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The route along Amnye Machen has become increasingly popular for foreign trekkers who take 5 to 8 days to trek around the mountain. Nyenpo Yurtse and other similar treks through amazing landscapes. Cheers. 3. Apparently, it all belongs to them, and so they let it deteriorate into a muddy trash-pit with an xxRMB entry price. The sole plateau habitats world’s instinct wild animals like black-necked Crane, while Pandas, Wild Ass, Antelopes and wild yaks etc. We can put you in touch with the best tour operators in Tibet, Bhutan, Ladakh and Nepal. Qinghai is also the source of Yellow, Mekon and Yangtse rivers which are flowing from Kunlun mountain and Kekexili mountains. It is best to spend a night or two in Xining, elevation 2300 meters, before going to higher elevation areas of the province. No, you can camp inside the Nyenbo Yurtse park, but just not directly on the lake shores, only beside the parking lot, and pay 30 RMB for that. As I see on the map, there is a road from Yushu to Qumarleb, but how about the section from Qumarleb to Budongquan at the Tibetan railway? The capital town will have daily buses or mini-vans to all of the other counties within the prefecture. In Huashixia an officier told me there were no guesthouses able to take foreigners there and that there definitely was in Dari. This original Tibetan area sits from 3000 meters up to 6500 meters is a home to Tibetan nomad herders in the mountains and farmers on the lower land. Lawrence, Pingback: Tibet Train — The Biggest Mistake People Make, Pingback: Why not Amdo and Kham?? **Xining City is not in a Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. Tibetan nomads can be found throughout Golog and Hainan/Tsolho prefectures as well as in parts of Huangnan/Malho and Haibei/Tsochang prefectures. That park was the best option for me. Qinghai is a province located in the western geographical map of China. Qinghai, owing to its location in the heart of China, close to Mongolia and near the Silk Road, is ethnically mixed - Han, Hui, Kazakh, Mongolian, Tibetans, Tu and Salar inhabit the province. The Qinghai part of Amdo covers a huge area roughly twice the size of Colorado or 1.5 times the size of Germany. Amnye Machen ཨ་མྱིས་རྨ་ཆེན་. Any other area in Qinghai is fine to me if you have any suggestions. I was also lied to by a couple of police officers and my Tibetan driver. Each prefecture has a capital town, which is normally the largest town in the prefecture. At least that was my experience. Thankfully the Ximucuo is very central, right at the junction where the drivers gather and the hotel is actually pretty clean and has hot showers, wifi, cable. The coldest regions are Golog prefecture (especially Madoi county) and areas above 3500 meters north and south of Qinghai Lake as well as the nomad grasslands around Tsekog county in Huangnan/Malho prefecture. The main question: Is Kekexili nature reserve open for travelers, especially foreigners? Thus travel to Amdo is the best substitute to travel to Tibet. If you plan to go north from Golmud to either Xinjiang or Gansu provinces, the police often require foreigners to purchase an Alien Travel Permit for around 50 RMB per person. In areas above 3500 meters, lows often reach -25C and lows of -30C or colder are not uncommon. Of course, my driver was texting, driving on the wrong side of the road and with no headlights on- in snow/hail. Usually, Xining is a city that there are no more unique things like the cities in mainland China. This permit can be purchased at the Public Security Bureau in the prefecture capital of Dawu in Machen county for around 50 RMB per person. The Tibetan cleaning ladies are insanely loud though. Greedy, rude, violent and ignorant are a few words to describe them. You can check our festival dates to explore Amdo more exciting way. But, just few places are still worth to see. I really enjoy reading your website and the information that I can get, which I haven’t see anywhere else. There are daily buses from Xining to every county within Qinghai province. Amnye Machen ཨ་མྱིས་རྨ་ཆེན་ rises to 6280 meters and is found in Golog prefecture. Now I plan to make a bycivle tour next year and was thinking that a tour around Xining could be nice. You can ask the unfriendly people at the Public Security Bureau in Golmud for more details. There are famous sights evaluated to be the best rank to see the largest salted water source, Qinghai lake (མཚོ་སྔོན་པོ), the best adventure trekking spot and the holiest mountain Amnye Machen, great monasteries such as Kumbum, Labrang, Taktsang Lhamo and Larung Gar (Sertha monastery) etc. For an Amdo Tibetan travel agency based in Xining we used to recommend our clients to visit Tibetan Medical Museum, which is the home to the largest Thangka painting in the world with 618 meter long, Rigsum Lhakhang and Huangjue temple are also worth to pay a visit. The Qinghai part of Amdo is a great place to go for those interested in traditional nomadic Tibetan culture. The remaining 40% live in Gansu and Sichuan. I will be in dunhuang this november and would like to know if it is possible to go south to Qinghai lake via chaka ? Xining is the main city to get in and out form mainland China and also the main gate to Tibet autonomous region. These regions consist mostly of high altitude grasslands lying between 3300 and 4000 meters above sea level. I even managed a quick dip in the water whilst nobody was around. It is the largest portion of Amdo Tibetan region on the Tibetan plateau. Any other suggestion for trekking that don’t requires spending many days camping outside and are not too high in altitude (above 4500mt)? Ok, here are most exact idea if you want to travel there soon. What to see in the city? Nomad woman from Tsolho prefecture herding yaks in the snow, Amdo nomads from Hainan / Tsolho prefecture, Snow-capped peaks in western Golog prefecture. It is the largest portion of Amdo Tibetan region on the Tibetan plateau. I would have seen 5 separate groups. The largest lake on the Tibetan Plateau, and in all of China, is Qinghai Lake. Hi…Kekexili is not located in Amdo, but in Kham. Delingha county in Haixi prefecture (northwest Qinghai) is completely closed to foreigners. Arrive at Dari @ 5pm and my driver says there are no guesthouses and has called the police and the police are telling (demanding) me to head to Banma. We are still not sure where to go- but probably will choose between Kekexili and Amnye Machen- all starting from Yushu. If yes, does it require a permit to enter? It is again very near to the lake (about 200-300m behind a small hill), just you can’t see the lake from the tent and enjoy it from there. Just in regards to the Alien Travel Permit, I was not asked for this at all in Goulou/Golog and had many encounters with the police- too many for my liking. This question lays with the richest culture among the Tibetan nomads on the vast grass land of Amdo region, which is also considered to be the largest and prettiest grassland in the world. Well. Amnye Machen, Mt. //

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