Baiyu County Travel Guide

In this mysterious land, there are some roads that cannot be walked in high heels 🚶‍♀👠, and some people are people you will never meet in an office building 💼👫. Snow-capped mountains, grasslands, forests, canyons, rivers, lakes, temples 🏔🌳🌊🏞, sea of ​​flowers, nomadism, cooking smoke, pot village, bonfire... 🌺🐎🔥 This is Shengde Baiyu, a hidden world located in the north of the Dahengduan Mountains 🗻🌌. White jade is the transliteration of Tibetan, representing "auspicious virtue" and "region or place" 🙏✨. It belongs to Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, and is located in the northern section of the Hengduan Mountains in the transition zone from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau 🏞🌄. Here, the Ouqu River flows through, facing Gonggar County and Jiangda County in Tibet across the river 🌊🏔. In ancient times, this place was the territory of the White Wolf Kingdom, and was under the jurisdiction of Tubo during the Tang Dynasty 🏰🏞. After the 12th year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty (1639), it was gradually governed by the Derge Tusi. After the founding of New China, it was incorporated into Sichuan Province in October 1955 🇨🇳. Baiyu Gaden Monastery is a national key cultural relic protection unit, located on the hillside of Bailonggou in Hepo area of ​​Baiyu County, 4,800 meters above sea level, and is separated from Tibet by only one mountain ⛰🏯. It has a long history of nearly nine hundred years. Among the three-stream and six-great Vajra temples of the Nyingma tradition, Kathok Monastery is the most famous one 📜🏰. Ganbai Road is known as the most beautiful self-driving road in western Sichuan. It is about 220 kilometers long. Starting from Ganzi County, after about 4 hours of self-driving, the altitude is mostly above 4,000 meters 🚗🏞. Most of the roads are deserted and mobile phone signals often disappear 📵. The scenery along the way is varied, from grassland lakes to canyon rivers, from bare Danxia landforms to lush primeval forests 🌲🌳.