Qudi

It’s famous for the wide grassland Qiang Tang, one of the five biggest grasslands of China. The average height of the grassland is about 4,500 meters above sea level, so the local people call it Qiang Tang.

Qiang Tang means the northern highland. Qudi means Black River in Tibetan, there are many natural scenes and cultural heritages, like the Heavenly Lake Namco, Nianking Tanggula Holy Mountain, the ruins of Xiangxiong, the cave frescos in Dangxiong, KulouQiang(the Wall constructed with hundreds of skulls). It’s also the fairyland for wild life.

Tibet antelopes are the most precious. The western part Qiang Tang is called “no-man land” and spreads about 200,000sk.km, The average elevation is over 5,000 meters above sea level. It’s considered the forbidden zone of life and is regarded as the purest area of Tibet as it is without human footprint. There are over 370 lakes in the western part of Qiang Tang, thousands of water birds live there. Some of them came from the Mediterranean.