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2020 Litang Festival date is confirmed to be held from July 29^th to 31^st

In 2019, Litang Festival was named Cangyang Gyatso Poem & Song festival; in 2020, the Litang Festival is named Garze Mountain Festival; However, Tibetan horse-racing is the main program of this festival.

In this May and June there were two horse-racing qualifier contests being held in Litang in order to select the best group of horses and tibetan riders; The horse-racing in this July shall define the best horse and rider of Year 2020

Lhagang King Gesar Festival is to be held in Lhagang monastery, also known as Tagong monastery. This King Gesar dance was held in the yard of Lhagang monastery which is about 400 kilometers west from Chengdu, approximately 1 full day drive is needed.

Lhagang monastery King Gesar from Tibetan Trekking Travel on Vimeo.

Hong Po Si is also the name of Hong Po Monastery, it is hidden in the Hong Po village of Deqin county; It was a monastery belongs to Karma Kagyu Sect of Tibetan Religion, but converted to be a Gelug Pa sect of monastery after only 160 yrs after its establishment;

It is one of the monasteries that has the architecture features of both Tibetan and Chinese Buddhism tradition; it is regarded as the “Mother monastery” of the three Main Tibetan Monasteries of Deqin County. The other two monasteries are Deqinlin monastery and Dongzhulin Monastery

2020 Tongren festival date has been defined. It is from August 5^th to 14^th. During this 10 days, local people will dressup to particapte this annual grand celebrations.

For touring this festival, please visit this page for detail programs

2019 Litang Festival date has been confirmed to be held from July 29^th to August 2^nd. The theme of this 2019 Litang festival is been decided as “Meet Tsangyang Gyatso Poetry Festival”;

“Tsangyang Gyatso” is also called (RIGDZIN) Tsangyang Gyatso, who was the 6^th Dalai Lama, and also a great poet. He wrote “White cranes! Please lend me your wings, don’t fly far away, just go to Litang.” This has made Litang to be one desired land that Tibetan come to live;

2019 Litang Festival has been decisived that is with theme of “Meet Tsangyang Gyatso Poetry Festival”, in addition, there will Horse-Racing competetion, Local Matsutake Food Festival, Litang Agricultural product festival, Tibetan Folk Performance Festival; It is a big celebration with 5 different festivals;

Come and join the great Tibetan Festival…..

Mount Everest closure is recently “side-news” which had caused influence on Tibet tour; Mount Everest National Nature Reserve in Tibet has been decided to ban tourists from entering core zone which is reorganized to begin from the Everest Base Camp. However, the mountain climber, whom are issued with climbing permit, are surely not be affected.

Recently, an online report about the Everest base camp was “permanently closed due to heavy ecosystem damage.” But it was denied by the local authority, and one official explanation has been made by deputy director of the EBC National Reserve’s Administration of Mr Gelsang, whom confirms that tourists are allowed to reach Rongphuk monastery or as far as the newly settled Camp Site Area which is about 2 kilometers away from the original Everest Base Camp.

Kangding was the first town for entering Tibetan plateau from Chengdu. People may not get the feel of Tibetan when arriving this rapidly developed Tibetan city; however, when continually drive to Xinduqiao town, which is 72 kilometers west from Kangding, you will get the feel of Tibetan.

The Highway from Chengdu to Kangding is almost completed, this newly built highway shall tremendously shorten the drive hours between Chengdu and Kangding from previously 8 – 9 hours to 3 -4 hours; another newly planned highway will connect Kangding and Xinduqiao town through a tunnel of Mt Dzetuo (4230m), which could shorten the drive to 1.5 hours from currently 3 hours, more than that, one train station is now being built at Xinduqiao town.

In the not far future, there will be three options for you to choose for getting onto Xinduqiao, flight, train and highway;