What's New?♥ Pingan:Hikes in the Rice Terraces
The magnificent rice terraces in the north of Yangshuo provide easy and marvelous hiking prossibilites to discover beautiful minority villages. |
♥ Darchen:Mount Kailash Kora ()
Access: All Visitors
Kailash is a holy mountain to four religions- Tibetan Buddhism, Bon, Hinduism and Jainism. Pilgrims from all over Tibet, India and Nepal make the arduous pilgrimage to the mountain every year. Most pilgrims come to do the 55 km kora or circling around the mountain. Buddhists and Hindus will walk in the clockwise direction while Bon does it anti-clockwise. |
♥ Yuanyang:Walking around Yuanyang ()
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One of the best ways to get close to the people and enjoy the breathtaking views is to walk from one village to another. There are walking paths that connect all the villages, away from the main road. These paths follow the contour of the hills and some of them criss-cross the terraces. Yuanyang offers great walking possibilities. Here is a two-day-walk from Qingkou to Laohuzui via Duoyishu. |
♥ Bingzhongluo:Trek with the horse caravan into Tibet. ()
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The road from Bingzhongluo into Tibet is part of the route known as "Tea Horse Route". In the old days, Tibetans routinely operated mule and horse caravans on arduous long journeys from here to Lhasa, and beyond, to Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim and India. Tea was the main commodity carried on such caravans. These caravan routes became vital arteries for cultural, economic and religious exchange between Tibet and South Asia as the tea trade flourish; just as the Silk Road was, connecting China and Europe. |
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