Gannan Transportation Guide during the Best Travel Season in Gannan

Many people think that Gannan is Tibet, but Gannan is not equal to Tibet. Gannan, the full name of Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, is dominated by Tibetans, Hui people and 24 other ethnic minorities. Don’t think it’s silly that Gannan is Tibet. The editor below will introduce to you the best tourist seasons in Gannan.

The best time to enter Gannan

January-February: Maugham Dharma Assembly, which means the "Buddha Worshiping Dharma Assembly" held from the first to the seventeenth day of the first lunar month every year, is the most important time in Gannan It is the most solemn ceremony of Tibetan Buddhism and the most solemn festival of the year for local Tibetans. There are dazzling array of Buddha statues such as Buddha display, treasure burning, Buddhism interpretation, sutra debate, Dharma dance, butter lantern festival, and incense turning bar.

This is the best time to experience Tibetan folk art in Gannan. In recent days, Gannan grasslands have been like "tens of millions of people added overnight." The buzz of people has awakened the grasslands, temples, cattle and sheep that have been dormant for a winter. Tibetan believers from the three provinces of Qingchuan traveled thousands of miles with their children, dressed in festive costumes, kowtowed, turned prayer wheels, lit butter lamps, offered khatas, prayed and made wishes. It is very rare to say that the "Spring Festival Fever" has witnessed a rare large-scale population migration, while the "Maughum Bodhidharma Society" has witnessed the spontaneous "family migration" of Tibetans, which is orderly and silent.

On the thirteenth day of the first lunar month, the Buddha-showing ceremony pushes the festival to a climax, and the Buddha-showing activity is held in the morning. Led by the exorcists, the monks carried the huge, colorfully embroidered Buddha statue to a fixed basilica near the temple. The monks praised the Buddha's merits and recited the bathing sutra, and everyone stood in awe. The scene is grand and shocking, colorful and crowded with Tibetan monks. (We highly recommend the "Labrang Temple" in Xiahe and the Buddha-showing Ceremony at Langmusi Temple).

June to early October: The climate in southern Jiangxi is suitable, the grass is green in summer, and the Gesang flowers are in full bloom. The nine colors of Gannan in autumn are no longer just nine colors, the forests are dyed, as beautiful as an oil painting. No matter where you look, it's a secret place on Earth.

How to get there and where to start

Since "Greater Gansu" is located in the three provinces of Gansu, Qinghai and Sichuan, many guides will suggest that all three places can be chosen as the departure city for the itinerary: Gansu Lanzhou, Xining, Qinghai, and Chengdu, Sichuan, are all provincial capital cities with relatively convenient transportation. In addition to friends who live in these provinces and surrounding provinces and cities, which have unique geographical advantages, we also recommend friends from far away to use "Lanzhou" as a starting point to extend your travel trajectory. The reason is very simple:

1. Most of the natural scenery and scenic spots in "Greater Gannan" are still concentrated at the junction of Gansu Province and Ganchuan. The relative distance is much closer than the other two cities, which will save a lot of money. The cost of time and money;

2. As a transportation hub city into the northwest, Lanzhou has frequent flights and affordable prices. Although Chengdu also has this advantage, the scenery of western Sichuan, which accounts for a small proportion of the "Greater Gannan" landscape, is really not worth traveling all the way from Chengdu, unless you have a particularly long vacation or a professional Players, include "Western Sichuan" and "Gannan" into your travel plans at once. Moreover, the road conditions in southern Lanzhou are better than those in northern Sichuan.

3. Recently, the Railway Bureau has successively released news: Starting from July 1, the high-speed rail trains from Shanghai to Lanzhou and Guangzhou to Lanzhou will soon be put into operation! What are you waiting for along the way? Beef noodles and sweet eggs are waiting for you!