8 Days Tibet Tour to Shannan

8 Days Tibet Tour to Shannan – Brief Introduction of Shannan

Shannan is the cradle of Tibetan nationality and the birthplace of Tibetan civilization. Many outstanding celebrities in Tibetan history were born in there. She created magnificent and colorful Yarlung Culture and won various fist one in Tibetan history with her open mind and wisdom. There are various historical relics and rich tourism resource in Shannan, including splendid mountains and rivers, mysterious sacred mountains and lakes, picturesque virgin forest, pleasant vast grassland, magnificent and dangerous Yarlung Zanpo Great Fall and famous cultural relics.

8 Days Tibet Tour to Shannan – Highlights in Shannan

As the birthplace of Tibetan civilization, in Shannan, there are most ancient palace – Yumbu Lakang, the earliest hall of temple in Tibet- Trandrunk Monastery, the earliest monastery with "Buddha, Dharma and Monk" three treasures – Samye Moanstery, the earliest field used to plant grain and the most supreme place for practicing - Qingpu Ashram and so on. All of these are must-go sites when you have 8 days Tibet tour to Shannan.

8 Days Tibet Tour to Shannan – Best Time

Shannan is suitable for tourism in the four seasons of a year. Shannan is located in the valley of middle stream of Yarlung Zanpo River, where belongs to temperate semi-arid, semi-moist plateau monsoon climate, endowed with the features of long winter, no summer, no severe cold winter and no hot spring and autumn. The annual average temperature is 5? to 8 ?, and the average temperature in the coldest month is 2? to 12?, while the average temperature in the warmest month is 10 to 18?. It is one of the warmest districts on Tibet High Plateau.

8 Days Tibet Tour to Shannan – Notes

Raining at night is an obvious feature of high plateau climate, which is more obvious in Shannan district. During June to September, the rain season of every year, the rate of raining at night will be over than 70 percents. Moreover, because the phenomenon of desertification in Yarlung Zanpo River valley is serious, in the areas of Zhanang, Naidong, Sangri in the Yarlung Zanpo River Valley, the strong wind will roll up large amount of dust and sands in spring and autumn in every year.