Travel Guide Chamdo 昌都

(3 200 m and 335 km). The capital of Kham is now a large Chinese city where illegal travellers may be arrested. We recognize the fierce khampas with red wool that they blend with their mats found on their head.Several hostels. Very…The monastery of Chagpaling was founded in 1473 by a disciple of Tsonkhapa. Of the five temples that he used to possess, there is only the hall of assembly.The Col de Bamda 邦达 (4 600 m) gives access to a high-lying, wind-washed plains interspersed with deep gorges following the upper Mekong. The village of Bamda (165 km) appears below.The road to Basu (八宿), very bad on 70 km, is named the track at 72 turns. It passes through very caught gorges (attention to landslides). The beautiful mountain view of Rawu reminds Switzerland, but the road that remains bad puts this rapprochement.At Bomi 波密 (2 800 m and 220 km), you discover a market and a hostel where you can stop. The road continues to descend to Tangmai (1 700 m) where a subtropical vegetation consists of ferns and wetlands. The road becomes dangerous and muddy. On the road to Nyingchi, you can see the Namche Barwa (7 756 m) inviolate. The road goes back and passes a 4 600 m pass to go back to the Lacets valley (220 km). One can sometimes find a local bus for Lhasa through the Kongpo, and if you stop, you simply invoke the fact that you have lost. Those who have time and energy can, in the vicinity of Nyingchi, take the mountain tour and visit the monastery of Putchu (see Jokhang), one of four temples erected to tame the démone.