Recent foreign trip to China by India’s PM Narendra Modi will give instant benefit to thousands of pilgrims looking to make pilgrimage to Mount Kailash. This year Mansarovar Yatra to Mount Kailash will begin from June 22. But this time, due to new agreement with China, this travel can be done in only 19 days as compare to 22 days through old route, which includes 12 days of trek through rugged terrain mountains of Nepal and South Tibet.
Old traditional route to Mt kailash is from Lipulekh Pass. This has to be done by doing 12 days trek. Now they can crossover to China from Nathula Pass via Indian state of Sikkim and will taken by road to Darchen and then its only 2.5 days trek to Holy Mountain. The first batch of 50 pilgrims will cross over into Tibet from Sikkim on June 22 to bus it all the way to Darchen for their holy ‘parikrama’.
From Nathula, the pilgrims will travel 185 kilometres to Kangma where they will halt for the night. The next day (June 23), they will travel 295 kms to Lazi, and then another 477 kms to Zhongba on June 24. From Zhongba, they will travel 477 kms by bus to Darchen on June 25 and after a night’s halt, they will go to Qugu. They’ll undertake the parikrama of Mount Kailash and visit Mansarovar Lake on June 28 and 29 and the morning of June 30, after which they’ll take a bus to Zhongba and cross over through Nathula to Sikkim on July 3 and finally return to Delhi on July 5.
