Shika snow mountain

Shika snow mountain scenic spot is located 7 kilometers southwest of Shangri La County. It is adjacent to Napahai Nature Reserve in the north, qianhushan scenic spot, the world natural heritage of "Three Parallel Rivers" in the south, Songzanlin temple and dukezong ancient city in the East, and mysterious Canyon and surging Jinsha River in the West, covering an area of about 65 square kilometers.

The highest peak of shika mountain is 4449.5 meters above sea level, and the lowest point of Napa meadow is 3270 meters above sea level, with a relative height difference of 1179 meters. It almost contains all the three-dimensional ecological landscape resources of the subalpine zone and the alpine zone of the "Three Parallel Rivers" World Natural Heritage Site in Northwest Yunnan.

Due to the plateau, complex landform and the influence of natural conditions, it is very important to travel to Shangri La for the choice of season. The best time to travel to Shangri La is late spring and early summer from May to July and autumn from September to October. Apart from the festival reasons, the temperature and weather conditions during this period are the most suitable for travel. The flowers are all open, the green grass and trees are all in view, the sky is boundless blue, the scenery is the most beautiful, but the temperature difference between the two seasons is also large.

Shika snow mountain

Shika snow mountain scenic spot is located in the southwest of Jiantang Town, Shangri La County and the southeast edge of the Qinghai Tibet Plateau. It is 7.34 kilometers away from the county seat and 4500 meters above sea level. National 5A tourist attractions. It is not only the nearest comprehensive tourist attraction to Shangri La airport in Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, but also the only three-dimensional ecological and cultural tourist attraction with sightseeing conditions in Diqing plateau.

Purpose of scenic spots

With the tenet of "tourists and reputation first", the scenic spot aims to meet the higher aspirations and needs of tourists at home and abroad. With advanced equipment and complete service facilities, tourists can walk to the top of the mountain, enjoy the unlimited natural scenery of Shangri La's mountain belt and high mountain liushitan, and experience the culture of the top of the mountain and the holy mountain outside the temple The magic charm of.

Landscape features

The natural ecological landscape tourism resources of the scenic spot are composed of geological landscape, vertical distribution of snow mountain, Linghu, forest, meadow eco-tourism resources, rare animals and plants and ornamental plants; the human landscape resources take the sacred mountain religious culture and Shangri La vertical nomadic culture as the theme to inject vitality into the natural ecology. Several functional routes are set up in the region, including cable car plus hiking pilgrimage sightseeing mass eco-tourism line, hiking pilgrimage sightseeing eco-cultural tourism line, comprehensive eco-cultural tourism line and village folk culture tourism line, so as to fully meet the needs of tourists' Pilgrimage sightseeing, outdoor sports, soft exploration, hiking, scientific investigation and folk customs participation experience.

The origin of snow mountain

"Shika" is a Tibetan translation of Shangri La, which means "a mountain with red deer". Two red deer represent all living horses who are listening to the Buddhist scriptures. Therefore, deer is one of the auspicious animals in Tibetan Buddhism, which means "auspicious longevity and Exorcism".

Historically, shika mountain, located between dukezong in the east of Tieqiao in Shenchuan and the west of Tieqiao (today's Tacheng in Lijiang), was the link between Tubo and Nanzhao. Yulong Snow Mountain in Jiangyu echoed in the southeast, and Meili Snow Mountain in the northwest. It was the first holy mountain that the ancient tea horse road between Yunnan and Tibet entered Tibet during Tubo Period. The holy mountain helped the Tibetan Zanpu to live in harmony with Nanzhao and achieve mutual benefit and win-win results, and promoted the beautiful marriage between Nanzhao Princess and Tubo Zanpu; the holy mountain helped the merchants along the ancient tea and horse road who came for pilgrimage from generation to generation to have a smooth journey and prosperous business; the holy mountain made the Shangri La people live a happy and auspicious life.

Geomorphological features

The diversity of Geology and geomorphology is a major characteristic landscape resource in shika mountain scenic area. As it is located in the three river valley of Hengduanshan, the Qinghai Tibet Plateau, the geological structure is complex, with many kinds of strata exposed, sandstone, limestone, slate and siliceous rock crisscross distribution, and the structural characteristics of section, fault, fold and texture are very obvious; in addition to many mysterious canyons, glacial lakes, meadow streams and gravel caves, there are also a variety of angular peaks, "U" shaped valleys Impact fans, glacial moraines and ancient glacial landforms, etc.

Biological species

Rich biodiversity is another major feature of shika mountain scenic area. According to the preliminary investigation and statistics, there are at least 399 species of seed plants belonging to 203 genera and 73 families in the scenic area. Among them, there are 12 kinds of national protected plants, such as Pteris yunnanensis, Isoetes altissima, Tricholoma matsutake and Picea oleifera. There are 151 kinds of rare and precious medicinal materials, such as Cordyceps sinensis, snow tea, pearl ginseng, Fritillaria cirrhosa, rock cabbage, Gentiana macrophylla, Jinbuhuan, taoerqi and artemisia selengensis, etc. There are more than 100 species of wild birds and mammals, including 30 species of rare and endangered animals under state-level key protection, such as leopard, black necked Crane, spotted tailed hazelnut, vulture, black bear, brown bear, red panda, forest musk deer, blood pheasant, Tibetan eared pheasant, spoon chicken and scarlet breasted parrot.

Seasonal scenery

The natural landscape of shika mountain is dynamic. It is summed up as such a sentence: "spring to see green grass, summer to see flowers, autumn to see autumn, winter to see snow.".

The spring of the plateau comes late. In May, the top of shika mountain is still covered with snow, but the dam at the foot of the mountain begins to turn into a green carpet, with grass in the sky and flocks of cattle and sheep. Blue sky, white clouds, snow mountains, meadows, Tibetan houses, cooking smoke, cattle and sheep, shepherd boy, the nature of nature, show in front of you is a "heaven and man in one" wonderful pattern. Summer is the season of blooming flowers in the scenic area. At first, rhododendrons are everywhere, followed by colorful herbaceous flowers, such as yellow Primula and Stellera chamaejasme, red Primula and Narcissus Zhongdian, blue iris southwest and Artemisia racemosa, etc. 7、 In August, subalpine meadows such as Jiashen ranch were replaced by Ligularia reticulata with banana like leaves and Pedicularis equisetifolia with different colors. Beautiful ornamental plant rhubarb with bracts grew on the edge of ice eroded lake, but the alpine meadows on the top of the mountain became a world of dwarf and exotic flowers. From June to August, the shika mountain scenic spot is full of colorful meadows, which makes tourists drunk.

In September, when Napa meadows were dyed red by the patches of Stellera chamaejasme, the shika mountains began to be dyed golden by the patches of redwood and birch willow forests. It seems that in the harvest season of the year, nature deliberately wants to wear a golden hat on shika mountain and a red cassock on Napa meadow to celebrate the harvest of the year and pray for peace in the coming year.

Snow in winter makes shika mountain a dream world. Under the blue sky, white clouds, white mountains, white meadows and white Tibetan houses tell a beautiful legend. The dynamic nature of the ecological landscape of shika mountain scenic spot is also reflected in the vertical change of the three-dimensional climate of Mianshan mountain. From October of each year to May of the next year, nearly eight months, although jiantangba interprets the plateau impression of "red in autumn, white in winter and green in spring", the top of shika mountain is covered with snow. It is the shika snow mountain that keeps jiantangba's Shangri La impression of "Snow Mountain Meadow" for three seasons. Nowadays, the combination of the snow scenery on the top of shika mountain and the cableway is a new landscape in Shangri La. The grass is green, the sky is blue, the forest waves carry the sound of water, the bird's voice accompanies the fragrance of flowers, walking among them, you will feel relaxed and happy, and forget to return.

The best travel time is from January to March and from September to October. Due to the plateau, complex landform and the influence of natural conditions, it is very important to travel to Shangri La for the choice of season. The best time to travel to Shangri La is late winter and early spring from January to March and autumn from September to October. Apart from the festival reasons, the temperature and weather conditions during this period are the most suitable for travel. The flowers have opened, the green grass and trees are everywhere, the sky is boundless blue, and the scenery is the most beautiful. But the temperature difference between the two seasons is also large.

Address: Southwest of Jiantang Town, Shangri La County, Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province (about 7km away from the county)

Longitude: 99.632038936523

Latitude: 27.793586975414

Tour time: half a day

Traffic information: 1. Take bus No.9 at Dawa Road (North Gate parking lot of dukezong ancient city, Grain Bureau slope), and the destination is the scenic spot. The first bus is at 7:30, and the last bus is at 17:00, every hour

2. It's about 60 yuan from the county to the scenic spot

Ticket information: 270 yuan per person (including cableway ticket)

Opening hours: 8:00-16:00

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