National Day Gannan Travel Guide | 5 days and 4 nights off-the-beaten-path journey

Of course, you have to come to Gannan! 🥳 This place has been rated by National Geographic as a must-visit place in your lifetime💕 This is the beautiful Oriental Eden, far away from the hustle and bustle of the city, it is a rare hidden gem🍀 If you want to travel during the National Day with less people and beautiful scenery, then come to Gannan✨ . ✅Gannan 5 days and 4 nights itinerary 🚘Day1 Lanzhou—Hezuo (Milarepa Buddha Pavilion)—Zha Ga Na 📍Today's itinerary: 420 kilometers, about 6.5 hours by car 🔸Milarepa Buddha Pavilion, Milarepa Buddha Pavilion is a nine-story pagoda known as the Tibetan Studies Museum. ❗Tip: You need to take off your shoes to go in, and the scenery on the hill behind the temple is more beautiful. . 🚘Day2: Zha Ga Na—Fairy Beach—Xiao Du Ku—Flower Lake—Aba 📍Today's itinerary: 320 kilometers, about 5 hours by car 🔸Zha Ga Na Fairy Beach: The morning mist makes you feel like you are in heaven. Here you can see the whole view of Zha Ga Na village, the grassland here is undulating, and the bushes are dense, which is the ceiling of the scenery in Zha Ga Na scenic area. 🔸Flower Lake: The shores of Ruoergai Lake are full of colorful unknown flowers, like clouds falling from the sky. . 🚘Day3: Aba—Lian Bao Ye Ze—Niang Ma Temple—Langmu Temple 📍Today's itinerary: 300 kilometers, about 5.5 hours by car 🔸Lian Bao Ye Ze: Located in the southeastern part of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the average altitude of the highest peaks is over 4000 meters. It is a famous sacred mountain in Tibet, ranking eighth among the top ten sacred mountains in Tibet, and is the first of all sacred mountains in the Amdo region. . 🚘Day4: Langmu Temple—Geerdi Temple—Namo Gorge—Source of Bailong River—Sangke Grassland—Labrang Monastery—Xiahe 📍Today's itinerary: 200 kilometers, about 3 hours by car 🔸Geerdi Temple: It belongs to Ruoergai County, Sichuan. Namo Grand Canyon and the source of Bailong River are in Geerdi Temple. There are many little lamas studying here, which can be described as a secret place in the Buddhist country. You can hike in the canyon and find the source of the Bailong River 🔸Sangke Grassland: The grass here is lush, the cattle and sheep are fat, and there are often cattle and sheep blocking the road. I think the cattle and sheep here are the cleanest and will not get themselves muddy. 🔸Labrang Monastery: The Tibetan Buddhist temple with the most complete Tibetan studies system—Labrang Monastery, this is the purest Buddhist paradise. . 🚘Day5 Xiahe County—Darzong Lake—Lanzhou 📍Today's itinerary: 300 kilometers, about 5 hours by car 🔸You can see prairie dogs at Darzong Lake. If you have enough time, you can go to Ba Fang Thirteen Alleys for a visit ✔️Arrive at Darzong Lake at 10:00, play for about 1 hour, and start to return to Lanzhou, arriving in Lanzhou before 17:00 in the afternoon. .