Baqing County is a county under the jurisdiction of Nagqu City. It is located in the northeast of Nagqu City. It is adjacent to Dingqing County, Changdu City in the east, Ruxian County and Suo County in Naqu City in the south, Nierong County in Nagqu City in the west, and Zaduo County in Qinghai Province in the north. Baqing is high in the north and low in the south, with the southern foot of Tanggula Mountain in the north, where the famous Bujia Snow Mountain is located, and the South Qiangtang Great Lakes Basin in the south. The average altitude of Baqing is 4,500 meters.
We went from Dingqing County to Baqing County on October 27, 2021, and visited Tashilie Temple and Yuexiong Glacier on the way; we left Baqing County on October 28, and originally planned to go to Ruru County to visit Sap Holy Mountain, and walked to Ruru County Near Kangqingla Mountain, there was a sudden heavy snowfall, and the road up the mountain was covered with snow. Considering the continuous mountain road of tens of kilometers and the pass at an altitude of 5,300 meters, it was very risky to go forward in the snow, so I changed my itinerary to Nagqu.
Tashilie Temple, also known as Zase Temple, is located on the G317 National Highway about 40 kilometers west of Dingqing County. This is the transition zone from the northern Tibetan Plateau to the Hengduan Mountains. The terrain has deep valleys and relatively flat terrain. the mesas. Tashilie Temple is located on the edge of a sharp and protruding mountain, with cliffs to the west and mountain terraces to the east. A Tibetan village named Tashilin Village is adjacent to it on the east side.
Tashilie Temple is an ancient Tibetan Buddhist temple. The temples are distributed in an east-west direction. The most resplendent and magnificent Buddhist hall in the west is built according to the mountain situation, which is quite like the Potala Palace. The appearance of Lunpo Monastery.
The most respectable people are those who turn the scriptures. They climb up the mountain from the bottom of the cliff every day, and they have to pay more physical strength than the monasteries on the flat ground.
Among the deep mountains more than 80 kilometers east of Baqing County, there is Bujia Snow Mountain, the highest peak in eastern Tibet. Its main peak is 6,328 meters above sea level. There are five giant hanging glaciers around it. It is the highest mountain in the world. An area of dense hanging glaciers, which were only discovered in 2016.
Yuexiong Glacier is a glacier on the south side of Bujia Snow Mountain. Looking down from the air, it looks like a giant dragon, pouring down from the peak to form a hanging glacier, which is spectacular. At the foot of the glacier, a lake is as clear as washing , exudes a pure breath, and the colorful prayer flags fluttering in the wind by the lake add a lot of vitality to the world.
In 2013, we drove from Leiwuqi to Nagqu by ourselves. At that time, the G317 National Highway was extremely bad and the road conditions were extremely poor. It left a deep impression on us and made us reluctant to embark on this journey again. In recent years, After receiving news of the completion of this section of road renovation one after another, we finally mustered up the courage to choose this route to enter Tibet. When we actually walked on this road, we found that not only the road had changed, but also the appearance of the villages, towns and cities along the way. It is also a new look, from here you can also deeply feel the development of the motherland.
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