2025 Shiqu Travel Guide: Must-see attractions, popular food, hotels, transportation routes (updated in March)

#chinatravelitinerary 🏔️ – China’s Remote Tibetan Highland (A wild, untouched Tibetan plateau with snow-capped peaks, yaks, and ancient monasteries! 🏔️✨ Perfect for adventurers & culture lovers. 🌿) 🗓️ Day 1: Arrival & Exploring Tibetan Culture ✈️ Flight: Bangkok (BKK) → Chengdu (CTU) (~4 hrs) 🚗 Drive to Shiqu (~8 hrs) through spectacular highland scenery 🏡 Stay in a Traditional Tibetan Homestay 🏯 Afternoon: Visit a 400-Year-Old Hidden Monastery 🛕 Join a Tibetan Prayer Ceremony & Learn About Local Traditions 🍽️ Dinner: Butter Tea & Yak Stew 🌙 Evening: Watch the Sunset Over the Endless Grasslands ✨ 🗓️ Day 2: Highland Adventures 🐂 Morning: Walk Through the Vast Grasslands & See Nomadic Yak Herds 📸 Afternoon: Visit a Sacred Mountain Viewpoint for Stunning Photos 🚗 Drive Back to Chengdu & Fly Home ✈️

👉 In the scorching summer, the highest temperature here is only around 10 degrees Celsius. This is a place far from the hustle and bustle, where you can return to nature and experience faith. 👉 The Bage Mani Wall in Shiqu is entirely made of mani stones engraved with scriptures. It is currently the longest mani wall in the world and has been recorded in the Guinness World Records. 👉 From a distance, the 108 white stupas and the mani wall are lined up in a spectacular view. It resembles a Great Wall on the grassland, grand and solemn. 📍 Address: Changsha Gongma Township, Shiqu County, Sichuan 🚘 Transportation: Self-drive or chartered car It is about 60KM from Shiqu County to Bage Mani Wall. Long-distance buses can only reach Shiqu County, and you need to transfer to a local minibus to get to Bage Mani Wall. The one-way fare is generally between 50-100 yuan per person. 👉 Features: Mysterious highland sanctuary, pristine snow-capped grasslands, magnificent mountains and rivers, unique cultural customs. ❤️ Activities: 1. The Bage Mani Wall is 1.9 kilometers long, 2-3 meters thick, and about 3 meters high at its highest point. It has been built over 300 years and is still growing. 2. Walking around the wall takes about an hour, covering more than 3 kilometers. It is said that walking around the Bage Mani Wall three times can eliminate worries. 3. From a distance, the 108 white stupas and the mani wall are lined up in a spectacular view. As you get closer, you will see the densely engraved scriptures on the stone slabs, and the wall is embedded with window-like niches for Buddha statues. Along the wall are long prayer wheels, with devout worshippers passing through. Bage Mani

Western Sichuan is quite suitable for a summer trip, it's a vast area, so it probably won't be too crowded haha, I recommend a lesser-known summer travel destination ➡️ Shiqu County in Western Sichuan, where you can find Shijingcheng/Wall (the oldest, longest, and hardest to find); and Seda Monastery (the largest temple complex in Ganzi Prefecture, and the only Buddhist college in the Kham area qualified to award Geshe degrees). I visited three Shijingcheng/Walls last time, namely Songgemanicheng, Bagamani Shijing Wall, and Murimanicheng, which are known as the oldest, longest, and hardest to find. Among them, Murimanicheng Shijing Wall is indeed the hardest to find, as there is no location for it on the map, and there is not much information about it online, with no exact location. We found it by driving and asking locals along the way~ 🌟 The Shijing Wall is made up of stone blocks engraved with scriptures, piled up one by one. Every so often, there are several stupas connected, and on both sides of the wall, there are many large and small 'windows', inside which are placed one or several stone Buddha statues, some of which are even painted. 🌟 Shijingcheng is a square stone city built with stone blocks printed with scriptures, without any frame support or any adhesive. It is completely a 'city tower' piled up randomly by people, and the sight is very impressive!

Destination for the fourth day: Shiqu. From Dege to Shiqu, driving on National Highway 317, 456, 345, passing through Queer Mountain Tunnel, Yulong La Wetland Park, Xiazha Temple, Sun Lake (Yalong River). The Queer Mountain Tunnel was opened to traffic in September 2017, and there is no need to cross the Queer Mountain Pass (this is the highest point on the northern line of Sichuan-Tibet, known as the "first danger of Sichuan-Tibet"), the tunnel entrance is 4300 meters above sea level, it is the highest altitude highway tunnel in the world, the tunnel is 7km long, and it takes 20 minutes to pass. The Queer Mountain Glacier Viewing Platform is next to National Highway 317, where you can see the main peak of Queer Mountain, which is covered with snow all year round, with grassland in front, glaciers in the distance, and a magnificent view from afar, shining brightly.