Let’s go to the roof of the world’s roof

 Ali is located in west of Tibet Autonomous Region; it is border on India, Nepal and Kashmir area. Whole district square is about thirty square kilometers; average elevation is 4.5 kilometers. And it concludes seven countries, but population is only sixty thousand; Ali is the smallest area of density of population. Ali is a cover place of Himalaya Mountain, Gangdise Shan and the Kunlun mountains; also it is original place of several famous rivers. Therefore, Ali also is named “ancestor of myriad mountains”, “original place of myriad rivers”. Over here, chain of mountains continuous and fluctuate; rivers scattered all over like stars in the sky; plain distant and wild. 

Because the climate of ancient Ali is warm and kind, with a large population, it is one of Tibet human birthplace; and it forms mysterious and special plateau culture; ancient shangshung culture is one of it, also Shangshung characters is abstruseness for contemporary. If there is some one who can understand shangshung characters in some day, it must make ancient Ali culture abundantly clear. Later Shangshuang displaced by Tubo, after Tubo perishing, and Tibet pass through four hundreds war; then Ali area set up Kuger kingdom, life and production is very developed in Kuger kingdom, population size is more than hundred  thousands, and it form a distinct contrast with today’s population of Ali which is about 70 thousands. Kuger kingdom died out in seven century; because there is no word recorded, its mysterious disappearing becomes eternal mystery. Also it makes all over the world archaeologists who are captivated; however, there is still no a believable final conclusion about that.     

Ali also is named “roof of world’s roof” or “Tibet’s Tibet”. Its topography is special; this area has much lakes and a little population; there are a lot of beautiful and charming snow mountains, and they are precipitous, grand and magnificent; also there are countless lakes, beautiful views and wild grassland, several and much valuable animals and rare plants. All of these will make you feel not tired but excited. Holy mountain Sloping chagdud qin and holy Lake Manasorovar which are regarded as “world center” also make you feel a kind of intangible respecting and revering regardless of your witnessing direction. What is more, kuger kingdom site, Tuolin monastery, Ban Gongcuo Lake natural view, Birds Island, Ke Jia temple; and special hole painting, also is like a bright pearl, making people keep memory. Well, there are four famous rivers, conclude peacock river, Lion spring river, elephant spring river and horse spring river; Ganges River, Indian River, the Sa Teleiji River and the Yarlung Zangbo River.

The whole square of Ali area is 345 thousands square kilometers; average evolution is more than 4.5 kilometers. It belongs to plateau temperate zone, cold zone monsoon drought climate, average amount of precipitation is 140 mm; average temperature is 1℃; there are one hundred days when it is have no frost, but cold and lack oxygen.  There are six thousands Tibetans living in the wild plateau where is about three hundreds thousands square kilometers. They mainly work in animal husbandry;

   Just like you can choose a lot of lines to have china and Tibet travel, there are two ways to get to Ali from Lhasa, northern line is about 1190 kilometers; southern is 1760 kilometers. However, although northern way is farer, there are more people choosing this way, and only tour camps choose southern line to go. The situation of road is well, however there is no regular car, you just only can rent a car or thumb a ride.