Many people know Medog
Because of Baby Anne’s novel “Lotus”
There are vast forests, mountains and lakes, flying waterfalls everywhere.
Known as the “Xishuangbanna” of Tibet
It is also one of the most mysterious places in Tibet.
Medog is located in the southeast of Tibet
The lower reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo River, the southern foot of the eastern section of the Himalayas
It is an area of 31,000 square kilometers
A border town with a population of just over 10,000
but such a
,
A tiny place without mountains or dews
But it is called by the famous Tibetan scripture “Kanjur”.
“Baimagang, the pure land of Buddha, the most sacred hidden holy land”
hidden lotus flower
Medog is also known as “Baimagang”
Means “lotus flower” in Tibetan
It is said that the topography of Medog resembles a blooming lotus
And the local area also produces lotus, hence the name
Another theory is that more than 1000 years ago
Padmasambhava, the main founder of Tibetan Buddhism
I found this place that looks like a lotus flower
In the concept of Buddhism, the lotus is a symbol of auspiciousness
It was named “Boyu Baimagang”
And build houses and temples here, practice and spread the Dharma
Medog has gradually become a “lotus treasure land” for religious believers to pilgrimage
This is the lowest altitude on the Tibetan Plateau
The best environment
It is also the mildest place in Tibet and the most abundant rainfall.
The place with the best ecological preservation
Compared with other areas in Tibet, the four seasons in Medog County are like spring
There are more than 3,000 species of higher plants in the territory
There are about 10 kinds of bamboo plants and more than 80 kinds of wild orchid plants
in a sense
Medog exists as a symbol
This is the last county in China without roads
Located in the depths of the world’s first Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon
Because of the hidden terrain, it is also called
“A world hidden in clouds, snow-capped mountains, and dense forests”
“The Last Mystery on Earth”
Snow peaks, glaciers, forest sea
The suffocatingly beautiful Lotus Secret Realm
in the hearts of many travelers
The Holy Land of Medog is a wonderful chapter of life travel
The original here, the scenery here, the experience here
feeling here
It cannot be replicated anywhere in the world
Medog
It is such a blue flower blooming in the valley
There are countless legends about it
And the local scenery of Medog is just like its name.
mysterious and subversive
The best of China in Medog
The world-famous Yarlung Zangbo River winds thousands of miles
like a docile girl
When it flowed to Milinpai Village, it was uncharacteristically
Become a rushing dragon
After breaking through the barriers of the two snow peaks of Namjagbarwa and Raja Bailei
Turn around and roar south
Formed the world’s unparalleled horseshoe-shaped big turning wonders
Brahmaputra Grand Canyon
From Daduka Village in Milin County in the north (2880 meters above sea level)
South to Baxika Village, Medog County (115 meters above sea level)
The total length is 504.6 kilometers, and the deepest point is 6009 meters
With an average depth of 2268 meters, it is the largest canyon in the world
Even the Grand Canyon in the United States, once listed as the highest in the world,
It cannot be compared with the Colca Grand Canyon in Peru.
Known as the most beautiful mountain in China – Namjagbarwa
Its huge triangular peak is covered with snow all year round and shrouded in clouds and mist.
Therefore, it is also called “Shameful Girl Peak”
It is also the holy place of the oldest Buddhist “Yongzhongben religion” in Tibet.
Known as the “Father of the Mountains in Tibet”
In the “Beauty Pageant China” event organized by National Geographic of China
Namjagbarwa ranks first among the most beautiful mountains in China
Southeast Tibet has the largest “complete forest” in China
The main part is in Medog, with an area of 11,459 square kilometers
Moisturized by warm and humid air from the Indian Ocean
There is a lot of rain here
The upper limit of forest distribution can reach 4500 meters
It is extremely well preserved original and unparalleled biomass
Its biodiversity ranks among the highest in China
From Pai Town, Milin County
Paimo hiking trail that ends in Beibeng Township, Medog County
Due to the natural landscape along the way
Complete vertical vegetation distribution and challenges for hikers themselves
Has been sought after by outdoor enthusiasts
Known as the top ten classic hiking routes in China
natural danger in tranquility
About Medog
Liu Zanting of the Qing Dynasty once commented:
Thousands of miles of forest, flowers and trees everywhere
The wisteria is a bridge, sincerity is a paradise
However, a place as beautiful as heaven
not suitable for human habitation
Due to complex geology and climate change
for the people here
Every year, the mountains are blocked by heavy snow for seven or eight months, and they are isolated from the world.
Earthquakes, avalanches, landslides, mudslides and landslides
It’s no surprise
Medog belongs to the Linzhi area of Tibet
The west, north and east sides are blocked by the Himalayas and the Gangrigabu Mountains
Adjacent to India to the south
Brahmaputra Grand Canyon and Palong Zangbo Gorge split from one side
make the road impassable
Due to long-term traffic inconvenience
Medog is known as the “Plateau Island”
Medog needs five or six thousand tons per year
Living supplies and building materials
We can only wait until the mountain opening season when the ice and snow melt
man on horseback
to Medog
Mountain roads that can only be used by pedestrians and horse teams
You have to cross the snow-capped mountain passes over 4,000 meters.
Walk through the primeval forest where leeches and beasts infested
There may be avalanches, rainstorms, landslides, swamps along the way
someone said
Do not talk to those who have been to Medog
the implication is
There is no more difficult road in this world than going to Medog
But the closest to death is often the beginning of your rebirth
body in hell, mind in heaven
Even if the road ahead is difficult
Medog is still a paradise in the minds of every hiker
One mountain shows four seasons, ten miles of different sky
Enter Medog
available in a few hours
From alpine frigid to tropical rainforest
The diverse and colorful natural landscape
Medog has
All climates and vegetation types from the equator to the poles
From the Galongla Tunnel at an altitude of 3600 meters
To the county seat at an altitude of 1,100 meters, and then to Beibeng at an altitude of 800 meters
Can keep you within a range of less than 100 kilometers
Realize the leaping experience from the equator to the arctic
Medog in the Brahmaputra Gorge
Dense rivers and lakes, extensive swamps, snow mountains and glaciers
Huge difference in altitude
From Nanga Bawa Peak at an altitude of 7782 meters to
Basica at an altitude of only 152 meters
The vegetation is vertically distributed with the tropical rainforest as the base
Upward is the savannah belt
Subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forest belt, subtropical hard-leaved evergreen forest belt
…
It is one of the areas with the richest vertical plant belts in the world
Medog
Located at 29 degrees north latitude, 6 degrees higher than the Tropic of Cancer
far from the tropics
The Uniqueness of Tropical Rainforest in Medog County
It was not discovered by explorers until the end of the 19th century
However, the special climatic environment and relatively independent geographical unit
Make Medog more like a “condensed version of the earth”
Everyone who goes in and out of Medog
Can feel within dozens of kilometers or even several kilometers
Dramatic changes in heat and cold
It seems that winter and summer can be transformed in an instant
“Tropical Taoyuan” in the alpine snow region
Walk into Medog
You can see the galloping Yarlung Zangbo River flowing through the valley
Against the backdrop of snow-capped mountains, glaciers and lush forests
It’s the perfect combination of splendor and splendor
summer
The warm monsoon from the Indian Ocean
Along the lower valley of the Yarlung Zangbo River in the south, it continues to deepen
form a powerful water vapor transport channel
winter
Plateaus and Himalayas in the north
The formed natural barrier successfully blocked the cold current
Because of the steep drop in altitude on the southern slope of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
Brahmaputra Grand Canyon
Another northward passage is opened for the warm and humid monsoon from the Indian Ocean
So Medog is gentle and rich, not inferior to Banna
Become a tropical paradise embedded in the alpine snow region
Tropical jungles grow wildly at the foot of the snow-capped mountains
In the depths of the steaming canyon, wooden villages are scattered
The surrounding plantains are swaying, the bamboo forest is whirling, and small pieces of farmland are dotted among them.
Here is called “Xishuangbanna of Tibet”
However, only after a difficult and treacherous journey like hell
To reach this secluded paradise
Medog
One of the most mysterious places in Tibet
all its beauty and grandeur
all attractive
In this final destination, also in the process of arriving
“There is only one Medog in the world, but Medog owns the whole world”
Going to Medog means you have gone to the whole world
source:
360 Encyclopedia – Medog
Hike China’s “Medog, China’s first hiking line that is about to disappear! ”
Medog Tourism “The Best of Medog in China”
Tibetan Travel “There is only one Medog in the world, but Medog owns the whole world”
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