Kham Destinations Guide

More than 850,000 local Tibetans lived in this enormous land, called Khampas. “Khampa” without “s” also means the region in between Kangding and Batang in southwestern Kham, the male of Khampa is often referred to as “Khampas.” This name is regarded as to be “Warrior”, and has made a fearful impression to outsiders.

In China, most of rivers flowing from west to East. However, in Kham, the powerful rivers of Yarlung, Mekong, and Salween, flow from North to South, cutting through mountains and forming deep valleys, in addition, all rivers parallel to one another.

Kham is also the only area of China that mountain ranges travels North to South, which is called “Heng-Duan Mountain Range.” It is called in that way, because it cuts off “connection” between eastern and western parts of China.

In those deep valleys in Kham, there are many fertile lands at bottom of gigantic cracks of earth that grow barley as well as other farm products, which produce a massive harvest annually that makes “Kham” the Granary of Tibet