Come to the ancient village

Come to the ancient village

Laigu village, Ranwu Town, Basu County, Tibet is located in the hinterland of the boshula mountains in the southeast of the Qinghai Tibet Plateau. Ranwu lake, one of the most beautiful lakes in Tibet, is nearby. This laigu village, which is famous for its laigu glaciers (one of the three largest glaciers in the world), is only 20 kilometers away from the 318 national highway of Sichuan Tibet highway (bingcharan highway is also coming in the South). It is surrounded by beautiful lakes and magnificent snow peaks Six marine glaciers can be seen in the park. Such a natural landscape is unique in China and even in the world. It is an excellent place to watch glaciers in China. Laigu village is a small village at the end of the glacier. Laigu village and Ranwu lake are closely related. The village is surrounded by snowy mountains. When the four peaks of Geling, Xiana, buwangla and dayuzhangdui surround, each snowy mountain pushes down huge fan-shaped glaciers, forming barrier lakes in the front of glaciers. Laigu village is scattered between glaciers and snowy mountains. Cattle and sheep go out of the house. Chickens and dogs sing to each other. It is a beautiful place with idyllic fields, Buddhist pagodas and mulberry smoke.

General situation of the village

places of historic figures and cultural heritage

The simple village road along the edge of Ranwu lake, even if it comes to the ancient village, it still maintains the most original style of semi farming and semi pastoral Tibetan village. The houses in the village are relatively scattered, divided into several smaller villages and settlements, such as shatuna, lanage, qu'e, ranmu, etc. The farthest distance is two or three kilometers, and there are patches of farmland between the small villages.

In the ancient village, some young people can speak Chinese. Many families in the village already have motorcycles, and some have a small generator. Every family has pure butter tea, highland barley Ciba and dried beef, and even one or two of them will fry one or two simple Sichuan dishes for you.

natural landscape

There are 46298 glaciers in China. Compared with the mountains and rivers, there are a lot of them. In China, compared with mountains and rivers, there are fewer tourists who can get in touch with glaciers. However, China's glaciers are more magnificent than mountains and rivers. Many people never forget to see the second and third glaciers after seeing glaciers once. In laigu village, you can see Meixi glacier, Yalong glacier, ruojiao glacier, Dongga glacier and xiongjia glacier at the same time Because all these glaciers surround laigu village, they are called laigu glaciers. Among them, Yalong glacier, which is 12 kilometers long, is the most majestic glacier. It extends from the main peak at an altitude of more than 6000 meters to the edge of laigu village at an altitude of about 4000 meters. The black-and-white "middle moraine" adds a bit of beauty to its magnificence, which is hard to see in other glaciers.

General situation of Tourism

traffic

When you come to see the ancient glaciers, you can take all the regular buses from Chengdu, Lhasa, Changdu and Linzhi to Ranwu Town, and then rent a car to the ancient village. You can also take the bus to Chayu in Changdu or Linzhi, and get off through zongba village. It's only about 10 kilometers from zongba village to the ancient village. You can drive from Chengdu or Kunming along the Sichuan Tibet highway to Ranwu Town, then turn to the provincial road to Chayu, walk along the provincial road for about 10 km to see the memorial archway of the laigu glacier, then turn to the village road of the memorial archway, and walk 10 km to the ancient village. Ordinary cars and vans can only park in front of the archway door at most. If they want to re-enter, they must use off-road vehicles and wade through many rivers. It takes 10 to 12 hours to walk from Ranwu town to the ancient village on foot. Along the way, there are several villages to rest. All the way is picturesque. You can go back to Ranwu town on the same day by car or by car. It takes two to three days to walk.

get accommodation

However, there are youth hostels in Wuzhen, about 20 yuan per bed, plenty of hot water and no less than 10 restaurants in the town.

When you come to the ancient village, you can stay in a Tibetan hotel for about 30 to 50 yuan. In addition, tickets will be charged when entering the village.

Glacier scenery can be seen all the year round. If you have enough time, you can walk half a day to the foot of Dongga glacier. However, due to the obstruction of ice lake, the nearest glacier can only reach the ice surface in winter.

Address: Basu County, Changdu, Tibet Autonomous Region

Longitude: 96.855811952393

Latitude: 29.283254262557

Chinese PinYin : Lai Gu Cun