Khampa Nomad Treks, Rides and Tours

  • Since 2004. Our mission is to connect people across distant cultures through giving them time together
  • Nomad-led trekking in their own ancestral home
  • Personally get to know Tibetan nomads and their world on the high plateaus
  • Work hands-on with Tibetan highland horses and yaks
  • Experienced, professional English-speaking Tibetan guides and instructors. Our guides care deeply about their work!
  • 1/2-9 days

For a downloadable PDF of all trek and ride options, see here: full CNY trek and ride catalog or full USD trek and ride catalog.

Day Rides

  • Full or half day
  • Optional add-on temple tour with old thangka paintings

Day Tours by Car

  • Guided tours of the nearby areas and temples

Nomad homestays

  • Our home stays are not fake, even after all these years. That’s because nomads are special people.
  • Be a fly on the wall in a moving yak-hair home
  • Help out around the camp
  • Learn to milk yaks and make butter
  • Can be added to other treks, see booking forms on each trek booking page (like Gyergo Nunnery 3 day Trek).
  • 2-10 days

Horse Pack Trips

Riding or Hiking

High Grasslands and Sinkhole Lakes (also available as yak pack trips)

  • Trips to the high altitude grasslands west of Lhagang
  • Nomads and yaks everywhere
  • Grass and more grass
  • No tourists
  • Amazing views
  • Griffons and lammergiers in cliffs
  • 2-7 days

Sacred Mt Zhakra

  • Out-and-back, loop, and through-trips in the the snow mountains
  • Glacier views
  • Prayer flags and hot springs
  • Active mediation retreats in caves
  • 2-5 days

Serious Mt Zhakra

  • Include some technical hiking with rock scrambling required
  • Amazing remote areas
  • Wildlife and tracks
  • Snow leopard lands (but no we don’t see them)
  • 3-5 days

Sacred Mount Gongka

  • One-way trips along the Gongka Range
  • Glaciers, grasslands, huge land, huge mountains (Gongka is 7556 meters)
  • Nomad huts
  • Stay in Gongka Monastery
  • 6.5 day

Yak Pack Trips

Riding or Hiking
  • Learn to work with yaks
  • See the gorgeous grasslands and sinkhole lakes
  • Working with nomads is fun
  • Packing yaks mean we can bring beer and wine and sit in comfort
  • 1-9 days

Full Service Tours

  • Airport to airport fully guided tours (with trekking components)
  • Car Tours of Kham
  • Leave all the work to us!

Kham is known across Tibet as the Realm of the Horse. We have specialized in riding and pack tours with nomadic yak herders since 2004. All treks include packhorses (or yaks) and guides, fresh-cooked meals and coffee.

Join us!