Shigatse Tour - Shigatse Geographic Environment

Shigatse originally named from "the fertile manor " in Tibetan language. It is located at the confluence of Yarlung Zangbo River and Nianchu River in southern Tibet, which has been the center of politic, religion and culture of Tsang (west-central Tibet) of Tibet, as well as the preaching place of Panchens. It covers an area of 3875 square kilometers and is about 3836 meters above the sea level.

Shigatse Tour - Shigatse Geographic Environment

As a matter of fact, Shigatse has ever been "the capital", i.e, the center of Tsang of Tibet. It is located at the highland of 3800m high as the second larger city of Tibet as of now.

You may imagine how beautiful or amazing the scenery there is since it has been regarded as "the fetile/best manor" of Tibet, or feel it during your Shigatse Tour. The charming scenery and unique Tibetan life style here are formed by many factors, culture, history, geograophy, and temperature, etc. The average temperature of the coldest month is about 2-12?, while the average temperature of the hottest month of about 10-18? in Shigatse, the annual mean average temperature is about 6.3?. There is no exceeding cold winter or exceeding hot summer, both of which are absolutely the reasons of your plan of Shigatse tour. The natural beauty and the amazing scenery giving as a gift should be seen by everyone and that is the reason why it exsits.

On the other hand, Shigatse is situated in a valley that the weather is relatively better than some regions of Tibet. If you are going to ask when is the best time to have a Shigatse Tour, it is a whole year.