With an altitude of 3800 meters, many thousand-year-old willow trees have grown round the Ranwok Lake whose surface is 2600 meters in length and 1000-5000 meters in width.
It is also called ‘the Tsogo Lake’, a famous lake of the Red sect. It is located in Shoka in Kongpo Gyamda County, 55 km to the east of Kongpo Gyamda and 300 kilometers from Lhasa.
Namtso, literally heavenly lake, is situated in a mountainous area about 60 km northwest of Damshung County. Namtso Lake extents 70 km from east to west, and 30 km from south to north, covering an area of 1,920 square kilometers and altitude of 4,748 meter above the sea level.
It is also called Tsomo Angla Renbo, which means ‘the swan lake’ in Tibetan. It is located within the boundary of Rutok County and is a famous international lake, situated at the border of China and Nepal.
Orogenic movement of the Himalayas formed the Tsada Clay Forest. It is located within the boundary of Tsada County, grand and particular, ‘miracle on the earth’ has done by the great nature.
It is located in the boundary of the Purang County. The Mapham Yumtso Lake is the highest fresh water lake in the world stretching over some 412 square kilometers with an average altitude of 4587 meters.
Mt. Kailash is located in Purang County, about 200 km from Sengge Khabab town and 100 km from the Purang town, it is adjoining to India and Nepal having an altitude of 6,656 meters which is the major peak of the Gangdise range. It has 250 glaciers and in abundance of water.
Torling temple located in the vicinity of Tsada town was originally built by Yixiau the king of Guge in 996 AD, where Lotsawa Rinchen Sangpo, the famous translator of Buddhist scriptures, had delivered sermons in the Latter Prosperity of Tibetan Buddhism.
In the mid-9th century, the Tubo Kingdom collapsed. The descendants of King Lang Dharma established their own independent Kingdoms Chide Nyimagon became the king of Ngari, who had three sons.
Located in Chamdo town, Jampaling is the largest monastery in Kham. It was built in 1444 by one of the disciples of Tsongkhapa, the founder of Gelupa sect.