If you ever paid a visit to the Ninety-Nine Dragon Pool, you may image the scene of thousands lake distribute among mountains. It is hard to figure out the difference of two sight spots. But the similar points of two sight spots are high mountain, forest, lakes and grassland.
The Qianhu Mountain (Thousand Lakes Mountain) is named "Lamu Dongtso" in Tibetan language. It means "thousand lakes of Goddess" or "thousand lakes of fairy". There are over thousand lakes smaller than 10mu. Among these lakes, some of them are as round as bright mirror, some of then are as long as fish; some of them are wide and flat, some of them are deep and serene; some of them surround the low-lying land of mountain, some of them are surrounded by azaleas; some of them like linked pearls, some of them suspend among meadows alone; some of them are with odd stones over the water surface, some of them are as deep as bottomless abyss. The lakes are in various postures. If you visit the Qianhu Mountain in your Tibet tour from Shangri-la, you will enjoy the amazing scenery of lakes once.
The temperature of Qianhu Mountain is very low, and with pondings on the road. There is only residence of herdsmen on the mountain, and no shops. Hence, you are suggested to prepare enough food when you visit the Qianhu Mountain in your Tibet Tour from Shangri-La. Furthermore, a pair of comfortable and water-proof shoes is necessary.
The Qianhu Mountain is located in Small Zhongdian Village. You can visit it before coming into Shangri-La County or on the way back to Lijiang.
If you want to visit the Qianhu Mountain in your Tibet Tour from Shangri-La, you can first go to the Tuanjie Village in Small Zhongdian along the Yunnan-Tibet Highway, and then charter car from Tuanjie Village to the Qianhu Mountain. The cost of chartered car is about 400 CNY.
The Qianhu Mountain is untapped sight spots. The first one who found this area is local herdsman. Until now, there is only one mark of Qianhu Mountain on the road side of Tuanjie Village. Because the road condition to Qianhu Mountain is bad, you are suggested to choose the vehicle in good condition if you want to visit it in your Tibet tour from Shangri-La.