The airport of Shangri-La was built at a piece of small flat bottom valley at the foot of snow-capped mountain, small and quiet. The way to Shangri-La County is very good, willows spit green along the road and pear blooming on trees. It was the sunset when we arrival, everything seems like to be gold-plated, and all are clean and leisurely on plateau.
The old town of Dukezong in Jiantang Town has long history of 1,300 years, where was the important stopover on the Tea-Horse Road, and is also the best preserved ancient city among the Chinese Tibetan houses in Tibet areas. Both sides of the flagging in old town are the antique residence with Tibetan style, include many restaurants and bars decorated in the combination of traditional Tibetan style and modern method, very characteristic, are the ideal places for visitors to kill the night time. Here is the first destination of our tour.
Dating back to 70 years ago, General He Long led the Red Army climbed over the snow-capped mountain to enter into the Tibet for the first time, rested in Dukezong. Round fireplace with light, I whim, it was luckily the uncivilized region in 70 years ago, or how can the Chinese revolution got the victory in such gentle and comfortable place?
After dinner, people unknown to each other gather at the center of this old city, circling a big circle to dance the lively Guozhuang which is a special kind of dance in China. In tires, dancing and laughing, it is truly exciting. After then hike to a hill in old city, a known as the biggest pray wheel with three-storey in height is lighten to gold under the lights of night, solemn but luxury. People join together to clockwise promote prayer wheel in prayer team, it really is spectacular!
The first national park
The newly listed Shangri-La Pudacuo National Park is the only one national park in China. It is the first time the conception of national park is rooted in China, since America set the Yellowstone National Park in 130 years ago.
The Pudacuo National Park includes the Shudu Lake, Bita Sea and Xiaji Tibetan Cultural Ecology Tourist Village. According to the rules to the features of the national park made by World Conservation Union, the park landscapes must be with original, unique, natural, rare, and not reclaimed by the human, so walk into the Pudacuo, no matter the lake or hill, all are natural. With the strict management, the sightseeing and expedition lines are fixed, either sitting environmentally friendly vehicles along the 80-km-long green road sightseeing or hiking, to ensure that does not park adverse environmental impacts.
The heavenly pure and clean Pudacuo offers tourists variety of tourist routes, besides the necessary ecological tourist project in national park – hiking, Pudacuo will push-off the mountain-climbing route to tourists a chance to try to climb the snow-capped mountain.
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