For China tour, someone came for the historical royal buildings – Beijing Forbidden City, someone came for widening vision through the world wonders – Beijing Great Wall groups, as well as there are numerous tourists came to China for discovering the essence of folk culture of Tibet. Today let us unveil the mask and explore the mysterious Tibet.

Layout of Tibet Tashihunpo Monastery

As one of the most famous Six Big Monasteries of Gelugpa in Tibet, Tashihunpo Monastery gets another name as the Heap of Glory. Founded by the first Dalai Lama, this monastery stored magnificent building structure and the luxurious decoration. With the large scale area nearly 300,000 square meters, this monastery has got much recognition in the tourists with dazzling scenic spots and the designed figures. Tashihunpo Monastery is the seat of the Panchen Lama since the Fourth Panchen Lama took charge in the monastery and in the modern days there are about 800 lams here.

Dazzling Attractions in Tibet Tashishunpo Monastery

Deep discovering will bring you some mysteries. First entering the Tashihunpo Monastery, you will be impressed by the grand buildings with golden roofs and white walls. The remarkable wall, you appreciated is built by the first Dalai Lama. From this wall, you could appreciate the images of Buddha in every century. The images here are presenting so humongous that you could easily see it in the Shigatse City. Most interesting is that you could find the biggest statue of a sitting Maitreya Buddha inside the chapel. Measuring 26.2 meters high, this figure was decorated with gold, copper, pearl and other precious stones.

Sparkling Wall Paintings in Tashihunpo Monastery
Apart from the grand palaces and gigantic statues, the Tashihunpo Monastery also boasted for the treasures wall paintings. Because of the variety of shapes, resplendent colors and exquisite paintings, the murals are regarded as another masterpiece of Buddhist art. Here, you could appreciate the rare sutras, thangka, china and glass services of Ming and Qing Dynasties. Through these relics, you would have a better understanding about the history and the society of Tibet!

As the most famous fairy monastery – Tashihunpo Monastery, recent years, has attracted loads of vision with unique folk local culture and the well-designed figures. Here is the ideal choice of your Tibet tour!

With life pace improving faster and faster, everyone wants to discover the Tibet to have an appreciation about the local religion and life culture. It is truly a nice place full of charming landscapes and unique folk culture, as well as sincere people. As the most fairy city of Tibet, Nanshan City has become a hottest holy land in the tourists from home and abroad. Today I would lead you to walk closer to it and read it.

Layout of Shannan of Tibet

Located in the southern Tibet, Shannan was highly recommended by the tourists from the home and abroad. With the coverage area about 79.700 square kilometers, this holy land has greeted with many famous leaders. Special position decided its special climate. Enjoying a semi-dry continental plateau climate, this religion area housed four vague seasons. Each season, it will present the most dazzling scenery to offer the local people. When the rainy season falls, lovely rain will always fall in the night sweating the harvest and their animals. On the second day, after the rainy, the whole scenery will be like a girl who has had a shower, charming and bright.

Features of Shannan Region
It was praised as a miracle land housing loads of unique culture and warm-hearted people. Located in the catchment area of the Yapan River, this land was originally named at Yapan. About thousands of years ago, the first ancestors of the Tibetan people moved there. There is a legend passing through here telling that a monkey was changed into a person from here. It gathered all the first of Tibet including the first temple, first village, first king, as well as the first monastery of the high land. With southern area is higher than the north area, there distributing lofty mountains and rivers in Shannan.

Dazzling Highlights in Shannan Region

As we all know, Shannan is the first region started in Tibet area. It also played a very important role as a cradle of the Tibet nation and culture. All the first buildings are started to build here. Apart from these, Shannan is a birth place where the Tibet Opera produced. The local festivals, garments, decorations and ornaments are all greatly affected by this essence opera. There are many similarities between the Tibet Opera and old Beijing Opera.

This region covering too much refresh features and miracles, it is waiting for your attention.

Weather in Beijing, as in most of China, has a continental monsoon climate with dry winters and hot summers. During the winter (November to February), the weather commonly brings dry and cold climate with occasional snowfall, temperature between 2°C and -5°C. During summer (May to September) with temperatures ranging from 25°C-30°C, the weather is mostly hot and humid. Autumn (from mid-September to the end of October) is the best time for visit Beijing. Visitors will enjoy mild temperature and plenty of sunshine.

Summer (from early June to mid-September)
China Great Wall in Summer

Summer in Beijing is very hot especially in June and July with temperature between July and August ranges between 30°C and 40°C. If travelling during this time it is best to travel before early June or late August to avoid the heat and rainy weather.

Autumn (from mid-September to the end of October)
Autumn in Beijing enjoys mild temperature and plenty of sunshine. The weather is gorgeous and the scenery of the trees changing colour engaging. There are also fewer tourists. All through this short season of the year the average highs stands at 25°C while the lows at around 8°C.

Winter (from early November to the next March)
Majestic Forbidden City Covered By Snow

Beijing has a cold, long and dry winter. The average temperature in December, January and February below is 0°C. Make sure you will bring comfortable winter clothes with layers. Winter is not a bad time for visit Beijing. Travelers could enjoy all favorite winter activities, such as, skiing, snowboarding, ice skating, attend the ice lantern festival at Longqing Gorge, spa bathing, etc. It also can be your great choice because mostly tourist destinations will offer more peaceful atmosphere, less crowded.

Spring (early April till end of May)
Gradually the temperature in the city rises as the spring appears in Beijing. During March the average highs stand at 11.6°C but in April it climbs dramatically and stands at 20°C.