THINGS TO DO IN QINGHAI, CHINA | Qinghai Travel Guide | Tibetan Plateau
Known as the Tibetan Plateau or Rooftop of the World, Qinghai province was an unchartered beauty for western travelers ... not now. I spent 9 days traveling it with other bloggers,.. Here's the best things to do in Qinghai China.
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Qinghai Tourist Attractions: 15 Top Places to Visit
Planning to visit Qinghai? Check out our Qinghai Travel Guide video and see top most Tourist Attractions in Qinghai.
Top Places to visit in Qinghai:
Lake Kokonor, Chaka Salt Lake, Haixi, Xining Dongguan Mosque, Museum of China Tibetan Medicine Culture, Menyuan Rape Flower Scenic Spot, The Birds Island, Sand Island of Qinghai Lake, Qinghai Zhakanbula National Geological Park, Zhuo'er Mountain, Qinghai Plateau, Longwu Temple, Tulou Temple of Beishan Mountain, Nanchan Temple, Hoh Xil Nature Reserve, Jiuzhi Nianbaoyuze Mountain Scenic Resort
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Kanbula National Forest Park - China Travel 4K
Hiking in Kanbula National Forest Park, China Highlights - Visit Kanbula National Forest Park, Travel in Qinghai 4K
Located in the northwest of Jianzha County (jiān zhā xiàn 尖扎县), 131 kms from Xining, the Kanbula National Forest Park (kǎn bù lā guَ jiā sēn lيn gōng yuلn 坎布拉国家森林公园) covers an area of 39.17 square km. The park is featured with its stone peaks of Danxia landform, forests and man-made sight. This scenic spot consists of hills, eroded hillock, and small basins among mountains, with 50 tourist attractions, of which Danxia landform, Buddhist temples, and Lijia Gorge Power Station (lǐ jiā xiل shuǐ diàn zhàn 李家峡水电站) are the highlights.Kanbula National Forest Park is an ideal place for sightseeing, worshiping, and summer resort. The weather amid the mountains can change very frequently. The middle segment of Nanzong Valley, which extends 5 km, should be the most beautiful place in the park.
The Kanbula National Forest Park is more than 200 kilometers away from Xining. It’s located in Kanbula Town, Jianzha County, and the Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (huلng nلn zàng zْ zى zhى zhōu 黄南藏族自治州). It’s 2,100 to 400 meters above sea level, covering an area of about 4,774 hectares. It borders on the Yellow River in the north, abutting against the famous Lijiaxia Hydroelectric Power Station. It’s the red conglomerate landscape. The surface of the rock mass is as red as the red glow. The mountains take on various shapes. They look like columns, towers, walls, forts, human beings or animals. They are very lifelike, such as, the Scissors Rock, the Waiting-For-Husband Cliff, the Stone Bamboo Shoot, the Fairies Get-Together, etc. There are eighteen perilous peaks in the Kanbula Region. Two of them, the A’qiongnanzong (ā qiَng nلn zōng 阿琼南宗) and the Neibaozong, are the most famous. In addition, the religious culture in Kanbula has a long history. Kanbula is the regeneration place of the Tibetan Buddhist. There are four temples in it. It is the only Buddhist resort where monks and nuns coexist.
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A’qiongnanzong Temple
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The A’qiongnanzong Peak is surrounded by steep cliffs. There is only one path with stone steps, through which people can get to the top of the peak. The major portion of the path is cut out of the cliffs. At the top of the peak stand A’qiongnanzong Temple and several small caves. Many Buddha statues are displayed in the caves. A great number of people come to here all the year around. A’qiongnanzong Temple is the largest nunnery of Ningma sect of Tibetan Buddhism with more than 1,100 years of history. It is a historic site where three eminent monks from Tibet coming here to practice Buddhism and do missionary work have inhabited. In the period of Zangpulangdamamie Buddha, Tubo, the middle period of the 9th century, the three eminent monks come here. It is more than 1100 years up to now. Here, the sticking up peaks, the peculiar terrain of mountains, verdant woods, and the prattling spring water form magnificent scenery.
Tel: 0973-8728181
Opening Hours: 8:00-17:00
Admission Fee: CNY35
Nanzong Buddhist Nunnery
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Nanzong Buddhist Nunnery is located in the area of Kanbula, where the religious cultures are very advanced. As a Nyingma nunnery, it was built in Yuan Dynasty, with a history more than 1100 years. According to the legend, it is founded by a renowned hereditary living Buddha whose name is Gulangcang (gǔ làng cāng 古浪仓). Before 1958, the nunnery covered an area of 6.59 acres, with a Preaching Hall, a Buddhist Prayer Room and 150 Nun rooms.
Location: It is located in the area of Kanbula.
Transportation: Tourist can take a long-distant bus from Xining to Longwu county, where you can transfer to Wutun.
Opening Hours: The whole day
Admission Fee: CNY 20
Danxia Landform
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Kanbula is well-known around the world for its Danxia karsts or hills. These land formations feature extraordinarily steep cliffs, elevated caves and archways and special ‘mesa’ or table tops. The mountains come in diverse shapes and sizes, likened to giants, castles, pillars and so on. The land formations are a record of the forces of gravity that have shaped this area, marking the transition from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to the Loess Plateau.
Kanbula National Forest Park
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Location: In northwestern of Jainca County, 131 kms from Xining
Tel: 0971-3522252
Transportation: Take a bus to get to the Lijiaxia Hydroelectric Power Station at the Xining Long-Distance Bus Station at the cost of 20 Yuan. It’s 90-kilometer journey.
Opening Hours: 08:00-18:00
Admission Fee: CNY 30/person (For reference)
Recommended Golden Season: May through October
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Best Things To Do in Turpan, China
Turpan Travel Guide. MUST WATCH. Top 10 things you have to do in Turpan. We have sorted Tourist Attractions in Turpan for You. Discover Turpan as per the Traveler Resources given by our Travel Specialists. You will not miss any fun thing to do in Turpan.
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List of Best Things to do in Turpan, China
Ancient City of Jiaohe (Yarkhoto)
Turpan Museum
Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves
Ancient City of Gaochang (Kharakhoja)
Karez System
Emin Minaret (Su Gong Ta)
Flaming Mountains (Huoyan Shan)
Uygur Ancient Village
Grape Valley
Shanshan County
Yak Heads and The Cure for Cancer in Kangding: Tibet in China 1
The Tibetan culture is unique and should not be missed, however in order to visit Tibet now you need a special permit and you have to take a tour. We decided to head to western Sichuan, where the beautiful landscape is scattered with authentic Tibetan villages. The area is known as the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, and it's towns are actually more Tibetan than the capital of Tibet, Lhasa.
Our first stop was Kangding, the 'gateway to Tibet', and a really cool town to hangout in. We take a short hike up Paoma mountain, which offers some memorable views. We also check out Kangding market, including Yak bridge where butchered yaks are aplenty. Finally, we find the parasitic fungus that's said to be able to cure cancer.
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Stunning Rape Flowers in Menyuan County
This beautiful man-made landscape in Menyuan County of Qinghai Province, China, is the birthplace of northern spring rapeseed flowers and the largest spring rapeseed growing area in the country - even in the world, with a growing area of more than 33,000 hectares, stretching over tens of kilometers.
Spring rapeseed flowers growing in Menyuan County can trace its history back more than 1,800 years. They come into bloom between July 5th and 25th with the best flowering time from July 10th to the 20th. #VividChina
Visit Xiahe, Gansu Province, China 4K
Visit Xiahe, Gansu Province, China 4K - Labrang Monastery, Prayer wheels
Xiahe is an ethnically-Tibetan town in Gansu Province, China.
The town lies along one main street parallel to the Daxia River. The Chinese section (commercial) lies to the eastern end of the road and the Tibetan section lies at the western end. In between lies the monastery.
Xiahe has developed along with the influx of visitors. Some old timers may bemoan that it has lost its off-the-beaten-path charm, but Xiahe is still far from being overrun with hawkers, karaoke or foot massage joints as have many other attractions in China.
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For most travelers, Labrang Monastery will keep them occupied for couple of days or more. There is graceful landscape and colorful people. The surrounding region harbors a few worthwhile day-trip destinations, such as the Sangke and Ganjia grasslands. .
Labrang Monastery
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Literally the centre of town, the monastery is the main focus for visitors and residents alike with all social and commercial activity deriving from it. The Monastery was established in 1709 and expanded greatly in following centuries to become one of the six great monasteries of the Gelukpa sect (Yellow Hat) of Tibetan Buddhism. The resident monks wear maroon robes, black UGG-style boots and shaggy yellow Mohawk shaped hats, sometimes pitched to impressive heights.
Despite its venerable history, many of the buildings and religious artefacts were destroyed during the Cultural Revolution. What you see now was built during the late 1980s or even more recently. The buildings construction differs from others in the region, being built with stone blocks rather than rammed earth, but the whitewashed multiple-level square designs follow the typical style of Tibetan monastic buildings.
It'd be easy to spend days meandering about the alleys between monks quarters and prayer halls, or follow pilgrims spinning prayer wheels on a loop around the Kora. Despite all the tickets and tours, it's still an active Monastery and you may chance upon the monks engaged in their religious activities.
There are few English signs (except for the ubiquitous No Photo, Ticket needed), making it somewhat beguiling to understand what you are looking at. An English tour leaves from the ticket office at 10:15AM and 3:15PM. Though the guide provides decent explanations as they take you though the halls, some may feel the experience is a bit rushed. As you would expect, no photos are allowed inside buildings and the monks outside are camera shy when conducting a ceremony.
You can explore most of the grounds freely but a ticket is needed to enter some of the smaller chapels (¥10) or the main halls (¥60), whether you join the tour or not. Even with a ticket in hand the halls may be closed or off limits while a ceremony is being conducted. If you prefer to try before you buy, it's not difficult to blunder in for a look without anyone asking for a ticket.
Some places worth seeking out include;
Gongtang Chorten, (Near the river). A newly built golden topped Chorten that you can climb. ¥20.
Man Jus'ri Temple, (The rear of the courtyard behind the ticket office). Definitely the most impressive hall with several enormous, elaborately decorated, Buddha statues along the rear wall and a pair of small rooms behind. Pilgrims make a clockwise circuit, stopping to make monetary offerings to brightly coloured yak-butter sculptures and pray to silver Chortens containing living Buddhas. At times the hall may reverberate with chanting monks. ¥60.
Prayer Wheels. Lining about half of the minor Kora are brightly painted wooden drums, spun by an endless procession of mainly elderly pilgrims hoping their efforts will be rewarded in the next life. On each corner is a small room housing huge lumbering wheels that ring a bell with each rotation.
Thangka sunning Terrace, (Over the river on the hillside). A flat stone slope on the hillside where a giant Thangka is rolled out during the Tibetan New year. The rest of the time its a nice place to sit and get an overview of the Monastery. Free.
Qinghai 2005 Part 10
This is the final clip in the Qinghai film, and is a montage of highlights, showing the best of the people, places and wildlife that we saw on our expedition.