Dege
Siguniangshan Mountain
Baiyu Monastery
Daocheng yading
2014 Mysterious Kham Kingdom Join-in Overland Tours
Kham Tibetan is famous for their generosity to friends, bravery in wars, and sincerity in Buddhism. Offer the overland travel service in this wide and free land.China Exploration has long been expert in the overland tour.
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Chengdu is the paradise for tourist, and in this vast Tibetan plateau of West Chengdu, and a lot of snow mountains, grassland, Tibetan monasteries can be visited with convenient transportation, among them Yading National Park of Daocheng is attracting tourist worldwide now, Dege is one of the largest and most important of the regional kingdoms in Kham. China Exploration would take you to the deep land of this beautiful land.
China Exploration has long been expert in the overland tour: we know how to make self-drive overland in China ,how to enter china with a car,how to drive into china with permits, as well as how to get china driving license for foreigners.We will bring tourist to the remote and original reserved places and show you the authentic country side of this land.
Highlights: Danba, Ganzi, Dege, Baiyu, Daocheng
Itinerary:
D1 Sept 5th , 2014 Chengdu / Rilong / Danba
Your Kham tour starts in the early morning today, your driver will take you to Danba all the day. It is 340 kms’ mountain road, you will cross either Mt. Jiajinshan of 4000 ms or Mt. Balangshan of 5040 ms. Which route to take depend on the road condition.
But for us, we prefer route of Mt. Balangshan, there is a Chinese saying The Boundless vista is at the perilous peak. In this tour, tourist can enjoy the cloud sea and more snow peaks, also in the other side of Mt. Balangshan is paradise of giant panda, Wolong Nature Reserve.
And at the mountain pass of Mt. Balang, you have chance to enjoy the beautiful peaks of Siguniangshan. Mt. Siguniangshan got its name from the 4 snow peaks of 6250ms, 5355m, 5279ms, 5025ms, means 4 girls mountain. It is the paradise for mountain climbing actually, freshman can start from the lowest, and veteran can chanllenge 6250ms.
Arrive in Danba in the late afternoon, and your will go directly to Jiajv Tibetan village in the mountain. And you will make a home stay in local Tibetan family guesthouse. And China Exploration would like to invite you try dinner of Tibetan food tonight!
D2 Sept 6th , 2014 Danba / Tagong / Daowu / Ganzi
Get up in the early morning to breathe the clean air of mountain, and walk around in the village. It’s widely spread that the girls of Danba are the most beautiful in Tibetan area, and local villagers also have the folklore of holding beauty contest every year, try your chance!
Tibetan in Danba care very much about the beauty of their houses, so their houses are normally built in good location, beautifully decorated outside and inside. Their composed a beautiful picture together with the mountain, fields and plants around them. And Jiajv village is the most beautiful in Danba, so China Exploration will take you up the best point to watch the village and mountain.
After tour of Jiajv village, head for Sopo Tower house, and then you will head for Ganzi county 331 kms away. It is all paved mountain road, and the wide Tibetan plateau will be unfolded in front you, grassland after grassland , mountain after mountain. In this tour, you can not miss Huiyuan Monastery for sure. It is a small monastery just a few miles off the main road, but it has high position in Tibet. The 7th Dalai Lame used to take refuge here due to invasion of Mongolian to Lhasa in 1728, and the 11th Dalai Lama was also born here in 1838.
Arrive in Ganzi county in the late afternoon. Ganzi county is the busy transportation hub in North Kham area, tours to Baiyu, Dege and Xinlong, all will pass by here, naturally it turned out to be the most prosperous city in this Tibetan area.
D3 Sept 7th , 2014 Ganzi / Dege
Ganzi is a beautiful city sitting in a basin surrounded by beautiful snow mountains. The snow peaks are Gods protecting this sacred land. And the Shwedagon monastery of Garz is well known because of the true friendship between Living Buddha Goeda and Red Army General Mr. Zhude.
Today your destination is Dege, the most important Buddhism base of Tibetan Lamaism. Many of Buddhism Sections founded their refuge in Dege when Lang-Dar-Ma cruelly killed Buddhist in Tibet in mid century , a lot of monasteries were well reserved here, such as Dzogchen Monastery, Palpung monastery, Gartok Monastery, etc.
Today’s overland tour is a bit hard due to the big challenge of Mt. Bird Mountain, also called Mt. Quershan, the mountain pass is 5050ms. But the adventure is also deserved, you will enjoy the beautiful snow mountain as well as beautiful Yilhun Lhatso lake.
Arrive in Dege in the late afternoon. It is a small town located in the deep valley, it is more reserved Tibetan town, horse, yaks, herdsman, and monks all freely walk on the street. After dinner, you can free to walk.
D4 Sept 8th , 2014 Dege / Baiyu
Today you will make a pilgrimage tour in Dege Buddhism Printing House firstly. It is boasting the best wooden printing house remained in China, and their books of Tengyur and Kangyur were sold to Nepal, India and Bhutan. Workers are still working in traditional way, using woodblock and cinnabar to print the Buddhism scripture. And it is also shocking your heart seeing poor Tibetan making their pilgrimage in their special way.
And Gengqin monastery is also a famous monastery of Nyingma section in Dege, and you will also drop a tour here.
After tour in Dege, you will head for Baiyu county about 100 kms away. Tour will be along Yangtze river mostly, which is the boundary of Tibet Auto administration region and Sichuan province. The road is a bit bumpy due to construction, but just relax and enjoy the mountain, Tibetan village en route.
Arrive in Baiyu in the afternoon. The Palyul Kloster Monastery in Baiyu is the most beautiful, the whole monastery is built up the mountain, golden palaces shining under the Sun. Guide will take you up the monastery and have a bird’s eye view of the whole city.
D5 Sept 9th , 2014 Baiyu / Ganzi
Today you will return Ganzi from Ganbai road, which is a bad road of 233 kms, but tour is still deserved today, it is sparse mountain and grassland en route, but provide you good chance of encountering with wildlife as well as beautiful nature. And you can drop a tour in Yachen Monastery, which is newly built in 1980, but developed very fast, almost a city now, more than 10,000 monks stayed there now!
D6 Sept 10th , 2014 Ganzi / Xinlong / Litang
It is a long overland tour again today, and our destination will be Litang. Enjoy the huge mountains en route. Arrive in Litang in the afternoon.
D7 Sept 11th , 2014 Litang / Daocheng / Shangrila Village
The picture of Tibetan plateau today will continue to be unrolled for you today. Litang is boasting the highest town because of its sea level of 4014 meters. And it is also an important religious city in Tibetan plateau, Choekhorling Monastery, or we say Litang Monastery, is the largest monastery in South Kham area. The huge monastery was built along the mountain, which made it extremely spectacle in view. And Litang is also the birth place of the 7th Dalai Lama, also the deeply loved land by the 6th Dalai Lama, Tsangyang Gyatso, who is the most famous Lama poet. And the horse racing festival of Litang in August is listed as the TOP 3 horse festival in Tibetan plateau.
In the afternoon you will arrive in Shangrila Village, also called Riwa village. It is strange that our tours overcome one by one snow mountain and eventually we arrived at warm village of low level.
D8 Sept 12th , 2014 Shangrila Village / Yading National Park / Daocheng
After 30 kms mountain road up the mountain, you will arrive in Yading National Park. Just before your arrival in Yading village, the 3 peaks of Yading already rose from the green forest and thrust into the blue sky like three Gods sitting in the sky, just Kneel down!
With the help of sightseeing car, tour in Yading is much easier now, just 30 minutes, you can reach Lorong Yak Farm, where you can closely admire the peak of Yambeyong. And if your physical conditions support, you can start a hiking tour to the two beautiful lakes, Milk Lake and Pearl Lake. They are two small lakes lying at the foot of snow peak, and they are said to be tears of God.
Descend the mountain in the afternoon and return Daocheng city, the beautiful Tibetan villages and houses will company you in this 3 hours’ driving tour. en route. Arrive in Daocheng in the late afternoon, and then you can have a free walk in this quiet town.
D9 Sept 13th , 2014 Daocheng / Litang / Yajiang / Kangding
It is a long tour overland today, but the beautiful landscape of Tibet remains endless charm to tourist. In the late afternoon arrive in Kangding, the capital city of Ganzi Tibetan prefecture, only 2560 meters in sea level. Free to walk around in this Tibetan town in the late afternoon. Kangding is also known for the folk song of Kangding Love Song.
D10 Sept 15th , 2014 Kangding / Luding / Chengdu
It is an overland tours again, 380kms for about 7 hours’ driving, half on express way and half mountain road on No 318 state highway. The landscape will change from mountain area to wide plain gradually. In the route you will travel through Mt Erlangshan, which used to be the First dangerous gate to Tibet, but now tunnel makes trip much easier, just a few minutes you will cross the mountain.
You will also drop a tour in Luding Bridge, which has played key role in the early history of Chinese communist party. If they were stopped by the bridge, so they would facing the danger of perished by Chiang Kai-shek army, but God helped them, and the brave heros crossed the bridge naked with only chains after fierce battle !
In the late afternoon you will arrive in Chengdu, and your tour of Chengdu finished today with sweet memory.
Prices ( US $): 1850.00 / per person
Departure time: Sept 5th, 2014.
Our prices included:
1. Entrance tickets: The tickets of all the scenic spots listed above.
2. Guide. An English speaking guide will be provided, who will accompany you from the start of tour to end of tour.
3. Private Transfers during tour. Our guide and driver will pick-up you at your hotel on time and drop-off you after the tours. And an air-conditioned vehicle will be provided during the tour.
4.Hotel. Provide 9 nights’ hotel, 3-4 star level hotels in Ganzi, Dege, Riwa, Daocheng and Kangding, one night in the home guesthouse of Jiajv village. Every two people share one room.
5. Service Charge & Government Taxes.
6. Insurance. We provide a free insurance of accident and casualty for each traveler. The highest refund is RMB 300000.00. Detailed terms please view our contract with Ping An of China.
Our prices not included :
1. Your hotel in Chengdu
2. Your meals.
3. The entrance ticket of Siguniangshan, you will not enter it.
Note : We can customize the tours for you, also we provide service of hotel booking and private airport pick-up in Chengdu for you if you require. Either deluxe hotel or tourist hotels, all depend on your budget. Below we provided the various hotel rates in each cities, you can choose them accordingly.
