Must Sees
Optional Attractions
Leaving the eastern bamboo forest and go up along the Yunnan-Tibet Road, tourists can arrive at the Baimang Snow Mountain Natural Reserve. The terrain of the Zone is sloping from northwest to southeast, along which are high mountains, steep slope and deep river valley. Its mountain peaks is always about 4000 meters high. The highest one Zhalaqueni Peak is of the altitude of 5640 meters; the lowest is named Xiaruoxiang with an altitude of 2080 meters. Jingshang Jiang and its branch Zhubalong River are two main rivers in the Zone.
Baimang Snow Mountain is the largest natural reserve with the highest altitude in Yunnan Province at present. There is a well-protected Frigid Zone original forest, with large quantities of coniferous trees. Summer is the best season for tourists to pay a good visit to the Mountain. At that time, along the Yunnan-Tibet Road are intriguing sceneries, clean ice and snow melting, wriggling stream murmuring, rhododendron flourishing at full bloom, all birds beautifully singing and a crowd of monkeys playing.
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