Lhasa-Shigatse
At the crossing of Beijing Road between Balangxue and Good Day Hotel in Lhasa, private buses to Shigatse are available from 7:30 am-20:00pm, 38yuan per person, 8-hour distance. There are also large buses at the bus station in Lhasa with longer hours and expensive price however.
Reference rents of cars:
Imported cross-county cars of common version: 3.00-3.5yuan/kilometer
Imported cross-county cars of luxurious version: 3.4-4.5yuan/kilometer
Microbus with 20 seats: 5.5-6.5yuan/kilometer
Coach with 40 seats: 7.00-8.00yuan/kilometer
Shigatse-other places
There are regular coaches for Lhasa or Sakya and irregular ones for Yatung everyday or on alternate days, whose schedule and number of runs depend on the number of passengers.
There are buses for other places at the bus station in Middle Liberty Road. Private microbuses to Gyantse, Lhatse or Lhasa are also available on road or in the west of Tashilumpo Monastery Square, scheduled from 7:30am-20: 30pm. Those who want to go to Lhatse should wait in the west of Tashilumpo Monastery Square (06:00am-21:00pm), the buses won‘t start until with capacity crowd so it is possible for them to cancel the previous plan due to small number of passengers. Those who choose Gyantse or Lhatse can take private medium coach outside the bus station (early moring-15:00pm). Those whose destination is Lhasa should wait for the bus at the place opposite the Industrial and Commercial Bureau in Gongjuelin Road.
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