A Mountain in Tibet

Dates: July - October 2009
Duration: 21 days
Price Guide : £2600 (Overland)
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In the East, there lies this legendary mysterious mountain called Kailas that is revered equally by the Buddhist, Hindus, Jains and other spiritual traditions. They consider the mountain as the centre of earth and the source of four mighty rivers: the sacred Ganges, the Indus, the Sutlej and the Tsangpo - Brahmaputra that flows into the plains of India. The focus of our journey is pilgrimage to this holy peak of Mt. Kailash and the sacred lake Manasarovar. As the contemporary scholar Gyurme Dorje writes, 'Of all the special destination for the travellers to reach, Mount Kailash is surely one of the most sublime and sacred'.

It is written in the Skanda Purana:
'As the dew is dried up by the morning sun so are sins of men dried up by the sights of Himalaya, where Shiva lived and where Ganga falls from the foot of Vishnu like the slender thread of lotus flower. There are no mountains like the Himalayas for in them are Kailas and Manasarovar'.

Quoted from the book ' A Mountain in Tibet' by Charles Allen