4-Day Pure Play in Gannan in Winter | A Small Secret Place for the Spring Festival
In winter Gannan, 4 days and 3 nights, take you to feel the vastness of Sangke Prairie, the style of Zhagana, the faith of Langmu Temple, the color of Ganjia Secret, start a pilgrimage journey...
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⭐️Essential Scenic Spots
✔️Ganjia Secret
The scenic area includes Baishiyao, Octagonal Ancient City, Baishiyao Cave, after the snow in winter, it's another world, pure and vast snow mountain🏔️
✔️Sangke Prairie
This is probably a fairy tale, full of vast prairies, the accumulated snow under the sun is dazzling, it's a picturesque scenery, the free-range cattle and sheep add a touch of agility to the scenery
✔️Zhagana
In the early morning of winter, the clouds are misty, snow mountains, holy lakes, blue sky, wilderness, villages, cattle and sheep, climb up to the Fairy Beach to view the snow scene, when the weather is clear, you can see the golden snow mountain top
✔️Langmu Temple
"Eastern Switzerland", "Gannan Utopia", Langmu Temple is a small town, a blend of Tibetan, Han and Hui ethnic groups, there are Buddha Sunning Festival, Treasure Festival, Butter Lamp Festival during the Spring Festival, monks gather, very lively
✔️Labrang Monastery
Known as the "World Tibetan Academy" has the world's longest prayer corridor, many people during the Spring Festival, attracting Tibetans and believers to participate
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📝Daily Itinerary🚗
1️⃣Lanzhou—Cooperation (Mila Ribafoge)—Zhagana
Depart from the hotel around 8:00
✅Visit the Buddha Pavilion, you can check in at the red wall at the door, the scenery on the hillside behind is better for taking pictures
Arrive at 【Zhagana】 around 18:00 for free activities
【Today's Journey🚌】: 420 kilometers, about 6.5h by car
【Today's Accommodation⛺】: Zhagana Scenic Area
【Recommended Food🍱】: Tibetan Hot Pot
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2️⃣Zhagana Fairy Beach—Langmu Temple (Gedan Temple-Namo Grand Canyon)
✅Zhagana Fairy Beach: The morning mist makes you feel like you are in heaven. Here you can see the whole view of Zhagana Village, the grassland here is undulating, the bushes are dense, it is the ceiling of the scenery in Zhagana Scenic Area
Coming out of Zhagana Goukou, you will enter the 248 National Road Scenic Section, cross Jiabu Gorge to Ruoergai Prairie, and finally enter Langmu Temple Town
✅Langmu Temple Town: Half in Gansu and half in Sichuan, Jiangnan is Gedan Temple belongs to Ruoergai County, Sichuan, Jiangbei is Saich Temple belongs to Luqu County, Gansu
✅Namo Grand Canyon and Bailong River Source are in Gedan Temple, Saich Temple is located on the hillside of Langmu Temple, you can see the whole view of Langmu Temple Town, suitable for taking large scenic photos. Due to time constraints, only one of the two attractions can be visited
【Today's Journey🚌】: 95 kilometers, about 2h by car
【Today's Accommodation⛺】: Langmu Temple
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3️⃣Langmu Temple-Gahai-Sangke Prairie-Labrang Monastery-Xiahe
✅【Gahai】Play time: 2h Ticket: 50 yuan Section car 20 yuan
Gahai, a natural sea on the Gannan Prairie, is a habitat for birds, the ecological environment is super excellent, although it will be desolate in autumn and winter, but it is indeed a paradise for many small and popular scenic spot enthusiasts, super out of the picture
tips: After entering the scenic area, there is a distance from the wooden plank road to the lake, the grassland on both sides of the wooden plank road, walk and take pictures, about 1h to reach the double-decker viewing platform, the view is wider, bird nesting season, you can watch birds by the lake, you can enjoy the whole Gahai Lake, from the top to shoot the wooden plank road, blue sky, lake water, mountains, grassland out of the picture is very good! In winter, the grassland covered with white snow and the green lake water, like a natural curved water flowing banquet jade platform, the overhead shot is very out of the picture
✅【Sangke Prairie】The prairie in winter is quiet and warm, cattle and sheep are free and loose, it is another scenery
✅【Labrang Monastery】Here is the purest Buddhist paradise, between the mountains, under the blue sky, the crimson monk's robe, the golden stupa, all this will make you unconsciously look up
【Today's Journey🚌】: 195 kilometers, about 3h by car
【Today's Accommodation⛺】: Xiahe
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4️⃣Xiahe— Ganjia Secret—Eight Squares Thirteen Lanes— Lanzhou (Ends around 17:00)
✅Ganjia Secret
Go straight: Octagonal Ancient City—Baishiyao—Baishiyao Cave (separate ticket 40 yuan/person), the car can drive directly into the scenic area
Arrive at Ganjia Secret before 9:00, play for about 2h
✅【Linxia Eight Squares Thirteen Lanes】And have lunch, check in food, return to Lanzhou, arrive around 17:00 in the afternoon
If you want to return, you need to buy a plane after 20:00✈️
Langmusi Town is located at the junction of Gansu and Sichuan. A Bailongjiang crosses the town. There are temples of Tibetan Buddhism Gelu on both sides. The building is majestic and magnificent. I bought tickets and there is no place to check the tickets. It seems that I don’t buy them.
Langmusi Town has two Langmu Temple, one Gansu Temple, one Sichuan Temple, and there are some differences in the religious beliefs of the two temples. In addition to the monastery building, there is a tiger gorge in Sichuan Temple and there is a celestial burial platform in Gansu Temple. Going to Sichuan Temple, you can drive into the vicinity of the monastery. You can't take pictures in the monastery building. You need to take off your shoes and go in. You can understand Tibetan Buddhism.
Long heard of the name of Langmu Temple, today can be seen with your own eyes, it is really extraordinary, the temple is shining under the sun, shining brightly; the hall is even more magnificent, gorgeous, very national style
Langmu Temple is divided into two parts, one is the Sichuan Dacang Langmu Temple monastery, also known as Geerdi Temple, Tiger Cave, Fairy Cave, Langmu Temple Grand Canyon and the flesh Buddha Sheli are located in the Sichuan Langmu Temple. The other is the Gansu monastery, also known as Saichi Temple, which leads to the Tianburial Terrace, and the two monasteries watch each other across the stream. Despite the growing popularity of Langmu Temple, it is still a quiet and unique town.
From Changzhi County to Niangma Temple, you can see the huge prayer wheel on the wilderness from a distance. It rained heavily on the road from Niangma Temple to Langmu Temple, and there were flocks of vultures on the hillside, and the cliff top cloud covered the fog. Langmu Temple is outside Shenju Gorge, and there is a six-character truth inscribed on the cliff wall, and there is an altar in the cave under the Gorge. The deep canyon is full of rocky rocks and horse manure. The stream and the road meet from time to time, and you need to cross the stream. The teacher sister is not afraid of the muddy road and continues to move forward. I gave up after splashing a mud idea with too much horse manure on my pants legs. Hate the rainy day!