Nanjia’bawa Peak 

In Motuo. The south of the crooked passage of Brahmaputra River are the dividing mountain of Nyingchi, Motuo and Milin (米林). The ancient Tibetans regarded the Nanjia’bawa Peak as the “road to heaven”, “gods’ living place” and called as “Father of Mountains”. The peak is the point between the Himalayas and Nianqingtanggula Mountains and the highest peak (7,756m) of eastern end of the Himalayas. There are full of legends about the peak. It is said that the gods descended and gathered because its height, people who were living in the valley paid their high respect and reverence to it. At its foot, many hot springs with dense vegetation, an ideal place for exploration and recuperation. 

Midui (米堆) Glacier 

100km east to Bomi County, Nyingchi Area. The main peak of Midui Glacier is 6,800m high of which the icy section is 4,600m. The glacier is lowest altitude on our planet. It consists of two large icy falls with height about 800m and width 1,000m each and a virgin forest field in between. Flowers like precious jewelry around the glacier! 

Midui Village is at the bottom of the glacier between Ranwu Town (然乌) and Bomi. To reach the village, it is closer to start at Ranwu Town than at Bomi County, coach starts in Qamdo and Nyingchi as far as Ranwu Town. It takes about 2 hours to reach the glacier from Midui, you return at night and lodge in Youth Hostel. You can also hire people to take you to the glacier but pay about 20 RMB if you want they help to carry your baggage. 

Benri’shenshan Mountain (苯日神山) 

Located in northern bank of Brahmaputra River, Nyingchi, it is said that Benri’shenshan Mountain was the venue for the duel between Master Lianhua’sheng (莲花生大师) and A’qiongjiebo (阿穷杰博) the leader of the Bon Religion. The masters of Bon had been cultivated and attained the highest state of spiritual enlightenment. Unlike Tibetan Buddhism, the worshipers of Bon have to walk around Benri’shenshan Mountain and spinning the scripture cylinders anticlockwise. 

Paga Monastery (帕嘎寺) and Paga God Mountain (帕嘎神山) 

Niangpu Village (娘蒲乡) in Gongbujiangda (工布江达) County. The monastery was belonged to the Huang (Yellow) Sect of Tibetan Buddhism and established during the reign of Dalai Lama V, with about 1,000 small Buddha statues inside. 

The mountain behind the monastery is well known and it looks like the Goddess of Duoji’pamu (多吉帕姆女神). Her navel is a divine hole regarded by the locals with two holy Manis (玛尼) at the entry. The cave is so deep and goes up inside and like a chimney. The mouth of the chimney is regarded as the mouth of the goddess and below the navel there has a cave and interval fountain. The cave was nicknamed as female genital. The interval fountain is for all seasons with water running out once in four hours with extreme accuracy. It was also called as “Paga Goddess’ Fountain” and when water was running, there would be an eagle flied out from the cave and returned when the water had been stopped. 

There is also a waterfall called Jiaxing’gou (加兴沟) about 20km from the Paga Monastery. The curtain as if waterfall has height 25m and divided into three, each of them comes out from the cave at top. There is full of bine vegetation around the cave’s mouth. You can experience the grand scenery there when the sunset comes. 

Bujiu’Lama Monastery (布久喇嘛林寺) (Ticket: 30 RMB) 

The monastery belongs to Red Sect of the Tibetan Buddhism and it is the most important religious venue in Nyingchi area. It shaped square inside and the eave at the 1^st floor has 20 corners, with 8 corners for the eaves of 2^nd and 3^rd floors. The height of the temple is about 20m and 10m width. The pagoda at the top is gilt with gold. The colors walls on the four sides are white, blue, red and green respectively. It is also the site of practice of Lianhua’sheng Master. The murals inside are known as the great feat in eastern Tibet. 

Giant Cypress Forest (Ticket: 10 RMB) 

That is the forest just on the sides of the highway. Tibetans are seeing trees as divine. The largest tree here has a circumference that of eight people to surround it hand in hand with height about 50m. There are Hada bands on it, which are the dedication to the gods by the locals. 

You may be confronted by a little boy who sells white papers with Chinese characters “巨柏林” means “Giant Cypress Forest”. Ask him that you want to buy less because he always wants you buy many! 

Accommodation 

Nyingchi Guesthouse, 25 Chuanzang Road, Bayi Village. Standard room 388 RMB, deluxe room 488 RMB nightly. Tel.: 5821300. 

The Guesthouse, Shuangyong Road, Bayi Village. With four sorts of standard rooms: 188, 288, 388 and 488 RMB respectively. Tel.: 5824163.