Day 1: Xining - Shachung (Xiaqiong) Monastery - Rebkong (Chi: Tongren)
Drive from Xining to Shachung Monastery, which is located on a mountaintop and has a great view of Yellow River in the opening valley. Afterwards, drive to Repkong via some muslim villages. Repkong is home to three large Tibetan Buddhist monasteries and is famous across Tibet for its artists. Along the way, catch beautiful views of the Yellow River.
Day 2: Rebkong
Visit Rongwu Gonchen Monastery, which is located to the wes of Rongwu Guchu River. The Repkong region is famed for its Tibetan traditional arts. You will have chance to go to artists’ village and a few monasteries that host Tibetan artists’ works.
Day 3: Rebkong - Gangya Grassland - Labrang (Xiahe)
Drive along the famous Gangya grassland to reach Sangchu town. The famous Labrang monastery is located at the western end of the town.
Day 4: Labrang
Visit Labrang monastery and walk around the Tibetan style town. Labrang monastery is among the six leading Gelupa monasteries in the Tibetan world. It wields a great influence and attracts a large number of pilgrims from throughout the Amdo region. On the way to make a circumambulation around the monastery, you can stop by a Ngakpa Dratsang in the west end of the monastery.
Day 5: Labrang - Sangko Grassaland - Lake Drangto Tso - Taktsang Lhamo (Chi: Langmusi)
Drive along the Sangko Grassland which is 15km southwest of Labrang, where many Tibetan nomads live in the traditional way of life in the black yak hair tents. You can hire horse to on the Sangko grassland. Before reach Taktsang Lhamo, you will visit Lake Drangto Tso and Gahai bird sanctuary.
Day 6: Taktsang Lhamo
Visit Lhamo monastery and Kirti Monastery. Nearby, take the opportunity to hike or ride horses along the forested hills.
Day 7: Taktsang Lhamo – Dzoge – Chuanzhusi monastery－Jiuzhaigou
You will travel to the nomad trading town of Zoige and Zungchu. Along the way you will see some of most beautiful grassland in Amdo and many Tibetans herding their yaks and sheep.
Day 8: Jiuzhaigou
Visit Jiuzhaigou National Park, The waters of Jiuzhaigou Valley are widely known for their crystal-clearness, pure transparency and rich colorfulness. The mountains, waters, grass, woods, animals and birds here all are keeping their simple primitiveness without a single trace of artificiality. In the Y-shaped valley embraced by mountains are dispersed 114 terraced lakes and many shoal-rapids and waterfalls gradually flow from the heights to lower places in the green mountain valley, winding 50kms, with the blue sky, the white snow mountains and green forests mirrored in the clear lakes, forming a realm of integration of man and heaven against the primitive water-mills, stockaded villages and the forest of Buddhist streamers.
Day 9: Jiuzhaigou - Maoniugou natural waterful - Qingchengshan Taoism Temple.
Qingchenshan Temple, located on a clouds mountain top about 60km away from Chengdu, Qingcheng Mountain (Qingchengshan) is one of the ancient cradles of Daoism. The area is green all year round and is known for its secluded tranquility. The mountain has numerous Daoist temples and sites along the paths to its peak.
Day 10: Qingchengshan – Chengdu or Chengdu Shuangliu airport,ending the tour.
In the morning, you can see the monks in the Taoism Temple to practice their Taiji with their masteries. You are also welcome to practice with the monks.
