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Labrang Monastery

26.32 MILES

With its succession of squeaking prayer wheels (3km in total), hawks circling overhead and the throb of Tibetan longhorns resonating from the surrounding¡­

Snowland Art

25.91 MILES

Tucked away down the backstreets of Xiahe not far from Labrang Monastery, Snowland Art is a family-style fine art and handicrafts training school set up¡­

Milarepa Palace Buddhist Temple

0.12 MILES

A towering nine-storey layer cake of a temple, the Milarepa Palace is both deeply steeped in mystery and unusual in the Tibetan world as different¡­

Gongtang Pagoda

26.25 MILES

With an interior splashed with murals and illuminated by a combination of yak-butter candles and electric lamps, the golden 31m-tall Gongtang Pagoda is a¡­

Sangke Grasslands

29.38 MILES

Expanses of open grassland dotted with Tibetans and their grazing yak herds highlight a trip to the village of Sangke, 14km from Xiahe. Development has¡­

Barkhang

26.19 MILES

The three-storey Barkhang serves as the monastery¡¯s traditional printing temple. With rows upon rows of more than 20,000 wood blocks for printing, it¡¯s¡­

Hall of Hayagriva

26.15 MILES

A repository of vivid and bright murals, the hall encapsulates a startlingly fierce 12m-high effigy of Hayagriva ¨C a wrathful manifestation of the usually¡­

Hermitage Ruins

26.59 MILES

What remains of this hermitage are earthen walls overgrown with nettles, making the real attraction here the view of the town nestled into the mountains¡­