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Serta Traffic control
Serta is also Seda, the road from the “T” intersection of Se’erba village to Se-Ke Town, which is the capital town of Serta county, is really bad, ever since 2014 local authority has been working on to rebuild this road, it is expected to be fixed in 2015; the following below is detail traffic control in order to fix this road;
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Traffic Control sections
Se-Se Road (XV18 Se-ke Township to Se’erba township) 81km total
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Traffic Control period
April 18th to December 30th, 2015;
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Traffic Control time
from 8:00 am to 20:00 pm daily
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Traffic Control Vehicle type
all types of motor vehicles
Chongqing to Kangding flight
There are 3 flights a week between Chongqing and Kangding on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday; the flight departures at 06:55 with arrival of Daocheng at 08:05am, it takes about 1h10m for the whole air-journey
Chongqing to Yading flight
There are 4 flights a week between Chongqing and Daocheng on Monday, Wensday, Friday and Sunday; the flight departures at 06:50 with arrival of Daocheng at 08:00am, it takes about 1h10m for the whole air-journey
Yading airport:
Flights in and out Kham
In 2009, Kangding airport opened. 4 years after, another airport in Daocheng opens. There are now 2 airports located in the south and east of Kham, and have flights to the cities of Chengdu, Chongqing, Xian, Luzhou, Hangzhou, Lhasa, Kunming. It not only save a huge amount of time for those, whom want to visit the east Tibet of Kham; but also keep the access to the “isolated” Kham a whole lot easier than ever,
Welcome to visit Kham with flights
Tashilhunpo Monastery
Tashilhunpo Monastery is located in Shigatse, the 2nd largest city of Tibet. Its full name in Tibetan means “all fortune and happiness gathered here” or “heap of glory”. It was built in 1447 AD by the 1st Dalai Lama, and was once inhabited by over 4,000 monks.
Brief
The monastery is the traditional seat of successive Panchen Lamas, who is repected as the 2ndsecond highest ranking Tulku lineage in the Gelug Pa of Tibetan Buddhism.
Tashilhunpo Monastery was seized by the invasion army of Gorkha Kingdom in 1791 AD, soon they were driven back to Kathmandu by a joint army-force of Tibetan and Chinese, and Gorkha Kingdom bow to accept that to keep peace in the future, paying tribute every five years, and return what they had plundered from Tashilhunpo monastery.
Today, 600 monks still live and study there. The Grand Hall contains the tomb, which was built with more than 85 kilograms gold and many jewels, of the 4th Panchen Lama. There is also a 27 meter high statue of the Maitreya Buddha there.
4 Great & 6 Great Monasteries
It is called One of the 4 Great Gelug Pa Monastery togehter with Ganden monastery, Sera Monastery and Drepung Monastery; all of the above 4 monasteries together with Labrang monastery currently in Gansu province and Kumbum Monastery currently in Qinghai province are called “The 6 Great Gelug Pa Monastery”
Tashilhunpo Monastery Data
Address & Contact
Add : No. 1, Ji-Jie-Lang-ka Road
Contact : +86 892 882-5220/882-2933
Opening hour
09:00 am – 17:00 pm
The halls are not open from 12:00 pm-14:00 pm
Altitude
3,890 meters
Entrance fee
RMB 100 per person
How to get to there
Tashilhunpo Monastery is located in the west of Shigatse City, it can be reached by foot or by taxi, and it could be fun to take local Rickshaw to get there, which could cost RMB 30 to get to monastery
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Kangding to Lhasa flight from this June
From June 20th 2015, A Flight between Kangding and Lhasa will be opened; This flight departure from Chengdu at 09:45am, stop by Kangding, then departure again at 11:20am to Lhasa; its return flight leaves Lhasa from 14:00pm, stop by Kangding, and departure again to Chengdu at 16:30pm;
Zutrulpuk Monastery
Zutrulpuk monastery (4,800 meters) is located on the right bank (west) of the Zhong Chu River. It was built around sacred formations that were estimated to have been formed by Milarepa.
Brief
This ascetic had a duel with the sorcerer Naro Bon Chun at this place. In his final fall, Naro Bon Chun caused a large vertical cleft on Mount Kailas’ southern face.
Around the monastery is a large collection of Mani stones and pile of stones and socks carved with Mantra. Zutrulpuk encloses Milarepa’s cave which is capped by a large slab of rock.The top of the slab is said to hold prints of his feet and hands where he pressed down on the roack to make it on the right position.
This is the last spot for spending a night before the end of Kailash Cora, and from this site on, an easier trek brings you back to Darchen.
Zutrulpuk Monastery Data
Address
on the right bank (west) of the Zhong Chu River, 4-5 hours hike from Tarpoche
Opening hour
Full day
Altitude
4,800 meters
Entrance fee
Free of charge
How to get to there
There is no road to Zutrulpuk Monastery, but trail for walk, so this is only option for getting to this site, which can be approached from two directions
The clockwise way
This is the major direction and used by most of the visitors, starting from Tarpoche of Darchen village, it takes about 2 days and one high pass – Drolma La (5,700 meters), approximately 12 – 14 hours walk is needed to reaching this site
The shortcut
This is the way that local people use very often for transporting supply to this monastery, it usually takes about 4 -5 hours walk to the valley junction where you can hitchhike local vehicle or tractor to Darchen or by foot, this is another 1-2 hours walk
