Nyangre Folk Custom Village

Nyangre Folk Custom Village is located in Northern Lhasa about 6 kilometers away from the city center, which is highly praised as the pure attraction of Tibetan folk custom with profound history. About 4500 years ago this place has already been lived by ancient Tibetans. In the 7th century, Songtsen Gampo ordered his men to built a castle of 9 floors high. Sangputsa has created Tibetan characters here. Besides, the first om mani padme hum made carved on the stone has been preserved well in Nyangre Folk Custom Village.

Nyangre Folk Custom Village - Features

Nyangre Folk Custom Village is located in northern Lhasa, about 6 kilometers away from the city center. It is not far away so that many tourists would like to enjoy the ancient Tibetan local customs in Nyangre Folk Custom during Tibet tour.

Nyangre Folk Custom Village features many cultural attractions such as Sera Monastery - one of the largest monastery of Tibet, Papengang Monastery - the place originally created the Tibetan characters, and Kyugong Monastery - with more than 4000 years history, etc. The natural scenery with fresh air and pure people here attract lots of people to come. When you walk to the top of the Nyangre Folk Custom Village you can overview Lhasa city in southeast including Potala Palace, Johkang Temple, and Barkhor Street.

Nyrangre Folk Custom Village - Highlights

There are many attractions in Nyrangre Folk Custom Village, which respectively features handcraft exhibition area, folk custom exhibition area, Tibetan guest house exhibition area, and local Tibetan restaurant, etc. Besides, Nyrangre Folk Custom Village also holds the unique and wonderful Tibetan marriage wedding ceremony, which especially addicted west foreigners.

In the local house exhibition area, there are some Nyingka entertainment area (people stay together and have a picnic), pastoral areas tent display of northern Tibet, and Nyingchi wooden houses show, etc, which show Tibetan decorations in the house.

In the Tibetan cuisine exhibition area, tourists will have a chance to enjoy the rooms of oil manufacture and Tsipa making, meanwhile to taste the very traditional and authority butter tea, highland barley wine, yak, and famous Tibetan yogurt, etc.

In Nyingka entertainment area, the Tibetan drama and national dancing and singing will be performed and other performances such as horse racing and shooting. As a matter of fact, the folk art of Nyangre village is well known in Tibet region so that attracts lots of local Tibetans to watch.

In the handcraft exhibition area, we will see earthen pottery, Tibetan paper, Tibetan carpet pad, etc.

The calligraphy performance is exhibited at the foot of Papengang Monastery, which shows lots of cultural treasures.