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Kham Travel

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Located in the Western Sichuan and Northwest Yunnan province. It has a rugged terrain characterized by

Kham Travel
A sketch indicates the rough area of Kham of the eastern Tibet

mountain ridges and gorges running from northwest to southeast. The nonthern and western Kham consist most high altitude grasslands that are above 4000m. The southern Kham has numerous rivers, including the Mekong River, Yarlung River, and the Salween River flow through, which form lands and weather allowing Tibetan farmers to grow barley, wheat , and other vegetables and fruit trees. The eastern Kham is between 2500m – 3500m, are covered in thick evergreen forests. Snow-capped, glaciated peaks can be viewed almost everywhere. The higest mountain is Mt. Minya gangkar (7556m), which is also a wonderful site for making treks. from 5 days trekking to 111days trekking, this enormous region holds a large range of different treks, as well as Kawa Karpo;

Kham was also the home of many early Repoches, lamas, including the founders of the Drigungpa and Karmapa. Derge, a historic site that also provide numberous off-the-beaten path to visit, such as Palpung monastery, Dzongsar monastery…etc;

The bright part is – for the most of Kham are open, you may choose to travel with a tour operator, either way on your own, if you think you are able to get over the difficults of arranging traffic and laguage barrier. and It is true that Kham is one of the best places to observe traditional Tibetan culture, which we do agree! The best preserved Tibetan culture, very few travelers, almost no tourist, colorful nomad culture, different tradition of monastery. This is a wonderful place to visit;

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Visit Tibet only?

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As you may be aware that the tours to Visit Tibet have received many errors on obtaining tibet-travel-permit. There is no telling that if this situation may last or not in the rest of this year. Does that mean you have to cancel your trip to Visit Tibet at all? Not necessarily! it is important to know that Tibetan cultural Area consists 3 major parts, of course the central tibet TAR is the main part, however, the other almost more than 50% large of the whole TCA areas are in current Qinghai province (Amdo), the West of Sichuan Province (Kham). Although Amdo and Kham are not in central Tibet, but not think it is any “less-Tbet”. those are still preserve some orginal tradition of Tibetan culture, such as “Jue-nang” of Gelukpa, “Black hat” of Orignal tibetan religion that sourced from Guge – the lost kingdom of west Tibet.

in the continuse days, Tibetan Trekking will publish more about the eastern tibet of Kham and Amdo to assist you choose other travel destinations, you are welcome to pay attention to our blog

Litang Festival location

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Litang Festival location
Tibetan femal dancing group
Previously the Horse-racing festival of Litang were held in the huge grassland some 5 or 7 km south of downtown of Litang. This year of 2012, the festival shall be organized by local villagers and the field of this festival will be happened on the grassland a little above Litang monastery on the north slope of the mountains. It is about 20 – 30 minutes walk to town of Litang.

The image on the right is a group of Tibetan women dancing at previous Litang Horse-Racing Festival

Kham Journey

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“Kham” was the traditional name of the eastern part of Tibetan Cultural Area, it is now called: Kanze or Ganze Tibetan Prefecture of Sichuan Province. If you do not have time to travel deeply into Kham, do not worry, because there are a great many really super places to visit inside Kangding County and its surrounding.
Its coutryside is still with very traditional and very Tibetan. There are high mountains, grasslands inhabited by nomads, fanciful castle-like houses, and rich farms. There are plenty of monasteries in Kangding, too, and colorful festivals. Kangding’s biggest annual festival is on the 8th day of the 4th month of Chinese calendar, and features activities on Pao-Ma-Shan(Horse-runing mounatian), plus several days of street fair that fills up the whole town. Other than this ethic festival, a religious celebration and ritual are annually held in Lhagang (Tagong in chinese) and Bamei in Speing and Autumn.

Beyond the cltural facts, the Hailougou–a glacier park at the foot of Mt. Gongga (Mt. Gangkar) is also very popular with Chinese tourists. It is also one of the ends of making the wonderful trek of Mt. Gongga (Mt. Minya Gangkar)

2012 Litang horse racing festival

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2012 Litang horse racing festival
A Khampa rider is at Litang horse-racing festival contest

2012 Litang Horse-Racing-Festival will be held on July 21. The festival of 2012 is not same as previously ones that to have one week to proceed different programs; There will be only one day to celebrate in 2012.


It is recommended to arrive in Litang 1 or 2 days earlier in order to acclimatizing to its altitude – 4150m above sea level; on the other hand, it could avoide the possible changing of the festival date due to rain problem – as August is monsoon, it sometime rains heavy;

Wangdue Dzong tragedy

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Wangdue Dzong tragedy — News by Mr. Ugyen Tenzin

On June 24thWangdue Dzong tragedy, Sunday, a tragedy happened to Wangdue Dzong, of which was burned down to ashes, it is quite possible that the Wangdue festival will no longer be performed, and we hope this won’t come to be true. Both Bhutan kings (fourth and fifth) rushed from the capital Thimphu to the site to reach out their help but to no avail. As a result it is declared holiday here today to mourn the mishappening.

As of now there is no concrete proof on festival adjournment and the general believe is that the government might make alternative arrangement inorder not to impact the tourism business. As Wangdue and Thimphu festival marks the maximum international visitation in Autumn by virtue of the finest weather condition and festive time. However, best efforts will be rendered to updating on Wangdue festival to those guests traveling during to Bhutan with us. So stay tuned for our latest news.

Tibet travel…… smooth?

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After having nearly 22days “semi-close” of tibet tourism, tibet-travel-permits has now been permitted to be issued again; still with few further conditions to compare with previously requirements, of which are minim number of visitor in one tour is 5, not 4; and all participants are from same country. It is hard to say when and if there might be another “shut”, but we all hope this shall be the last of 2012. Happy journey to Tibet

amending tibet permit applications

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Previously, there was not any limit on the group size for making a Tibet tour. It has been changed since this April that a request of having 4 people with same nationality has been applied; Unfortunately , this is not the end; recently a new limit on the size of a tour group for travelling through the central Tibet has claimed that a minimum of 5 people with same nationality is now activated;