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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 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;

Litang Chode, also known as Litang Chode Ganden Tubchen Chokhorling, was built in 1580. It is the oldest and largest Gelug Pa Tibetan Buddhist monastery in the East Tibet of Kham. Nowadays, the Garze Tibetan Prefecture. It is the holy place of Gelug Pa Sect of Tibetan Buddhism, and also the key cultural relics in Sichuan Province.

In the evening of November 16^th, 2013, the main hall of Litang Chode was unfortunately destroyed due to fire disaster. In May of 2014, the rebuilding of the main hall began. After 4 years hard work, the reconstruction of the main hall has been going well, which the structural work has been completed, as well as the in-house renovations; the only left work is the three Buddha statues in the main hall, which is expected to be completed in 2019.

2019 Katok Festival Date is confirmed to be held in the three days from 2019 August 8^th to August 10^th; August 10^nd should be the day for the traditional day of unfolding Thangka ;

Attending this festival by joining this tour…