Plateau Tours & Adventures

Who We Are?

Over the years working in travel industry before we established, we were often asked by our clients to come up with their dreamed trips to China, committed to taking care of all travel desires, to showing them staggering landscape and brilliant culture, to introducing them the fascinating people, and to sharing both passions and love for a spiritual journey. All of these brought us a deep sense of fulfillment that evokes Plateau Tours & Adventures a start from there since 2005, while ‘Travel with Your Dream’ becomes the company motto and our firmly creed, as well as the concept of travel that we truly appreciate and all time uphold. Gathering a small group of expertise in the travel industry with the same travel ethos and our wealth local knowledge, we therefore are dedicated to create bespoke trips with the different experience for every heart of journeys, from country’s iconic site in a unique way to a remote untouched landscape, from a comfortable sightseeing tour to an intrepid adventure challenge, and our aim is to keep it that way.

Our company name of Plateau means our tours are mainly available through Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, two of the three China’s largest highlands. Our exclusive travel knowledge is first started from the years’ experiences that we organize and operate travel groups across the Tibetan highland, include Tibet TAR, Kham and Amdo Tibetan regions, bringing the most intrigued journeys to a land of mystery and fantasy, some are rarely penetrated by westerners. As we has been a sustainable and enthusiastic travel organizer team, we expanded our tourism regions to we loved Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, where is Yunnan and Guizhou provinces located, diffused by a minority-rich presence. Long term local based among two plateaus with our team and joint expertise, our excellent relationships with local concerned government, hotels and other suppliers ensure that you will have an exquisite tour design, the perfect destination combination and an entirely smooth trip; you will get all of adventure travel without any of the hassle; you can relax knowing that you are in really good and safe hands.

As a young and innovative tour company, Plateau Tours & Adventures has no grand ambitions to expand huge business enterprises. In fact, we are proud to be here, to listen to your wishes and responsible for creating journeys that match personal interests attention to details. With the passion we have for what we do, we are very happy we could concentrate on the locations we know and love, also it is a way that we give back to the places we love by bringing in spirit of you to these amazing places. With this ethos, we offer tours and adventure trips focusing on China’s two great plateaus, that is the region of China’s Southwest, the remote China at its most diverse and exotic. At this lush and invigorating land, everything you expect a China trip to be is here: there’s history, yummy food, awe-inspiring landscapes, off-the-beaten track getaways, modern cityscapes, a rich and abundant ethnic backdrop, and the irresistible allure of the immense outdoors.

Constantly improving the way we do things, responding to changes and adding new ideas, our tours and adventures are designed in principle with the local people, culture and eco-system in mind. We believe that is the real experiences of a travelling, the true travelling! By staying true to our roots in the Southwest China, we are delightful provide you passionate and knowledgeable guides with our distinctive and original trips that allow our clients to take a journey inside-track of the region, and into those special and secret places we all love to discover, experience of cultures, cuisines, history, people, natural beauty and change.

What Makes Us Different?

We’re pioneers and specialists in creating original itineraries and wide range of adventure tours in Western China including Tibet. Before we established, one of our expert worked in the press as a tourism editor, and rest of our joint experts have been working in the travel industry for years, a superior expert even works as a travel advisor since 1979 that time China is still not fully open to the outside world. At 80 years age, the expert is still sharing his passion and travel experience with us. With extensive knowledge and experienced professions, our team has the prescient and unique insight for the travel scope, and this is our bedrock to know what and how to do the unparalled tours, to meet the challenges of the new age travel, and cultivated enough to gratify all savvy travelers. These are the reason we start the customized tours at the earliest and gains lots of ‘firsts’ in travel fields.

A few our ‘firsts’ that our experts and team have pioneered include:

  • The First Sichuan - Tibet overland trip with group from Germany
  • The First foreign expedition & scientific research to Namche Barwa Grand Canyon with group from United States
  • The First Euro - Asian Continent Overland caravan group from Netherlands
  • The First Birdwatching tour group from Great Britain
  • The First Kham Tibetan area travel group from France
  • The First Yunnan, Sichuan and Tibet overland group from France
  • The First Tibet Mt. Kailash travel group with the 23 countries travellers

As the seasonal travellers of ourselves, we know how to travel and deeply realized that an unforgettable trip is not determined by which destination you travel to but the way you travel that makes the difference. We believe that a successful trip not only delivers an unsurpassable journey for travellers, but that it also about the truly experience to get you behind the scenes of a destination, with its places, people and authentic local lives, either for a tour or an adventure. We’re therefore excited to offer you types of tours to experience differently that are for the soul of journeys.