#60daysinChina | Kangding Part I
Hi everyone,
So during my fourth weekend in China, I went to Kangding with the other interns - a small city (capital) located in the Ganzi Tibetan prefecture in Western Sichuan.
This trip has hands down been one of my most memorable ones. Kangding also definitely tops my list of 'most beautiful places I've visited'. The city is just filled with so much nature and beauty and I loved the fact that it's still very much untouched by tourism. Being able to experience Tibetan culture also added so much more to the experience (it also made up for me being unable to visit Tibet this time round haha).
Anyway, hope you enjoy the vlog: part II should be uploaded sometime soon!
Also if you're ever in Sichuan province, do make sure to visit this beautiful city :)
Kangding, Garze, Sichuan Province, China 康 定, 打 箭 爐
Kangding 康 定 or Dartsedo 打 箭 爐
Kangding is a county-city 縣 市 and also the capital seat of Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 甘 孜 藏 族 自 治 州 in Sichuan Province 四 川 省.
Kangding is commonly referred by its former name Dartsedo 打 箭 爐 or Darzedo, an important Tea Horse Exchange Market-City 茶 馬 互 市 in ancient times. In the late Qing Dynasty 清 朝 (1644-1911), Dartsedo was renamed to Kangding 康 定 which means Kham Land Peace-Settled 康 地 安 定.
At 2650 m above sea level, Kangding is surrounded by 3 mountains, namely Paoma Mountain 跑 馬 山, Guoda Mountain 郭 達 山 and Jiaulian Mountain 九 蓮 山, and sits at the confluence where Zheduo River 折 多 河 and Yala River 雅 拉 河 merge and eventually flow to the Dadu River 大 渡 河.
Photo studio Kangding TIBET_The Beauty in Kangding: Tibet in China
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Kangding
康定市 · དར་མདོ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།
County-level city
Kangding from above
Kangding from above
Location of Kangding City (red) within Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (yellow) and Sichuan
Location of Kangding City (red) within Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (yellow) and Sichuan
Kangding is located in SichuanKangdingKangding
Location of the city center in Sichuan
Coordinates (Kangding government): 29°59′56″N 101°57′25″ECoordinates: 29°59′56″N 101°57′25″E
Country People's Republic of China
Province Sichuan
Autonomous prefecture Garzê
Elevation 2,560 m (8,400 ft)
Population
• Major Nationalities Han
Tibetan
Time zone UTC+8 (China Standard)
Postal code
610000
Website kangding.gov.cn
Kangding
Chinese name
Chinese 康定
Hanyu Pinyin Kāngdìng
Postal Kangting
Transcriptions
Dartsedo (Darzêdo)
Simplified Chinese 打箭炉
Traditional Chinese 打箭爐
Hanyu Pinyin Kāngdìng
Transcriptions
Tibetan name
Tibetan དར་རྩེ་མདོ།
Transcriptions
Kangding (Chinese: 康定), or Dartsedo (Tibetan: དར་རྩེ་མདོ།; Chinese: 打箭炉), is a county-level city and the seat of Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan province of Southwest China. Kangding's urban center is called Lucheng, which has around 100,000 inhabitants.
Kangding To Litang Via Xinduqiao
This is the most beautiful part of the arduous 7-hour bus ride from Kangding to Litang. The bus climbs out of the valley, climbs over the first pass on a remarkably good road and the whole landscape changes to be totally Tibetan in character.
Ancient town of Pingle
Ancient town of Pingle was known as the first post on the Southern Silk Road, and had been the most important town on Tea-horse Road. The town was set up in the early 150 B.C..It is a famous town for its history and culture in China ,and also for its peaceful environment. The long history and civilization of the town was reflected by those ancient streets, ancient bridges, ancient roads, ancient weirs, ancient lanes and ancient trees.
Sihuan_Suining,a city lets your spirit free
To look for Suining at 30 degree north latitude. You can find an old and beautiful legend in the miraculous world. To look for Suining on the map of China. You can find an colorful landscape among the mountains and waters of Ba-Shu region. Suining,a city lets your spirit free.
Songpan - Sichuan - China (1 last)
Date Taken: 06.30.2015 - 72 -
Kangding
Kangding County, Sichuan province, China
a beatiful town with Tibetan culture
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China's Infrastructure Yakang Expressway Ya'an to Kangding has been opened to trial run 2019
Extending from the Sichuan Basin to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, it will pass through the Hengduan Mountains of deep mountains and gorges, almost without touching the ground. The design speed is 80 kilometers per hour, the roadbed width is 24.5 m, and the investment is estimated to be about 22 billion RMB
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Seda Larung Wuming Tibetan Buddhist Institute, founded in 1980, has tens of thousands of dormitory houses built on the surrounding hill slopes.
Filmed in October 2015 at the altitude of 4100 meters.
The place is now closed to foreign tourists.
Soundtrack: Aes Dana - Alignments
Thousand Stone Castle Kingdom, Danba | Tibet, China
Thousand Stone Castle Kingdom, Danba | Tibet, China
The county of Danba is located in Tibetan Plateau in western Sichuan, China. Damba means “Rock City”, but it sounds better to call it as the “kingdom of the thousand castles of stone.” This area of Tibetan-speaking hamlets perched stunningly on 8,000-foot-high mountainsides that loom over the town of Danba, has long been a way station on a circuit through the country's southwest, which is home to some of China's most exotic travel destinations. The groups of castles are scattered around strategic positions in the valley or near villages. Towers and citadels were built hundreds of years ago, for defensive purposes and passing messages between different villages. The height of these stone-built military structures is often above 30 meters, while the tallest tower measures 60 meters in height. Looking from afar, the scene of groups of towers and castles standing in the gorgeous Danba valley is breathtaking.
Danba or Rongzhag, is famous for Thousand stone castle kingdom, with many kinds of old stone castles like watchtower, Qionglong in ancient, scattered over the county, built as early as 1700BC. The watch tower in Shuopo village is very varities. There used to be 5,000 watchtowers in Danba, but only 343 that mostly date back 200 to 1,000 years remain. Local inhabitants have a custom of adding one storey to a watchtower to mark each year of a boy's growth until he reaches 18 years old. Usually 30 meters high, Dongba's highest watchtower stands at 60 meters, with four, five, eight or thirteen corners. During Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) wars in the area that lasted for 30 years these watchtowers were a vital aspect of military defense as they could provide human sanctuary for 15 days. The height of watch tower from 16-35meters, they stand on hillsides or the top of hills. The materials for the watch tower as stone slabs for the walls, stone blocks for the foundations. Usually designed as ploygonal shapes, such as square, pentagon, hexagon, and octagon, and the best watch tower is 13-sides watchtower as a pearl in Damba area (only about 3 13-sides watchtowers in Gyarong Tibetan area). 4kinds of Watchtower are protected very well in Rongzhag: Strategic Paas, Bezcon-Fire, Village and Dwelling as its different usage.
The county varies greatly in altitude, from peaks that are as high as 5,820 meters to river valleys as low as 1,700 meters. The Big Jinchuan and small Jinchuan Rivers meet here, marking the beginning of the Dadu River. The green mountains and waters, birds and flowers, is the most brilliant pearl of Kantse. The Tibetan-Gyarong style buildings and watchtowers are surrounded by fields and orchards.
The green mountains and waters, birds and flowers, is the most brilliant pearl of Kantse. The Tibetan-Gyarong style buildings and watchtowers are surrounded by fields and orchards. Danba men are strong and the women are pretty, special in Badi for the Beauty Valley. Stone castles as Thousands Watchtowers of Kingdom with it's various Gyarong folk residence as Jiaju for it famous. The Molto Holy mountains with it's unique Gyarong culture play important roles in Danba county.
The Tibetan-Gyarong style buildings and watchtowers are surrounded by fields and orchards. Danba men are strong and the women are pretty, special in Badi for the Beauty Valley. Stone castles as Thousands Watchtowers of Kingdom with it's various Gyarong folk residence as Jiaju for it famous. The Molto Holy mountains with it's unique Gyarong culture play important roles in Danba county.
Out of Danba. Our first of many stops to take pictures along the way. The scenery over the next 6 hours is simply stunning, as will be the bumpiness of the road.
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康定沙德鎮剪影 Shad Township, Kangding (China)
沙德鄉是四川省甘孜藏族自治州康定縣轄鄉,沙德鄉在縣境西南部,離縣城131公里.826平方公里,人口0.3萬.沙德鄉屬半農半牧鄉,農業主產青稞,小麥,豌豆,馬鈴薯.
Tagong, China | Find.Us.Far
We head further into the mountains to a small town called Tagong in historical eastern Tibet. We visit a monastery, a creek with prayers carved into the stones, visit 16,000 feet elevation, and again try some different food.
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The Danba Market, Eastern Tibetan Plateau, China
For a small town, the Danba Market was crowded, noisy and interesting. The Gyarong (Jaw-Row) people making their way dressed in colorful clothing with one black braid across the top of their heads, carrying goods in straw baskets on backs, browsing traditional shops and then walking into ultra modern stores to see what's new in fashion...carrying a cell phone, of course.
Fortunately, no yak meat sitting on the street.
The legacy of the Long March lives on in SW China's Ganzi
It's easier to get into heaven than travel into Sichuan. This excerpt from an ancient Chinese poem underlines the difficulties faced by the Red Army 80 years ago. Stories of how they marched against all odds can still be heard in Sichuan Province, from Tibetans in Ganzi Autonomous Prefecture. But how do the historic stories affect modern Tibetans living in Ganzi?
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