroom oxygen means calm nights and quick relief at 4 a.m. It is support, not a cure, and we never sell it as more than it is.

In the room, it looks like this: a cylinder or concentrator beside the bed at Kerung, Saga, the lake, Darchen, Taklakot, both kora stops and the Everest Base Camp lodge, set up before the group arrives. At the tented camps, emergency oxygen travels with the team. On the Everest journey, the night at about 5,200 m is the highest sleep of any of our journeys, and our most watched, with the team checking rooms through the evening.

How it is meant to be used: at the first headache, the first restless hour, use the oxygen and tell the guide, in either order, but do both. Pilgrims sometimes wait out symptoms out of politeness or pride. Our teams treat a 2 a.m. knock on the door as a good thing, and the doctor on call exists exactly for that knock.

And the honest limit, stated plainly. Oxygen buys comfort and calm hours. It does not cancel the Dolma La, does not replace acclimatization, and is not a cure for serious altitude illness. Descent remains the cure, always. A room with oxygen is not a reason to ignore symptoms. It is a reason to sleep better while the body adapts, with a doctor’s number close by.

What to Bring for Sleeping

On most journeys, bedding is provided at every stop, and the one sleep item we tell every traveller to pack is a sleeping-bag liner, for hygiene and one extra warm layer. On the Lhasa Overland journey we provide the sleeping bags and trekking equipment, and the tented camps are fully equipped. Everything else on this list is small and earns its place every night.

• A sleeping-bag liner, the traveller’s best friend on this route: a hygiene layer between you and the thickest shared quilts, and one degree of warmth that belongs to you alone.
• Warm sleepwear, a hat for sleeping, and dry socks. The kora nights are won at the head and the feet.
• The pilgrim’s trick: sleep in the layers you will need at 4 a.m., and never wake cold. Undoing a zipper to cool down is easy. Finding warmth at 4 a.m. is not.
• Earplugs, for dormitory rooms, early-moving neighbours, and the group that leaves at 5 a.m. while you rest.
• Slip-on shoes or camp slippers for the cold walk to the toilets.
• A night light or small torch, kept inside the shoe you can find without thinking.
• The toilet kit, paper, wipes and sanitiser, packed where hands find it in the dark.
• A power bank, one per pilgrim, charged at Saga and Darchen.

Our Kailash packing list page carries the full gear list for the whole journey. This section covers only what the nights ask of you, and the nights ask for less than people fear: warmth you control, hygiene you carry, and light you can find at 4 a.m.

Single Rooms and Sharing

Twin sharing is the standard everywhere, on every journey. Single rooms are possible at the city and town stops for a surcharge, and effectively unavailable at Mansarovar and the kora stops, where the buildings have no private rooms to give. That is the whole rule, and it is set by geography rather than by us.

For solo travellers, we pair thoughtfully, with a same-gender traveller of similar age where the route needs it, or a single room where the route allows, settled at booking so nothing is negotiated in a cold hallway at 4,570 m. For families, we group rooms together wherever the buildings allow, and where they do not, we say so before you pay, not after.

The surcharge varies by journey and by stop, and we quote it in writing before you confirm anything. One honest calibration for the spreadsheet: a single at Darchen is usually possible. A single at Dirapuk is not a thing, on any budget, with any operator, and anyone who promises otherwise has not been inside the building.

Which Route Has the Best Accommodation?

Ranked by beds alone, the aerial darshan flight sleeps the best, then the Lhasa routes with their 5-star city nights, then the overland route via Kerung, then the helicopter and Simikot-Hilsa routes with their simple Nepal-side stops, and finally the Nepal-side journey, with the most nights under canvas. Five rungs, honestly held.

1. The aerial darshan flight. 5-star Kathmandu, best available Nepalgunj, every night at low altitude, no Tibet permits, no kora. The most comfortable nights in Kailash travel, and it is not close.
2. The Lhasa routes. 5-star Beijing and Lhasa on the Everest journey, comfortable city and Shigatse hotels on the others, then the town ladder and the standard kora stops. City comfort at the front, honesty at the top.
3. The overland route via Kerung. The classic ladder: comfortable Kerung and Saga, the lake, the kora stops, and back down. No city 5-stars, but a gentle sleeping-altitude build.
4. The helicopter and Simikot-Hilsa routes. The same Tibet ladder, entered faster, with simple Nepal-side lodges at Simikot and Hilsa around it. Efficient, and honestly simple at the edges.
5. The Nepal-side viewpoint journey. The most nights under canvas, camps raised by our own crew, and the Lapcha Syar mornings. The simplest beds in the portfolio, and the dawns that pilgrims describe first when they come home.

The ranking measures beds, not the worth of the yatra. Every door leads to the same mountain, and pilgrims who have slept at both ends of this ladder tell us, with striking consistency, that the hard nights are the ones they kept. Our route selection guide compares the five doors on every dimension that matters.

For Elders and Families: How We Plan the Rooms

We plan rooms for elders before departure, not on arrival. Ground floors where the buildings have them, rooms closest to the toilets at the shared buildings, quiet corners, families kept together, and the group’s elders within reach of the guide’s room. On the high nights, Dirapuk, Zuthulphuk, the Everest Base Camp night and the Lapcha Syar camps, our team checks through the evening, and a knock at 10 p.m. asking after a parent’s headache is part of the job description.

The elder’s night kit is small and matters enormously. Warm sleep layers and the sleeping hat, because older bodies lose heat faster at night. A night light, so the walk to a shared toilet block needs no phone flashlight and cold fingers. Slip-on shoes with grip. Medicines at the pillow, not at the bottom of a duffel. Water within arm’s reach.

Is the accommodation safe and clean for elderly parents? Safe, yes, with the allocation above, the oxygen standard, the doctor on call and the night checks. Clean is honest by tier: city-clean in the cities, simple-clean at the pilgrim stops, where clean means swept, aired, solid bedding and honest maintenance, and where we inspect and choose accordingly. The family version of this planning, medical conversations, route choices and the five ways elders receive Kailash, sits in our senior citizens guide.

What Luxury Honestly Means on the Kailash Yatra

Luxury on this route is real, but it is not marble at 4,900 m. It is the best available room at every stop, oxygen beside the bed, a doctor on call, food cooked by our own kitchen teams, the right vehicle under you, and the honesty of knowing which nights are hard before you book rather than after.

At the bottom of the ladder, luxury looks like any city: 5-star hotels in Beijing, Lhasa and Kathmandu, booked on the journeys where they belong. On the plateau, luxury changes shape. It becomes planning, staff, equipment and truth. The electric blanket that works. The room requested first at Darchen. The cylinder beside the bed at Dirapuk before the group arrives. The guide who knocks at 10 p.m. The kitchen team that cooks for the elder who eats lightly.

If a brochure promises five-star comfort at Dirapuk, it has not been to Dirapuk. No operator sleeps its pilgrims anywhere else, because there is nowhere else to sleep them. What an operator can promise is everything around the bed, and that is where the word luxury either earns its price or does not. Our page on what luxury really means on a Kailash yatra carries this argument in full, and our journeys, each with its night-by-night stays, are where the promise is kept or broken.

Questions We Are Asked

“Is there camping on the Kailash yatra?” Yes, on our Nepal-side journey through Humla, at Tsongsa, Tupling and Jakpling, and below the Lapcha Syar viewpoint, with full equipment and our own crew. On the Tibet routes, no: the nights run through town hotels and pilgrim guesthouses.

“What are the hotels in Kerung and Saga like?” Proper 3-star class town hotels with attached bathrooms, hot water in designated hours, and electric blankets common at Saga against the 4,450 m cold. Kerung, at 2,700 m, is the most comfortable Tibet-side stop on the overland route.

“Is the accommodation safe and clean for elderly parents?” Safe, yes, with planned room allocation, bedroom oxygen, a doctor on call and night checks on the high nights. Clean is honest by tier, city-clean in the cities and simple-clean at the pilgrim stops, and we calibrate expectations before booking so nothing arrives as a shock.

“Can luxury be arranged on this route?” To a real limit, yes. 5-star city nights on the aerial and Everest journeys, best available everywhere else, bedroom oxygen at the high stops, our own kitchens and a doctor on call through Tibet. Beyond that limit, geography decides, and no operator can outbid geography.

Frequently Asked Questions

Where do you stay on the Kailash Mansarovar Yatra?

In city hotels at Kathmandu, Lhasa and Beijing, town hotels at Kerung, Saga, Darchen, Shigatse and Taklakot, pilgrim guesthouses at Mansarovar, Dirapuk and Zuthulphuk, and tented camps on the Nepal-side journey. Our standard is the best available room at every stop, with oxygen in the bedrooms at our Tibet and high-altitude stays.

What are the hotels like in Darchen?

Real, and improving year by year. Most of the hotels we use have attached bathrooms, hot water in designated hours and heating support against the 4,570 m nights. Darchen is the best base on the kora circuit and holds the first proper bed after the kora ends.

Are there attached bathrooms on the Kailash yatra?

Yes at the city stops and at most town hotels, and we confirm the property at booking, because most town hotels now have them but not every one. At Mansarovar, Dirapuk and Zuthulphuk there are none. The toilets there are shared and squat style.

What are the toilets like at Mansarovar and the kora?

Shared squat toilets, Tibetan style, sometimes in a block outside, with no running water at some lakeside properties. Cold, basic and functional. Bring your own paper and sanitiser, and treat hand washing before meals as the health rule of the journey.

Do the rooms have heating on the Kailash yatra?

City hotels, yes. Town hotels, partially: electric blankets at the coldest stops, heated dining rooms at some, designated hot water hours. Pilgrim guesthouses, no room heating, and bedding is the answer: thick quilts, a sleeping hat, dry socks and warm layers.

Is hot water available on the yatra?

In the cities, at any hour. In the town hotels, in designated hours, usually posted at reception and usually in the evening. At the pilgrim stops, unreliable to absent. Wet wipes and a warm basin wash are plateau realities, and packing for them is good planning.

Is there oxygen in the rooms?

On our journeys, yes, at our Tibet and high-altitude stops: oxygen in the bedrooms, emergency oxygen in every vehicle and with the kora team, a doctor on call through Tibet. It means calm nights and quick relief at 4 a.m. It is support, not a cure.

Can I charge my phone at Dirapuk and Zuthulphuk?

Assume you cannot, and be pleasantly surprised when you can. Electricity at the kora stops is scarce, and charging is sometimes possible for a small fee when a generator runs. Charge everything at Saga and Darchen, and carry a power bank.

Is there WiFi on the Kailash yatra?

Reliable in the cities: Kathmandu, Lhasa and Beijing. Present sometimes, and slowly, in town hotels on the plateau. Effectively absent at Mansarovar and the kora stops. Buy a local SIM in Kathmandu for the Nepal legs, and let the plateau go quiet for a few days.

Can I get a single room on the Kailash yatra?

At the city and town stops, usually yes, for a surcharge we quote in writing before you confirm. At Mansarovar and the kora stops, no: the buildings have shared rooms by their nature. Solo travellers are paired thoughtfully, families grouped wherever possible.

Do I need a sleeping bag for the Kailash yatra?

Not on most journeys. Thick bedding is provided at every stop, and a sleeping-bag liner is the one sleep item we tell every traveller to pack. On the Lhasa Overland journey we provide the sleeping bags and trekking gear, and the tented camps are fully equipped.

Which route has the best accommodation?

The aerial darshan flight, which sleeps 5-star Kathmandu and best available Nepalgunj with every night low. Then the Lhasa routes, then the overland route via Kerung, then the helicopter and Simikot-Hilsa routes, then the Nepal-side camping journey. The ranking measures beds, not the worth of the yatra.

Planning your journey? Tell us your route and your month. We will tell you honestly what every night looks like before you book, and name the properties we are holding for your dates.