Xiahe Travel Guide

 nepalgoods Says:  A few minutes by bicycle and by foot from Xiahe away and you'll find yourselve in the middle of the graslands. On first glance you only see green gras until the horizon, but you look closer you see all this beautiful flowers in red, yellow and blue. And between them there... 

 nepalgoods Says:  This temple is one of the most important Tibetan temples. Inside its halls you find a lot of wonderful statues of Lord Buddha. The walls and columns are very colorful.The monastery complex dominates the northern village. The white walls and golden roofs feature a blend of... 

 wwliu Says:  The Labrang Lamasery is located in Xiahe County of the Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu Province. First built in 1709 by Living Buddha Awangzongzhe, Jiamuyang 1,it is one of the Largest Lamaseries of Tibetan Buddhism in China and national monuments selected for... 

 RB_Oakes Says:  Well, this is probably the reason you came to Xiahe in the first place. The experience is somewhat odd, though, as you have a mix of monks, pilgrims and tourists. The latter can be really annoying, getting in the way of the pilgrims so they can have pictures taken of them... 

 Ingalotta Says:  Around the monastry of Labrang ist this 3 km pilgrim walk. You can walk with dozens of Tibetans along it and turn hundreds of colourfull praying wheels.The setting is great, but much better than that was getting in touch with the local people. I'll never forget these three... 

 tompt Says:  The kora is the 3 kilometer (2miles) long pilgrim route around the monastery. In the outside walls of the monastery complex you will find several hundred brightly colored prayerwheels. Turn all the wheels while walking clockwise around the monastery. 

 tompt Says:  The only thing we were allowed to take pictures of inside the monastery were the yakbutter sculptures.Butter sculpture is an ancient Tibetan Buddhist art. The sculptures are traditionally made with yak butter. They are traditionally made every Losar, the Tibetan New Year,... 

 l_joo Says:  Picture is my Tibetan breakfast, two items cost around 15 yuan which is quite expensive for a breakfast in China, but its okay, I just want to try how the Tibetans' foods. From my observation, the Tibetans seemed lack of competitive skills to run a restaurant comparing with... 

 sachara Says:  You can reach Xiahe by bus from Lanzhou and there must be a daily bus to Hezuo.Further there not many possibilities for local transport.In the Tibetan village we saw that the local people travelled by truck, in the back in the open air between the goods. 

 swesn Says:  Gansu Province, where Xiahe is located, is the troublesome province that has a rule that all foreigners must purchase bus 'insurance' to travel on buses within the province.This came about because years ago, a tourist died in a road accident in Gansu and his family sued the... 

 swesn Says:  It is worth it to take a Grassland tour to drive around the Sangke and Ganjia grasslands as the scenery of rolling hills and distant snowy mountains are excellent and there are some nomad-style Tibetan tents and villages on the grasslands where you might be able to stop and... 

 tompt Says:  Around Xiahe you see many streetmarkets. There are some stalls in the side streets of the mainstreet before you reach the monastery grounds. But also at the other end of the monastery. They sell amongst other things: vegetables, fruit and bread. 

 tompt Says:  Xiahe is the largest town in a far distance and the noamds from the smaller places around come here to trade. They offer yakskins, yakbutter or cheese. They buy all kind of things on the streetmarkets or in the little shops in the mainstreet.