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Potala Palace is known as the highest palace in the world

Potala Palace is known as the highest palace in the world and one of the most famous architectural works in the world. Standing on the Red Hill of Lhasa, the Potala Palace is a treasure house of Tibetan history, religion, culture, and art. The palace, well worth visiting for its artistic value, historic purposes, and cultural awareness, has been regarded as the No. 1 must-see attraction in Tibet.
The Potala Palace is made of two main parts, easily distinguished by their color: the Red Palace and White Palace. The two are joined by a smaller, yellow-painted structure that houses the sacred banners hung on the exterior for the New Year festivals. The rooms inside the palace are identified by numbers as well as names. Interesting in Potala Palace Tour? HRC is pleased to offer great service to build a unique China tour for you.590
The heart of the complex is the Red Palace (Potrang Marpo), painted a deep red and used primarily for religious purposes. Richly decorated with painting, jewelled work, carving and other ornament, it contains several shrines and the tombs of eight past Dalai Lamas. Before the tombs are precious votive offerings, including a pagoda made of 200,000 pearls.
Potala Palace has other annexes including the School of Buddhist Logic, the seminary, the printing House, gardens, courtyards and even the jail. For more than 300 years, It has treasured many culture relics such as murals, stupas, statues, thangkas, and rare sutras.

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Potala altitude is 3750 m above, the plain people should pay attention to prevent altitude sickness when to the Potala Palace, always well prepared is always right. There are two general methods suitable for two types of people for the prevention of altitude sickness in Tibet, one is relatively ample preparation time, you can start taking two weeks altitude medicine before Tibet, the other is coming into the possession of the short-term, without sufficient preparation time, you would have to choose fast-acting medicine, you can take it when arriving Tibet or the occurrence of altitude sickness in Tibet, two types of products can be freely combined, easy to deal with altitude sickness.

There are numerous rocks and small islands act as decorations of Ranwu Lake

Ran Wuhu, along the Sichuan-Tibet Highway to the wooden bar not far from town line, which means “with the body packing of the Lake”, the legendary head of buffalo lake, Lake head of cattle there, they struggle against each other, into the mountains after death The two-phase Hill Ran Wuhu is the folder. The lake is a typical orogeny formed by the side of the lake stop, in hi Mara Hill, nyainqentanglha Hill and Hill’s cross hit on the Department. Ran Wuhu static and is known of the blue, the lake rarely see litter all sorts of things, Lake view week varies. Ran Wuhu color is very rich in grassland, forests, autumn leaves, and white water birds and shore of Lake shoal of colorful pebbles, fresh as reflected mirror.

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Nestled in the Village of Ran around the southwest corner of Baxoi of Chamdo prefecture, 90km from the Baima Town(neighboring the Nyingchi Prefecture), Ranwu, also Ranwok, is a tiny town known for the crystal-clear and tranquil Ranwu Lake, the largest in southeast of Tibet.
The Ranwu lake, 3,800m above the sea level, has a water area of 22sqkm. The 2 main parts of turquoise water linked by a small stream. It is the main supply of Palong Tsangpo, a branch of The Yarlong Tsangpo River.Ranwu Lake,Chamdo,Tibet.
Ranwu Lake is surrounded by mountains covered with snow. These mountains supply water for Ranwu Lake. The lake has been an important source of Parlung Zangbo River – an important tributary of Yarlung Zangbo River.

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There is a large meadow on the lakeshore of Ranwu Lake. It forms an amazing natural picture with the clean water and the snow-capped mountains. The lake stretches more than 10 kilometers toward the west and shrinks into a narrow river valley. The color of the water changes with the season and presents different landscapes. There are numerous rocks and small islands act as decorations of Ranwu Lake. Tourists would feel like in a dreamlike spot and would be slaves of the beautiful landscapes.

Nyingchi has humid climate and beautiful scenery

Nyingchi Located on the lower reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo River, Nyingchi is 3,000 meters above sea level. It has humid climate and beautiful scenery, so it also named “the Switzerland of Tibet”. The inhabitants here are mainly the Moinbas and the Lhobas. Nyingchi is attractive with the Namjagbarwa, the Great Gorge of the Yarlung Zangbo River, Basumco, Zayu, and Bome.

The area enjoys exceptional advantages in human and natural resources. The Nyingchi residents are striving to build the area into an international forest park at the world’s “third pole,” where people can travel, climb mountains and cliffs, explore, drift along rivers and conduct scientific investigations. The distinctive folklore, music, songs, dances and athletic competitions of this area also add color to the beautiful scenery. There are 8 scenic zones and 35 scenic spots in the Nyingchi area. Among them the Yarlung Zangbo Great Canyon with a spectacular U-turn might be the most famous. More information about China Tour in chinatourguide.com

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With its upper reaches formed by Yangwogou, Jiaxingou and Bujiagou, Niangpugou lies 50 kilometers west of Gongbu Jiangda County and represents one branch of Nyang River.
There is one Karst cave at the end of Bujiagou and three hot springs at 4200 meters above sea level: the upper is Nun Hot Spring, the middle is Lama Hot Spring and the lower Buru Hot Spring. Lots of old trees surround these hot springs, which together with the numerous caves and brooks compose a grand symphony.
The northwest Yangwogou is well-known for its strange stones and perilous peaks. At the bottom of the mountain, Baga Temple (or Baiyanshan Temple) has existed since its construction during the period of the 5th Dalai Lama. The natural cave is decorated with numerous paintings of Buddha.
There is a Karst fountain at the bottom of Baga Temple which spews consistently six times every day all round the year.