Upon arrival in Shangri La, you will have entered the Tibetan cultural area and a landscape of barley fields and yaks scattered in the valleys. Walk around Dukezong Ancient Town, an important town of the Ancient Tea-horse Trade Caravan from Yunnan to Tibet and India. Walk up to the top of Guishan Hill or tortoise Hill, you will see the largest Prayer Wheel of the world and have a panoramic view of shangrila county and Dukezong Ancient Town. 

After breakfast,you will be dropped to Dabao Temple(Ringan in Tibetan) . Our professional Tibetan English-speaking tour guide will lead you to look for the place called "Shepherd's Footprint ".You will have picnic lunch on the way with the beautiful scenery.Aftre trekking around 5 hours,you will reach to campsite where is over 3600m above sea level. We will put up a camp for you to stay overningt there.

Stay overnight at campsite.

After breakfast,you will start another day for trekking through highland pasture.Here,you could enjoy the million kinds of plants on the way. You may get a chance to visit to different kinds of birds and Tibetan horses. You have to spend 7 days for trekking all day long.

Stay overnight at campsite 3800m above sea level.

After breakfast,you will cross the pass that is over 4200 above sea level. There is a legend,the peak of snow mountain is standing in front of you as soon as crossing the pass. Finally,you will get to the places called Abujee that surrounded by snow mountain,the lake looks like jade. Tibetan residents are durning the pine branch and milk to narate theirs bream in mind. You will have picnic lunch at lake side of Abujee,then downhill back to the pasture which you started the trekking on the first day. 

Stay overnight at campsite.

After the final breakfast ourside,you will trek back to Dabao Temple. Our drive will wait for you there,then you will be dropped to Nixi Potter Village.

Divide students into few groups at different families to learn about the pottery making.

Nixi village is 30 km away from Shangri-la city. It's famous for black pottery made by its local villagers. There are 148 families here totaling about 800 people. Over 50% of the village families are black pottery makers. The history of making pottery in this village dates back over 3000 years. The traditional way of making pottery is handed down from generation to generation. In ancient times, villagers use pottery to trade for rice, salt, tea, oil and everything they need for their livelihood. They use clay to make hot pot, tea pot, and fire pot, vase, incense burner and butter lamp. In this village tourists not only can learn how to make pottery, but can also enjoy the beautiful scenery and learn about Tibetan daily life.
Tangdui, in Nixi Township of Shangri-la County, is a small Tibetan village nestling along the popular adventure route from Shangri-la to Deqin in Northwest Yunnan. Tangdui Village is the most “Shangri-la” part of Shangri-la. As a tiny village standing by green grassland on which flocks of yaks, sheep and horses graze, it gives a sense of timeless tranquility. However, Tangdui Village is best known for its traditional black pottery, a miracle among Tibetan handicrafts.
About 70 percent of the families in the village are engaged in pottery-making that has a long history in Tibet Area (it can date back 4,000-5,000 years ago). What they make here are mostly household wares such as pots, jars, stoves, basins and even soap saucer. Thanks to the fine quality, even people from Tibet travel here to get black potteries. Nowadays many visitors would always make a stopover here, perhaps buying some wares or just watching how the locals deal with their ancient art.

In the morning, we will arrange the farm work in plateau area for students as well. Such as students could help local Tibetan families to do farm work in the fields on Summber. Go to get pine needles at surrounding mountain area on Winter.

Drive back to Shangri-la downtown in the afternoon. Visit the Ganden Sumtseling Monastery, the largest Tibetan monastery in Yunnan. Songzanlin Monastery has another alias - 'the little Potala Palace ', so named because the whole monastery is in the traditional style with mysterious atmosphere.

After breakfast,you will be dropped to Shangri-la airport to end the memorable tour to Shangri-la. Then you will take the domestic flight to Kunming,you will transfer the international flight by yourselves after you arrive in Kunming airport.

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