Tibet Trekking Tours – Trekking to Tshurphu Monastery and Yampachen
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Tibet Trekking Tours – Trekking to Tshurphu Monastery and Yampachen

Update: Apr. 27th, 2012

Tibet Trekking Tours

Long time ago, there was a popular sentence said that the place passing by Xiyaer and Eyaer on the west side and Gar, Zhamula on the east side is nameless, and there is no level in the society. Until now, there also keeps rich mysterious color. When you have Tibet tekking tours to there, you will find the real scene of it – an energetic magic world.

Tibet Trekking Tours – Chiangtang

The Chiangtang is also named the grassland in northern Tibet, which means "more imaginative" in Tibetan language. It covers 600,000 square kilometers, which is half of the total area of Tibet. This vast land is full of mysterious color. Now, to protect the Chiangtang Grassland and precious animals has become an important national policy. In 1993, the Chiangtang has been approved as natural reserve area by Tibet Autonomous Region People's Government. Now, the birds in Namtso can freely fly on the sky.

Tibet Trekking Tours – Tshurphu Monastery

The Tshurphu Monastery is located on the upstream of Tshurphu River, northwest of Duilong Deqin County. The scale of Tshurphu Monastery is very large, including scripture hall, chapel, hall, College of Buddhism, study hall, living Buddha private residence, monks' residence, pulpit and some other buildings. Now, there are over 300 monks in the monastery. There are large amount of precious historical relics in Tshurphu Monastery, which recorded the history of Tibet.

Tibet Trekking Tours – Yampachen

'When you first arrive in Chiangtang, the cold and loneness will make you feel sad. Once you come into her, the grassland will become warm house." That's the Yampachen brings to you. The geothermal energy, giant energy in earth, once breaks out will become precious wealth of human beings. This is a land about 40 square kilometers wide. As early as 1970s, the work of developing and using geothermal energy has started. The Yampachen is located in the Damxung County, 91.3 kilometers away from the Lhasa City. The geothermal field is very flat, and the latitude is 4300 meters, while the latitude of the mountains on the south and north side is over 5500 meters or 6000 meters. The annual average temperature of geothermal field which Zangbuqu passing by is 5?, while the annual average temperature in this area is 2.5?. The economy of the area around Yampachen mainly focuses on stock raising, including little agriculture. The Qinghai-Tibet Highway and Chinese and Nepal Highway pass by there from east side and north side, so the transportation at here is convenient. Now, the Yampachen geothermal fields area has developed into a small town, you can find shops, restaurants, hotels at here. With the Western Development carrying out, the Yampachen attracted worldwide attention again.

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