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Home » Kham Attraction Guide

Kham Attraction Guide

Temples and Monasteries, sacred mountains, holy lakes in Kham

Kham Attraction Guide is a section to list monasteries and view spots, which was consists of the western Sichuan Province, and Northwest of Yunnan province (currently, Diqing Tibetan Prefecture).

Kham, nowadays, refers only the west Sichuan pronvince which also called Garze (Kanze) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture and Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture .

Altitude from 2500 meters up to 7860 meters; Mountains, valleys, rivers, jungles all together make Kham distinct from the central Tibet and Amdo; even the life custom is slightly different from other regions in Tibet and Amdo;

There are orginal Tibetan Bon religion monastery, architectures that mixed with chinese and tibetan style, some of local tibetan tribes are still maintained their original life habit

However, benefited by the rapidly developed tourism, the roads to and in this plateau have been well built, high standard hotels are being built. More and more people get onto this part of Tibetan plateau to enjoy its nature view, understand local life, study the once hidden buddhism monasteries;

In addition, this vast plateau is also wonderful land for outdoor activities, especially for trekking, hikking, camping, mountain climbing; cliff climbing and rafting may possibly become the next booming;

Monasteries, Lakes, Mountains in Kham

By alphabetically


Baishuitai (Bai-Shui-Tai)

Danba watchtower
Derge Parkhang
Dongzhulin Monastery
Dukezong Township
Dzogchen monastery
Dzongsar monastery

Garze Monastery
Gongga monastery

Hailuo Gou Glacier
Huang Long
Hong Po Monastery

Ju Li Monastery

Katok monastery
Kirti Monastery

Larima village
Larung Gar monastery
Litang Chode
Lhagang monastery
Luding Iron Bridge

Mt. Siguniang
Mt. Gongga
Mingyong Glacier

Palpung monastery
Pelyul monastery
Potatso National Park

Shechen monastery
Sumtseling Monastery

Xinlu Lake

Yarchen Gar monastery
Yading Nature Reserve

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