Lhazê - Lhazê

Lhazê or Lhatse, also Quxar or Chushar, is a city in Tibet.

background

The town Lhazê is a district town in the administrative district Xigazê and is divided into two parts. The new modern city based on the Chinese pattern is different from the old rural district (coordinates: 29.16027778, 87.68972222name is missing29 ° 9 '37 "N.87 ° 41 '23 "E) around 10 km away, with the Tibetan river flowing in between Yarlung Zangbothat at its lower reaches Brahmaputra called. The Friendship Highway also runs between the two parts of the city. Shops and restaurants can mainly be found in the new district.

getting there

In the street

Lhazê is on the Friendship Highway, which runs from Lhasa comes and to the national border Nepal leads. The highway branches off shortly after Lhazê G219 and follows the upper reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo to the mountain Kailashwho is sacred to both Hindus and Buddhists.

mobility

Tourist Attractions

Lhazê

The new town of Lhazê hardly offers anything worth seeing. The picturesque old town is dominated by the ruins of a dzong.

Surroundings

The Phuntsoling Monastery is one of the monuments of the People's Republic of China. It is on a hill about 1 km from the Yarlung Zangbo away, above are the remains of a dzong. It can only be reached via a gravel road, the coordinates are at (29.28388889, 87.75611111name is missing29 ° 17 ′ 2 ″ N.87 ° 45 ′ 22 ″ E). The monastery dates from the 13th / 14th centuries. Century, was an important center of the once 800 monks Jonang-School. After devastation during the Cultural Revolution, it was largely restored. Today around 40 mostly younger monks live here GelugSchool.

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accommodation

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