Top Ten Tourist Attractions in Shigatse

The top ten tourist attractions in Shigatse are Tashilhunpo Temple, Mount Everest, Mount Everest Base Camp, Sakya Temple, Sakya Ancient City, Baiju Temple, Mirariba Practice Cave, Paba Temple, Pala Manor and Qiang Qin Temple.

Tashilhunpo Monastery, which means auspicious Mount Sumi in Tibetan, is the largest monastery of Gelug Sect of Tibetan Buddhism in the post-Tibetan area and one of the six famous temples of China Yellow Sect. The temple was built in the 12th year of Ming Dynasty, and was renovated and expanded by the Panchen Lama, forming a magnificent building complex.

Mount Everest, which means the Virgin Mary in Tibetan, is the highest mountain in the world, with an altitude of 8848 meters. It is located on the border between China and Nepal in the middle of the Himalayas, just south of Dingri County in Shigatse, Tibet. The peak is covered with snow all year round, which is a holy scene. Mount Qomolangma has four peaks over 8000 meters and 38 peaks over 7000 meters, which is known as the third level of the earth. At the foot of Mount Everest, there is a temple with the highest altitude in the world-Rongbu Temple. At the same time, Rongbu Temple is also the best place to watch Mount Everest, with a straight line distance of 25 kilometers.

Introduction to Shigatse game

Xigaze, alias Houzang and Nianmai, is located in the southwest of Tibet, bordering Lhasa and Shannan in the east, Ali in the west, Nepal, Bhutan and India in the south and Naqu in the north. It is a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Xizang Autonomous Region. Area 179240 square kilometers, with an average elevation of over 4000 meters. By 2020, the city's total population will be 850,000, with 204 townships and 1673 villages.

Shigatse is located between the central Himalayan mountain system and the central Gangdise Nyainqentanglha mountain system, with high terrain in the north and south, with the southern Tibet Plateau and the Yarlung Zangbo River basin in the middle. The average altitude is more than 6000 meters, which is mainly divided into three climatic zones. South of the Himalayas is a plateau temperate semi-humid monsoon climate zone, north of Jinggangshan is a plateau sub-frigid monsoon climate zone, and between the two mountains is a plateau temperate semi-arid monsoon climate zone.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Xigaze