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. Naqu(4500m)
Nagchu is one of the highest, coldest and most windswept towns in Tibet. Perched on the edge of the Changtang it is a dismal town of mud and concrete but is still an important pit stop on the road between Qinghai and Tibet. It¡¯s a literally breathtaking place.

Nagchu has a Horse racing Festival from 10 to 16 Auguest when the town swells with up to 10,000 nomand sand their tents from all over the Changtang.

. Changtang Grassland(Tibet Northen Plateau)
The North Tibet Grassland, referring to the vast plateau in north Tibet, is referred to as Changtang (or Qangtang) Grassland in Nagqu Prefecture. As one of the five biggest pastures in China, Changtang Grassland is surrounded by the Kunlun, Tanggula, Kangdese and Nyainqentanglha mountains.

Changtang Grassland is a culturally rich land as well as a paradise for the wild animals and plants. On the vast grassland, yaks, sheep and nomadic people¡¯s camps can be seen everywhere. And the colorful long-standing nomadic culture created by the nomadic people can be appreciated here.

Nourished by Black River, the upper reaches of Nujiang River, Changtang Grassland is a paradise for the wild animals and plants. On the vast grassland, yaks and sheep can be seen everywhere. The grass ¡°Naza¡± growing on the grassland is a kind of short grass that has the highest content of protein among all grasses. That¡¯s why the flocks and herds grazing on the grassland are fatter and stronger than in other places.

Changtang Grassland is culturally rich. The famous ancient Tang -Tupo Route ran through Changtang Grassland from south to north. The nomadic people here have created their own colorful, fascinating and long-standing nomadic culture characterized by ancient rock paintings, the Ruins of Yamtung (or Zhangzhung) Kingdom, long epic about King Gesar, Nyima Mound, prayer flags and ancient towers, etc, adding mysterious color to Changtang Grassland and making it irresistibly attractive.

Nomadic people¡¯s camps can be seen everywhere on Changtang Grassland. Besides the traditional yak camps, there are nylon camps of different shapes and sizes striped with different colors such as red, blue, yellow, green and white. On the top of many camps, multi-colored flags are waving to and fro in the breeze.

The most attractive is the festival attire worn by herders, especially girls and middle-aged women. At festivals, most of the girls and middle-aged women wear gorgeous and expensive Tibetan gowns and hang a lot of tinkling trinkets with them, which is really a beautiful scene.

. (4480m)
Around 65km west of Lhasa, Tsurphu Monastery is the seat of the Karmapa Branch of the Kagyupa order of Tibetan Buddhism. The Karmap are also known as the Black Hats, a title dating back to 1256, when the second Karmapa wa invited to China by the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, Kublai Khan, and presented with a black hat embellished with gold. Said to be made from the hair of holy women, the hat is now kept at Rumtek Monastery in Sikkim.

It was the first Karmap, Dusum Khyenpa, who instigated the tradition of Trulku and the Karmapa lineage has been maintained until this day. ( 17th Gyalwang Karmapa now in India;  Video ¡° The Lion Roar)

Tsurphu has an annual festival around the time of the Saga Dawa Festival in the fourth lunar month of the Tibetan calendar. There is plenty of free-flowing chang as well as ritual cham dancing by monks and lamas.

Tsurphu was founded in the 1180s by Dusum Khyenpa, some 40 years after he established the Karmap order in Kham, his birthplace. It was the third Karmapa monastery to the be built and after the death of the first Karmapa, it became the head monastery for the order.

The Karmapa order traditionally enjoyed strong ties with the kings and monasteries of Tsang, a legacy that proved a liability when conflict broke out between the kings of Tsang and the Gelugpa order. When the Fith Dalai Lama invited the Mongolian army of Gushri Khan to do away with his opponents in Tsang, Tsurphu was sacked and the Karmapa¡¯s political clout effectively came to and end. Shorn of its political influence, Tsurphu nevertheless bounced back as an important spiritual centre and is one of the few Kagyupa in situations still functioning in the U region.

. Yangpachen hotspring
Yangpachen, 110 kilometers (68 miles) north of Lhasa, is famous for its hot springs. It is said that a long time ago, before the sky and the earth was separated, the whole world was in total darkness. People living at the foot of Mt. Nyainqentanglha were suffering. One day, a golden phoenix flew into the area, determined to create brightness by sacrificing its¡® self. It threw one of its bright eyes onto the ground. A fairy caught the eye, and then a bright lamp arose in the air. Snow capped peaks of Mt. Nyainqentanglha appeared; grassland like huge carpet emerged; happiness came to the Tibetan people. However, a greedy man near Yangpachen coveted the lamp. He took a witch man¡®s idea to sharpen his hatred into an arrow to shoot the lamp. The lamp was broken then, the pieces of the lamp dropped onto the ground, turning into hot springs and burned the man to his death. People said that the hot springs were the fairy¡®s tears.

The town lies on a high and cold plateau. However, people approaching will see some hot springs blowing out steam rising up to sky. While the surrounding area was barren and extremely cold, Yangpachen is green with grass and highland barley growing abundantly. Steam emitting from the springs covers the small town. Now it has a thermoelectricity plant, green houses and hot spring bathrooms, attracting more and more tourists.

. Namtso Lake(4718m)
Namtso Lake the second largest saltwater lake in China(first is Qinghai Lake," Koko Nor) 250km northwest of Lhasa. It is over 70km long, reaches a width of 30km and is 35m at its deepest point. The Nyenchen Tangula Range with peaks of more than 7000m towers over the lake .

When the ice melts in late April, the lake is a miraculous shade of turquoise and there are magnificent iews of the nearby mountains. The wide opend spaced dotted with the tents of local nomands are intoxicating.

After you adapt the high altitude from Lhasa you can make a trip to Namtso for 1-2 day.
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. Tashi Dor Monastery
Most travelers head for Tashi Dor, situated on a hammerhead of land that juts into the southeastern corner of the lake. Here at the foot of two wedge shaped hills are a couple of small chapels with views back across the clear turquoise waters to the huge snowy Nyenchen Tangula Massif(7111m).

This Monastery is realy just a small chapel to the east of the accommodation area. Inside is an image of the local deity, Nyechen Tangula which has its roots in Bon belief and resides in the nearby mountain of the same name. There are several other chapels and retreats honey combed into the rock face.

There are some find walks in this area. The short Kora takes less than an hours It leads off west from the accommodation area to a chapel hidden behind a large splinter of rock. The trail continues round to a rocky promontory of cairns and prayer flags, where pilgrims undertake a ritual washing and then continues past several caves and a prostration point. The twin rock towers here look like two hand in the ¡° Namaste¡± greeting and are connected to the male and female attributes of the meditation deit Demchok Pilgrims squeeze into the deep slices of the into the deep slices of the nearby cliff face as a means of sin detection. They also drink wter driping from cave roofs and some ingest- Holy Dirt.

From here the path curves around the shoreline and passes a group of ancient rock paintings where pilgrims test their merit by attempting to place a finger in a small hole with their eyes closed. Nearby is a foot print of Guru Pinpoche. At the northeastern corner of the hill is the Mani Ringmo, a large prayer wall at whose end is a crumbling chorten with a chakje of the third Karmapa. Fromhere you can hike up to the top of the hill fro good views.

If you have enough time it¡¯s well worth walking around the larger of the two hills. There are superb views to the northeast of the Nyench Tangula range, which marks the modern border between Tibet and Amdo.