Holy elephant gate

This is the famous chado namka island on the North Bank of Namco. From a distance, the lakeside line of Namco forms two perfect arcs. In the middle of the arc stands a huge stone, which looks like an elephant

Holy elephant gate

Holy elephant gate

It is located in 5 villages of Qinglong Township, bange County, Nagqu Prefecture, Tibet, on chadorangka island in the north of namcuo, the holy lake.

Baidu, Gaode and other maps show that it is located in Zhaxi island on the South Bank of Namtso. In fact, the heavenly gate of the holy elephant is on the North Bank of Namco.

Route: walk 9km from Dangxiong county to the gate of the scenic spot, then open 23km to a fork in the road, here is namcuo Township, turn left and go west to Zhaxi Island, don't go to Zhaxi Island, go north to another road. It's 56 kilometers from the east of Namtso. The road is full of asphalt and the road condition is very good. After arriving at Dongga village, turn left to start with the dirt road. Walk 30 km to gangxiong village, and then walk 27 km to the north of Namtso to reach the holy elephant gate.

brief introduction

If you have a chance to have a chat with the old Tibetans, you will learn from them a mysterious place - "holy elephant gate". It hides quietly on the North Bank of Namco and looks across the holy lake to the holy mountain nyainqentanglah. This is the secret place in the heart of old Tibet. It is also the ultimate place of beautiful scenery in Tibet.

The holy elephant gate is located in 5 villages of Qinglong Township, bange County, Nagqu Prefecture, Tibet It is said that in the 8th century, master lianhuasheng, who was invited to Tibet by King Chisong Dezan, subdued nyainqentanglah and betrothed Namtso to nyainqentanglah. He became a couple. A grand wedding ceremony was held on the island. The night before the wedding, 108 supernatural powers spent one night The stone gate is shaped like a holy elephant. It is built from northeast to southwest for the passage of nyainqentangla mountain. People call this stone gate holy elephant Heaven Gate. As the name suggests, the heavenly gate of the holy elephant. A huge natural stone elephant stands on the Bank of the vast Namco Lake. Its trunk just goes deep into the lake, as if it is absorbing the sacred water from the snow. The stone elephant's body and trunk, like a huge door, is the holy gate to heaven. As a holy place of Tibetan Tantric school, countless eminent monks and hermits have been practicing in this place for thousands of years.

For Namco, which many people are familiar with, the focus is on the Tashi peninsula. And this is like a drop in the bucket for the vast Tianhu lake. There are many wonderful scenery around the holy lake.

The heavenly gate is a holy land hidden in legend. Few people can get here, and even many local people have never heard of it. Due to the long journey and the desolation of the no man's land in northern Tibet, only truly devout people can come here to worship the rare beauty in the world.

In 2015, the year of the sheep in the Tibetan calendar, according to the Tibetan tradition of "the year of the horse turns to the mountain and the year of the sheep turns to the lake", Namco has become a destination for believers to worship. For the convenience of believers, the government built a road around the lake to make it more convenient to worship the holy lake. And this also makes the "heavenly gate of the holy elephant" hidden on the North Bank of the holy lake appear and sink. After standing quietly for thousands of years, it finally comes to the secular world.

But in any case, it moved people. Because it has a shocking scenery, when you stand on the high cliff, the eagle hovers between heaven and earth, you can't distinguish the water and sky in front of you. When you stand on the shore of the holy lake and let the waves beat against the natural water bay, you will have the illusion of standing in front of the vast sea. When you look into the distance, the tall nianqingtangla mountain stands between the heaven and the earth, and then you turn around in a trance. It turns out that you are still in the beautiful snow plateau.

natural landscape

The heavenly gate of the holy elephant -- the end of Tibet's beautiful scenery. There has never been such a shocking scene, where nature and humanity are combined in the magnificent world. The blue holy lake, just like the sea, goes straight into my mind. I don't know who created such a beautiful scene? The most holy snow mountain, the purest lake water, in the snow plateau, they always depend on each other. A natural water bay appears in front of us, connecting with the blue lake. It is the most beautiful painting in the world.

Best place to enjoy

The high cliff on the North Bank of Namco is an excellent place to enjoy the panoramic view of the "holy elephant gate". Never seen the blue lake spread in front of us, and the mysterious "holy image" stood by the lake. Let people sigh the legend of nature!

periphery

There is a temple ruins in Tianmen Fjord, the sacred elephant. It has been destroyed for decades during the struggle. It used to be how unimportant, it was so decadent forgotten for decades, only the sun, moon and stars and the vast blue Namco silent together. The inner side of the ruins is close to the cliff full of caves. The caves are different in size, function and luxury. Some of them only allow one body to practice, some expand the outer wall, some gather to recite Sanskrit, and some are Sutra caves. Thick black oil is common on the rock walls of caves, which is smoked by cooking smoke all the year round. This shining oil black makes the empty ruins real, once, ever existed.

traffic

Due to the construction of the highway around the lake and Dangxiong Bangor high-grade highway, the journey around Namco is not as hard as before. If you go in the opposite direction, tourists can get to the "holy elephant gate" from Lhasa in only one day. But that's not the rule. If you have time, you are still advised to walk around the lake clockwise, which will bring you great merits. On the first day, you can live in Zhaxi peninsula. On the next day, you can walk around the lake. In the afternoon, you can reach the "holy elephant gate". The newly built road around the lake makes the trip around Namco more convenient. Although it's still a dirt road, it's very smooth. There's no problem with all kinds of models. Driving in no man's land in northern Tibet, but there is such a way to go, is a very good thing. But it is very easy to take a fork in the road, so we need to make enough strategies in advance. Try to take the route along the lake.

get accommodation

There is a tent hotel nearby, about 150 yuan per person.

Address: Namco

Longitude: 90.6393702

Latitude: 30.6644393

Chinese PinYin : Sheng Xiang Tian Men