The Most Popular Zoo Travel in Switzerland - Basel Zoo

Basel Zoo in Switzerland was opened in 1874, allowing it as one of the oldest zoos in operation today rank. The zoo is, in fact, attracted the second most visited in all of Switzerland. Over 6000 animals in this popular destination in Switzerland, including the dwarf hippopotami Somolian wild ass there! 

Basel Zoo in 12 acres, about 24 acres of lush parkland in the heart of city is located. You are more likely to see their animals with the design opportunities. This guide will help you find your way round and gives you a wide range of information about various aspects of zoo life. It is designed to stimulate your imagination, try to stay in the zoo We provide enjoyable and lasting memories of your visit. Additional information can be information boards located in each area by the zoo around found. 

Basel Zoo enjoyable experience to every climate and every season. Watch the awakening of nature in spring and see all the baby animals, or let their children were close to zoo animals in our children. Whether under the trees standing in the cold watching elephants summer heat, the closest relatives we studied monkeys in the house, immersing themselves in the midst of coral reefs and the Amazon in vivarium warm in winter, or enjoying the interactive exhibits home Gamgoas, Basel Zoo offers you an exciting experience at any time of year. 

Baby Animals 

Please input the information boards. The baby animals that you can be seen day visit to tell. 

Restaurant 

Great self-service buffet restaurant they provide a wide selection of dishes, right in the middle of the zoo is located. There is ample seating inside and outside the prison under the plane trees, with a view of the elephant enclosure. Their full-service restaurant on the first floor. From the terrace you fantastic panoramic view over the main entrance to the cafeteria zoo.The enjoy our complete selection of meals and snacks with a range of ice cream, sandwiches, and hot and cold drinks. There is covered outdoor seating for a picnic in front of the zoo restaurant. 

Resting animals - they lazy? 

Animals may spend much of their time resting. Nature in the films we are given false notion of a pet day is speed. Documentary shows us an action packed scene after another, living wild animals' to be displayed in prominent so that we can be as many aspects of behavior and lifestyle might see. Visiting the zoo is quite the opposite. Here you will discover that the rest is an important job for wild animals is not a sign of fatigue. Rest goals, like many energy efficiency, chewing cud, or relax after an activity. Some of the most important activities like lazing around look, for example when filling your brooch pelicans, elephants mud baths or the crocodiles are in the sun. A Closer Look at "bored" Animals! 

Feeding time - visitors should not feed animals 

Our animals are fed throughout the zoo is prohibited. 

To each animal species - we have over 600! - Proper diet demands specialized knowledge. Visitors feed the animals interact with the control diet, and put animal health at risk. 

Feeding time in certain areas in the text to be shown. Some species - especially the large carnivores - they purposely took different days so they are not normally accustomed to be fed. 

All about building sites, finance and running a zoo. 

Basel Zoological Garden adhere to a zoo and aquariums around the world, nature conservation strategies. This means that the maintenance of the zoo animals in their ideal conditions, as well as education and public information. 

In Zolli (zoo), as the zoo is that we love the people known as Basel, you may be in the building site, get in your way as you walk around this beautiful garden animals find. However, these sites keep part of the building to the zoo the day. Knowledge of wild animals lifestyle, social and biological communities Zoo is growing rapidly. Why the Basel Zoo is constantly monitoring the conditions under which animals are kept and make them compatible with the animals and visitors need the following: 

Keeping up with scientific advances in zoo biology: new knowledge on a particular species and preserve their way of life may need to make significant changes in the area from time to time. 

Running the zoo: the zoo features older, like us all. Structural or mechanical defects in animal houses may mean that other areas should be adequate and taken down and repaired or completely rebuilt. 

Visitor needs: visitors to the animal enclosure to see the day given interesting information about animals and ecosystems. Zoo animals such as ambassadors for their species, to intercede for the protection of their habitat. 

Affordability: a very specialized area of animal structures is unique and requires adequate funding. Basel Zoo could from the budget does not provide their income and depends on gifts and donations. New landscaping can be built only when necessary funds are available. 

Domino Effect: Just Basel Zoo is located in the heart of city. Another place for it to expand there. If the area has been modified, moved or enlarged is a knock on effect of other areas and their inhabitants. Sometimes this means that animals with regard to the actual project will not directly be given to other zoos or been transferred. 

Vivarium - World Tour to explore different life 

And houses a rich variety of species - vivarium at the Basel Zoo is a surprise and discovery. Your weird and wonderful shapes marine, desert and rainforest life encounter. Simple creatures or strange colors, unspectacular at first glance, the attractive behavior indicates closer inspection. The aim of the vivarium is to show the species selected from the widest possible range of habitats for animals and families in order to show the diversity of life. Their representatives - and ambassadors for - countless millions of life forms and natural life that we must support and protect today. 

Nearly 400 different species in 70 tanks and terrariums of live vivarium. Once you have found and marveled at them all, you have covered 380 meters in distance, past a quarter of a million liters of water, walked around in a circle and has twice completed the world tour. Vivarium area visitors travel around the world - in high and low water. Trip starts in the center of Europe, led throughout the Mediterranean and the lakes of Africa to the Red Sea and Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean. You descend to the coral reefs, go on a trip to Asia and the Amazon, and after passing through mangrove swamps and intertidal areas you back on dry land at the South Pole home of King and Gentoo penguins. Your tropical heat of deserts, steppes and dense forests with exotic reptiles and amphibians your step. 

Colorful water world 

In your vivarium plants and animals that may never before seen encounter. Variation is enormous. Children, especially by sea stars, snails and shrimp fascinated. They love watching Template Leopard sharks, jelly fish, transparent and colorful coral, penguins - so agile in the water - and crocodile lazily blinking. 

Apart from mammals, representatives of almost all major groups of animals live here, the majority being cool. No deep sea fish and large sharks, the animal of this kind to the wall or barrier, not in its natural state is used and the most part can not be compatible with its environment no longer there. No borders and oceans, the best place for them to live. 

Behind the scenes at the vivarium - what happens there? 

 Department vivarium seen by visitors constitutes only a quarter of all homes. 75 percent of the area out of sight. Behind the scenes in the vivarium is all hustle and bustle. This is where the perfect environment and climate for hundreds of animal and plant species is created. This is where all the equipment, critical infrastructure and facilities are: heating and cooling systems, climate control systems, filters, water and salt water treatment and production systems, workshops, food stores and spare parts stores. Countless fish and reptile species in a separate breeding and quarantine rooms, where sea horses give birth to young, their baby tortoises and tortoise eggs and coral reefs and marine plants grow upbringing. 

History 

vivarium in 1972 after several years of construction opened. The realization of a dream long held dear by the Basel Zoo and many local people from having a large public aquarium. Small Aquariums made to the way the old ticket office back in 1942, but it was enough to satisfy big ambitions for the aquarium. vivarium widely present a milestone in the history of the Basel Zoo admire. Many of the ideas developed in different stages of the new aquarium was scheduled in the time. For example, water-world tour, guided or with visitors order through specific themes or geographical earth, was unknown at the time. Themed tours are now a standard feature of any good public aquarium. 

Aquarium Feeding style 

As we know very little about the natural feeding habits and diet of many species in the vivarium, any newcomer to become gradually more types of food are accustomed. A wide selection of different food vivarium for fish in there. It consists mainly of deep sea creatures frozen, but occasionally commercially available foods are used, or even live food. In order to breed successfully fish in the sea, "sea plankton" is laboriously grown as a food for the first time they are small larvae are feeding. Are fed three times a week in the vivarium, but some species should be given its own food daily or several times a week. 

Nutrition session on Monday, Wednesday and Saturdays are 3:00 to 4:00 

Other information 

Basel Zoo is open to visitors 365 days a year 

January February, 8:00 to 5:30 pm 

March to April 8:00 to 18:00 

May, June, July, August 8:00 - 6:30 pm, 

Sept. .- Oct. 8:00 to 06:00 

November-December 8:00 to 05:30 pm 

Adopt a pet 

Do you have a favorite animal? We would be pleased if you decide to adopt one. If you do, your donation will cover costs to provide food and go up to keep the animals occupied and thereby you will be an important contribution to our work. Big thank you in advance on behalf of all our animals. 

Guided Tour 

Do you want to find out more about animals, about the work that goes behind the scenes, or on technical aspects of what our zoo? Contact us to arrange a guided tour. 

Children Birthdays 

Do you want your child's special birthday present? We offer children's birthday parties with special guided tours and afternoon tea for the group; to 10 children between the ages of 6 and 11 in a group. 

Subscription 

Subscriptions is a good idea if you are planning to make visits to the zoo a few years. More information service counters. 

Regular donations 

Basel Zoo is a nonprofit public limited company. In the partnership, funding and relies on Legacy thoroughly. Your visit and use our services support Basel Zoo. You can also book a guided tour, a party in the zoo restaurant or adopting an animal support. 

Friends of the Zoo - History Today 

Association of Friends of the Basel Zoological Garden was founded in 1919. This software grants provided by the zoo, for example to improve the construction and landscaping, for educational purposes, or bringing special publications. Users also have various activities, for example as a volunteer on board "Infomobile", brochure by mail, or by acting as Stewards on Sundays and public holidays. 

Users can send interesting and informative "Basel Zoo Magazine" twice a year. They participate in special guided tours and visiting other zoos. Membership also offers opportunities to communicate with like-minded individuals who support the practice of nature conservation worldwide. Join friends if you want to actively support the Basel Zoo

Mengda Heavenly Lake Nature Reserve Most Popular and Exotic Attarctions In Tibet

Tour to Xunhua-Lijiaxia and Xining

Drive along the Yellow River to Mengda Heavenly Lake Nature Reserve, famed as “Highland Xishuangbanna in Qinghai”. The nature reserve, centered around the mountaintop Heavenly Lake (Tianchi) has forests of virgin trees, a large variety of exotic flowers and many wild animals. Jishixia Gorge is mysterious with its winding roads and towering mountains on both sides. It is a flourishing area of natural beauty, contrasting sharply with the great swathes of sterile land that cover Qinghai Province.

Mengda Nature Reserve is very popular with hikers who are looking for something slightly different to the norm. The climate is wet and mild, which ensure that the countryside stays lush and green year round, making for lovely scenery. Located around 110km southeast of Xining in the Xunhua Sala Autonomous Prefecture, the Mengda Nature Reserve (Mengda ziran baohuqu) is a flourishing areaMengda Nature Reserve,xining of natural beauty, contrasting sharply with the great swathes of sterile land that cover Qinghai Province. The reserve, centered around the mountaintop Heavenly Lake (Tianchi) has forests of virgin trees, a large variety of exotic flowers and many wild animals, that make it good for hiking and boating.

N recent years the reserve has become a bit more popular on the tourist trail and so has not such a peaceful atmosphere as it once harboured. It is still possible to enjoy the place, however, protected as it is from mass tourism by its remote location. You can ride a horse from the foot of the mountain which will take you on a three hour round trip via the top (not counting getting off to boat, hike or do other activities).

Kanbula National Forest Park In Xining Tourism

 Drive westwards along Yellow River, today’s highlight is the visit to Kanbula National Forest Park in Jianzha County, Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, situated about 131km away from Xining, the Kanbula National Forest Park faces the Yellow River and is close to Lijiaxia Hydropower Station. The park is featured with its stone peaks of Danxia landform (Danxia landform is named after Danxia Mountain situated in the border area of Renhua and Qujiang counties, the northeast environs of Shaoguan City, Guangdong Province.), forests and man-made sight. It is a "historical documentary" of the evolvement of the rise of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and its climate, carrying a precious value of research on west China's environment evolvement since Cenozoic. Proceed to Xining, the capital of Qinghai province, located on the eastern edge of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Taste some Xining flavored snacks in night market.

Xining is the capital of Qinghai Province, People's Republic of China. Xining is located on the eastern edge of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the upper reaches of Huangshui river. It is the political, economic, scientific and technological, cultural and traffic center of Qinghai Province with an average altitude of over 2,200 meters (about 7,217 feet). The activities of human beings in this region can be traced to 2,100 years ago. During the Western and Eastern Han Dynasties, owing to its developing agriculture, Xining was paid more attention due to its economic and martial significance. As well as being the important hinge between the central plains and the western part of China in ancient time, Xining was the most common passing channel of the famous silk road.

Dongguan Mosque

Xining has a history of over 2100 years and was a chief commercial hub on the hexi corridor caravan route to Tibet, handling especially timber, wool and salt in ancient times. The trade along the Hexi Corridor was part of a larger trade corridor along the Northern Silk Road, whose use was intensified in the first century BC after efforts by the Han Dynasty to control this route.

Under the Han dynasty (206 BC–AD 220) a county there called Linqiang controlled the local Qiang tribesmen. It was again a frontier county under the Sui (581–618) and Tang (618–907) dynasties; during the 7th and early 8th centuries it was a center of constant warfare with the Tuyuhun and (later) the Tibetan peoples. In 763 it was overrun by the Tibetans and while under Tibetan control was known to the Chinese as Qingtangcheng. Recovered by the song dynasty in 1104, it received the name Xining (meaning "peace in the west") and has been the seat of a prefecture or superior prefecture under that name since that time. With the rise of Tibetan Buddhism (Lamaism), which began in the 7th century AD, Xining became an important religious center; Qinghai's largest lamasery, a holy place to the Yellow Hat sect of Buddhists, was located at Kunbum, some 19 km to the southeast.

Labrang Monastery and Xunhua Salar Autonomous County Most Popular Attractions Visit Tibet

They haveVisit Labrang Monastery, one of the six most important Gelukpa (the Yellow Sect) monasteries in whole Tibet and a center of Tibetan learning in Eastern Tibet. Our Tibetan guide will show you the impressive interior of the Assembly hall and other temples. Cross over Ganjia Grassland dotted with temples, pass by the Former Residence of the 10th Panchen Lama, stretch to Xunhua Salar Autonomous County inhabiting Salas. their own national spoken language, but no written language.

Labrang Monastery

Their ancestors were a branch of the Saruks who lived in the 13th century, belonging to the west Turki Oguz tribe in Samarkand. A chieftain named Kharmang led the clan men believing in Islam eastwards to Xunhua, Qinghai, and settled down there and lived and intermarried with the local Tibetans and Hans and multiplied, and becoming an ethnic group. The Salas are mainly engaged in farming and take animal husbandry and gardening as sideline industries. They have preserved much beautiful folklore. Duiwina (camel game), a traditional game showing how their ancestors came to Xunhua from central Asia, is very popular among the Salas.

In the inner courtyard of the medical college at Labrang Monastery the visitor will find nineteen murals, none of which have been previously analysed and described. With the help of an 'unfolded tree' (sdong vgrems) metaphor they illustrate the content of the Rgyud bzhi, the major classical text of Tibetan Medicine, thus providing a vivid visual structure to the contents of the book. The murals were photo-documented by myself in 2004 and 2005, however, they now appear to have been repainted similarly, but less elaborately in the meantime.

Qingshuihedong Mosque,Xunhua Salar Autonomous Country

Qingshuihedong Mosque in Xunhua Salar Autonomous County

Some of the Labrang murals depict the contents of the Rgyud bzhi in exact detail, whereas others are less circumstantial. In some cases the illustrations show divergences. A preliminary comparison of the Labrang murals with the illustrations attached to the famous commentary on the Rgyud bzhi by SANGS RGYAS RGYA MTSHO, the Vaidurya sngon po (Blue Beryl), reveals a whole string of significant and often complementary differences. These divergences raise questions about the doctrinal traditions that influenced the murals at Labrang. Are these differences evidence of certain regional characteristics or are they based on another text-tradition?

Jiezi Mosque

Salar woman

Linxia Hui Nationality Autonomous Prefecture Small Mecca of China

Linxia Hui Nationality Autonomous Prefecture known as “Small Mecca of China”, with many Mosques along the roadside. Pay a visit to Linxia Mosque. Passing through Tumen Pass, the obvious dividing line of Gansu temperature and the intercommunion of Chinese Muslim culture and Tibetan Buddhism cultures, reach Labrang Monastery. Linxia City has over 80 mosques,  built in a variety of architectural styles. There are also a number of gongbei shrines centered around graves of Sufi masters.

Hua Si Gongbei (Ma Laichi's mausoleum)

The possible origins of Monguor (Tu) people in Tongren County, Rma lho Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, are discussed in the context of a ritual winter exorcism in Gnyan thog Village, Qinghai Province. Bang rituals and the possible origins of wutu, an exorcist winter ritual, are described, as well as the ritual as it occurs in Gnyan thog Village, Tongren County. For comparative purposes, a similar ritual is described in the nearby area of Rdo sbis, Xunhua County.

Hanjia Mosque

Gnyan thog (Nianduhu æ@ð) Village, Gnyan thog Township, Tongren County |_;, Rma lho (Huangnan |Ç) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, is located in the east-central part of Qinghai Province, situated in northwest China. West of the Rong bo River, the village is home to 250 families and has a total population of approximately 1,500. Gnyan thog residents are officially classified as Tu (Monguor), a non-Islamic Mongolic people numbering 190,000. They live primarily in Qinghai and Gansu 1Â provinces. CHEN’s (1986a) “Baoan” ˜H linguistic study lists informants as being “Monguor” and from the villages of Gnyan thog, Tho rgya bod skor (Baoan Xiazhuang ˜H49), Ska gsar (Gashari), and Sgo dmar (Guomari »8Õ), all located in Tongren County. ÜJIYEDIIN (1994) utilizes material from the same sources in an English-language monograph entitled “Introduction, Grammar, and Sample Sentences for Baoan.” Gansu Province is where the great majority of China’s 12,000 citizens officially classified as “Baoan” dwell.

Ershe-Mosque

Further complicating matters, those classified as Monguor living in nearby Wutun G¬ speak a creole (CHEN 1986a) that is virtually incomprehensible to Gnyan thog residents. Additionally, Zhu Yongzhong, who is a
Monguor native of Minhe County, understood little of the Gnyan thog language while in the village collecting and filming materials for this paper. Gnyan thog residents’ language has many affinities with Mongol and
Tibetan, and has more lexical terms in common with these languages than with Chinese. These taxonomic conundrums illustrate the complex ethnic circumstances of many eastern Qinghai communities.

Laohua Mosque

This paper provides a detailed description of the wutu ritual performed on 30 December 1996.2 Specifically, we discuss the various explanations of the origin of Gnyan thog residents, provide an account of the origin of
Gnyan thog Castle, describe ritual sacrifices to local mountain gods, describe wutu ritual, and conclude by summarizing a similar ritual in a nearby Tibetan area.

Suoma Mosque

By the late 1872, the Qing armies lead by general Zuo Zongtang had destroyed the Hui  rebels in the regions to the east of Hezhou (Shaanxi  and Ningxia), and reached the Tao River, separating the today's Linxia Prefecture from its eastern neighbor, Dingxi  to the east. Zuo's attempts to gain a foothold west of the Tao River were stymied by Ma Zhan'ao's Muslim fighters. But Ma realized that he could not hold against the Qing armies forever, and in early 1873 he sent his son, who was soon to become known as Ma Anliang, to Zuo's headquarters in Anding to negotiate switching sides.

Nanguan Mosque

Pursuant to the agreement, Ma Zhan'ao surrendered Hezhou to the government forces, executed those locals who objected to the surrender, and joined the government side himself, to fight against the rebels farther west. In exchange, Zuo Zontang treated the Hezhou Muslim community much better than he had the people of Ma Hualong's Jinjipu, or than he would treat the defenders of Suzhou later this year. The Hezhou Muslims were spared a massacre or a relocation to a remote region; instead, in a unique gesture during that war, Zuo acted to reduce the inter-communal tension by relocating some of the local Han people away from the Muslims.[16]  Nonetheless, in order to ensure the government's control over the region, the Muslims were prohibited to live within the city walls of Hezhou.

Zhongshan Bridge of Lanzhou The Beautiful Landscape In Nigh

Zhongshan Bridge The bridge would need to undergo a costly renovation projects in the spring in order to the bridge to continue to serve the people. Finally in year 1909, the floating bridge was retired and replaced by an iron bridge. This bridge was renamed as Zhongshan Bridge in year 1942 in order to commemorate Dr. Sun Yat-sen. Anyway, the servicing life of this iron bridge had come to the end in year 1989 and during this time, it was no more the only bridge that built across Yellow River. However, no one can replace its great value in the development history as well as its great contribution to the society throughout the 80 years of servicing period. Nowadays, the bridge is known for a tourist spot which allows people to recall the history of that period.

Yellow River Iron Bridge, or Zhongshan Bridge of Lanzhou, which is 233.5-meter-long and 8.36-meter-wide, was built from 1907 to 1909. It is located near the the White Pagoda Hill. As the first real bridge and the bridge with longest history striding above the Yellow River in Lanzhou, it was originally named Yellow River Bridge.

The Zhongshan Bridge is the symbol of Lanzhou City for its majestic looks and uniqueness. The bridge was first built under the reign of the Ming Dynasty. The Qing rulers expanded and reconstructed the bridge to its current size and style at the cost of huge funds.

Waterwheel Park Invented by Duan Xu in The Ming Dynasty Most Popular China Tour

Waterwheel Park, the unique-shaped Water Wheel has a long history and the first reference to it appeared in the Ming Dynasty. Lanzhou is the only city through which the Yellow River flows; there are thus many irrigation machines in the city. The waterwheel invented by Duan Xu in the Ming Dynasty (1368 - 1644) is the oldest one. Duan Xu learnt from the irrigation machines in Yunnan Province and invented a distinctive style with the appearance of chariot wheels and a diameter ranging from 10 to 20 meters (32.8 to 65.6 feet). Until 1952, about 252 waterwheels stood along the river in Lanzhou, and at that time, the city was reputed to be the "City of Waterwheels."

It is an ancient irrigation device that uses flowing or falling water to create power by means of a set of paddles mounted around a wheel. The force of the water moved the paddles, and the consequent rotation of the wheel is transmitted to machinery via the shaft of the wheel.

In the garden, two huge waterwheels with striking appearances stand uprightly on the south bank of the Yellow River. They are modeled on the antique waterwheel, having quadrate buckets and a diameter of 16.5 meters (54.1 feet). In high water periods, they are driven by flowing water from the river; in low water periods, they are driven by water gathered by cofferdam. Owing to the two waterwheels and an advantaged position, the Waterwheel Teahouse attracts a lot of tourists.

Yellow River Legendary Xia Dynasty Adventure Tourism and Beautiful Landscape

The Yellow River basin has been part of China virtually since the inception of the Chinese nation. Designated as “the cradle of Chinese Civilization,” the basin has played a key role not only in the country’s economic development but also in the historic and cultural identity of the Chinese people. Perhaps, ironically, the Yellow River is also known as “China’s Sorrow,” because the soils which have fostered human development are also associated with frequent, sometimes catastrophic, floods. The devastation brought by these floods, often at scales unimaginable in the West, makes it easy to understand why successive Chinese administrations from the legendary Xia Dynasty (ca. 2000 B.C.) through the 20th century made flood control the number one priority of Yellow River management.

While the possibility of flooding is ever present and remains a key issue in basin management, major achievements have been made in flood control since the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. As a result of this success and the rapid economic and social changes which have taken place over the past few decades, new issues such as water scarcity, overuse of resources and environmental degradation are now rising to the top position of the water management agenda. In essence, a transition in river management is now taking place in which focus is shifting from prevention of the river doing harm to people to preventing people from doing harm to the river.

Significant institutional, policy and legal reforms are required to successfully bring about such a fundamental transition in a river management system that has evolved over two millennia. This report has been produced
as a background to assist researchers and policy makers in informing the debate surrounding that reform. The report is divided into three primary sections. The first discusses the background to the Yellow River basin and
its management including the basic geography of the basin, the role of the basin in Chinese history, and the historic development of basin water resources management and water resources.

The second discusses the key critical issues now being faced by basin residents and managers, including water scarcity, flood control, and land and other environmental degradation. The report concludes with some
reflections on promising areas for future research and analysis, including intersectoral allocation,
water saving, pollution abatement, data issues and institutional gaps.

Physical Geography
Most descriptions of the Yellow River’s geography commence with a recitation of facts. For example, the Yellow River begins in the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau of Qinghai province from whence it flows across 8 other provinces and autonomous regions before emptying into the Yellow Sea north of the Shandong peninsula. With a length of over 5,400 km, the Yellow River is the second longest in China and the 10th longest in the world and drains an area larger than France.

The basin contains approximately 9 percent of China’s population and 17 percent of its agricultural area. While such static figures may be of passing interest, it is a deeper understanding of variation in the Yellow River basin’s physical geography that is  necessary if one wishes to understand the issues which both the Chinese government and basin residents face in their daily efforts to use, manage and protect the river. To accomplish this formidable task, the river is often divided into its three main reaches for analysis.

Potala Palace Liberation Army Of Tibet Most Popular Lasha Tourism

Is it necessary to describe Potala Palace? This great piece of architecture, like a thousand beams of light illuminating the ancient city of Lhasa, is seen as the symbol of Tibet by people throughout the world. Straddling the peak of Marpo Ri at the center of the Lhasa Valley, whether by its appearance or in the eye of the beholder, it holds an irresistible attraction.At the beginning of the 20th century, an English correspondent who entered the rooftop of the world with armed troops invading Tibet, on seeing Potala Palace from a distance “like flames shining brilliantly under the sun,” sighed with emotion, “This is not a palace sitting on top of a mountain; it is a mountain of a palace.”

 The history of Potala Palace extends over a millennia. One thousand three hundred years ago, Potala Palace had already taken on its citadel shape during the period of Tibetan King Songtsen Gampo. In 1642, the Fifth Dalai Lama established the Ganden Phodang authority and unified the country, becoming the highest religious and secular leader in all of Tibet. Another of his great achievements was to build the Potala Palace on the site where (according to Buddhist sutras) Avalokites ´vara preached his sermons. Since then, the magnificent Potala has been the political and religious center of Tibetan theocracy, and its sacred status lasted until 1959.

Once upon a time this song was written and became popular among Tibetans:
On the golden roof of the Potala, rises the golden sun It is not the golden sun, but the precious face of the Lama On the slopes of the Potala, starts the sound of the golden oboe It is not the sound of the golden oboe, but the voice of the Lama chanting At the foot of the Potala, multi-hued khatak are fluttering They are notmulti-hued khatak, but the robes of the Lama.

It is obvious to everyone that the Lama glorified in the song is none other than the Dalai Lama, for Tibetans the embodiment of Avalokites´vara,worshipped by Tibetans living in the snow land. But then, 1959 arrived. Late in the night of March 17, the Dalai Lama was forced to escape fromanother of his palaces, the Norbulingka. Two days later, in themidst of unprecedented shelling of Lhasa, the Norbulingka and Potala Palace were turned into killing fields, silent witnesses to this earthshaking event in Tibetan history.A soldier fromthe People’s Liberation Army (PLA) who took part in“pacifying armed rebels in Tibet” recalls that the PLA’s 308th Artillery Regiment,which had been stationed for years at the foot of Bumpa Ri on the far bank of the Lhasa River, had long been targeting several howitzers at Potala Palace.

So finally, during the “pacification of the rebellion,” every single shell was shot precisely through the red-framed windows edged in black and exploded inside the palace. Yet a one-time “rebellious villain” of that era recalls that they gave up on their resistance because they could just no longer bear those demon-like shells damaging the Potala. Therefore, in some surviving photos and documentaries we can see “rebellious villains”walking down fromthe smoke-blackened Potala, holding white khatak above them, to surrender their weapons to the Liberation Army who was “liberating”Tibet. (Actually, this scene was filmed after the “pacifying rebellion”; those captives who weremarched back to the Potala to reenact the scene were then all thrown in jail.)

  
Potala Palace has been an empty building since then. In the years that followed, the Potala was no longer the
center of Lhasa; it has been turned into a backdrop by the occupiers of each period and for each situation. It is a backdrop of unlimited interest, a must-have backdrop, but also a backdrop that is a mystery to people. The Potala has never been, with the changing of time and space, so colorful, so odd, and even so helpless and sad, as it has been during this last half century.

Sera Monastery In History Lasha Tibet

I resided at Sera monastery for a total of about 20 months from 2003-2006. From 2004 onwards I had a basic enough understanding of Tibetan to know what was going on. My teacher was selected by HHDL to serve as Abbot and held that position for 10 years, partly because of his ability to handle the Shugden issue.

At first, the Sera monastery administration tried a "live and let live approach", where the Shugden monks could do prayers in Pomra khangtsen but those of us who didn't want to participate didn't have to. And during the kangso pujas very few monks attended unless they were financially destitute and needed the money. I would say there were only about 90-120 monks who sincerely believed in the practice, out of a khangtsen of at least 400. Things came to a head because the Shugden supporters pushed the issue, handing out copies of the prayer to all monks during pujas and pressuring them to recite. Hanging large Shugden thangkhas in the khangtsen, and fining those Pomra monks who did not attend puja.

Because of this situation, my teacher and the administration at Sera Mey felt they had no choice but to draft the oath for monks to sign. But this was after extensive discussion with HHDL and patiently waiting to see if the Shugden people would lighten up. After they tied up a visiting Dharamsala politician to a chair, the situation was sealed. Khen Rinpochey felt Shugden had to be controlled into the monastery, for the future of the lineage. I doubt any of the protestors have visited the monasteries of South India in the past ten years so really the information they are receiving is not first hand, but rather hearsay. It is simply an opportunity, I feel, for those who have grudges against His Holiness the Dalai Lama to try to damage his image.

Leading up the oath circulated against Shugden at Sera Mey there were also several other important developments. One was that my teacher, then abbot of Sera Mey, received threats to his personal safety when he tried to bring the situation under control by having the monks at least not try to promote Shugden openly. This is well documented and HH Dalai Lama mentioned it himself at the Kalachakra I attended in 2004 in Toronto.

The khangtsen was also being torn apart by the dispute because a new shrine hall was being built and the Shugden elements wanted a protector chapel in the back, and planned on ordering large statues. This further aggravated the situation. Once again, not from the side of the abbot and HHDL's supporters, but from the Shugden side who kept trying to push the issue. The harmony of such a large monastery (Jey and Mey combined form Sera, which has about 5,000 monks) is essential and the Shugden situation was becoming out of control. Not only were threats being made but there were arguments between monks and a deep feeling of disharmony.

In addition, some of those practicing Shugden were even attending high tantra initiations with HHDL despite the fact that HH stated that to do so would harm the lineage, his life etc... In short, they were taking HHDL as vajra master but deciding not to follow his direction in practice. When I asked one monk whom I knew supported Shugden why he was attending an initiation HH was granting in India, he told me to shut up and mind my own business. I was later warned by friends to be less open about my disapproval for such matters
because people had been previously physically harmed.

So, that is pretty much all the information I have to share. Of course it is my experience and the experience of my teacher. But, because I stayed at Sera for a reasonable period and speak decent colloquial Tibetan, I feel I am better qualified to inform people about what is going on rather than NKT cadres who have never set foot in India. I doubt even GKG has been there in the past decade.

Drepung Monastery History Most Popular Attractions In Lhasa Tibet

Sightsee of the Drepung Monastery, Sera Monastery and Norbulingka in Lhasa. Drepung Monastery, the largest and richest monastery in Tibet, was founded in 1416 by a disciple of Tsong Khapa under the patronage of a noble family and later enlarged by the Fifth Dalai Lama. Nowadays it stands as Tibet’s most important and largest monastic university in Tibet.

Drepung Monastery It was founded in 1416 by Jamyang Choge Tashi Palden (1397–1449), one of Tsongkhapa's main disciples, and it was named after the sacred abode in South India of Shridhanyakataka.  Drepung was the principal seat of the Gelugpa school and it retained the premier place amongst the four great Gelugpa monasteries. The Ganden Podang (dga´ ldan pho brang) in Drepung was the residence of the Dalai Lamas until the Great Fifth Dalai Lama constructed the Potala.Drepung was known for the high standards of its academic study, and was called the Nalanda of Tibet, a reference to the great Buddhist monastic university of India.

Old records show that there were two centres of power in Drepung: the so-called lower chamber (Zimkhang 'og ma)  associated with the Dalai Lamas-to-be, and the upper chamber (Zimkhang gong ma) associated with the descendants of Sonam Drakpa, an illustrious teacher who died in 1554. The estate of the Dalai Lamas at Drepung monastery, called Ganden Phodrang, had been constructed in 1518 by Gendun Gyatso Palzangpo (1476–1541), retrospectively named and counted as 2nd Dalai Lama.

Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center attributes the following Name variants to Penchen Sönam Drakpa: "bsod nams grags pa [ primaryName ], paN chen bsod nams grags pa [ title ], khri 15 bsod nams grags pa [ primaryTitle ], rtses thang paN chen bsod nams grags pa [ title ], gzims khang gong ma 01 bsod nams grags pa [ title ], this last one referring to the Seat of the Upper Chamber established in 1554. According to tbrc his successors referring to the estate of the Zimkhang Gongma were Sonam Yeshe Wangpo (1556–92),  Sonam Gelek Palzang (1594–1615) and Tulku Dragpa Gyaltsen (1619–1656) - closely connected to the famous story of Dorje Shugden. (Some say that Drakpa Gyeltsen was Sönam Drakpa’s second reincarnation,  but usually he is considered to be the 4th incarnation of Panchen Sonam Dragpa .

Drepung MonasteryOn September 27, 1987, about 20 Drepung monks unfurled banners and the Tibetan flag and marched around the Barkhor in Lhasa, before being arrested in front of the Tibetan Autonomous Region Government Headquarters.

Norbulingka Park UNESCO World Heritage Site In Tibet

Norbulingka Park (Treasure Garden) was built in the 1740s during the reign of the seventh Dalai Lama. Later it was renovated and enlarged and became the Dalai Lama’s Summer Palace. Norbulingka (literally: "The Jewelled Park") is a palace and surrounding park in Lhasa, Tibet, built from 1755.[1]  It served as the traditional summer residence of the successive Dalai Lamas from the 1780s up until the 14th Dalai Lama's self-exile in 1959. Part of the "Historic Ensemble of the Potala Palace", Norbulingka is recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and was added as an extension of this Historic Ensemble in 2001.  It was built by the 7th Dalai Lama and served both as administrative centre and religious centre. It is a unique representation of Tibetan palace architecture.

The Norbulingka park situated at an elevation of 3,650 metres (11,980 ft) boasted of flower gardens of Roses, petunias, hollyhocks, marigolds, chrysanthemums and rows of herbs in pots and rare plants. Fruit trees of apple, peach and apricot were also reported (but the fruits did not ripen in Lhasa) and also poplar trees and bamboo. In its heyday, the Norbulingka grounds also witnessed wild life in the form of peacocks and Brahminy ducks in the lakes. The park was so large and well laid out that cycling around the area was even permitted to enjoy the beauty of the environment.  The gardens are a favourite picnic spot and provides a beautiful venue for theatre, dancing and festivals, particularly the Shodun or 'Yoghurt Festival', at the beginning of August, with families camping in the grounds for days surrounded by colourful makeshift windbreaks of rugs and scarves and enjoying the height of summer weather.

Norbulingka Palace of the Dalai Lamas was built about 100 years after the Potala Palace was built on the Parkori peak, over a 36 hectares (89 acres) land area. It was built a little away to the west of the Potala for the exclusive use by the Dalai Lama for stay during the summer months. Tenzing Gyatso, the present 14th Dalai Lama in the order stayed here before he fled to India.[8]  The building of the palace and the park was undertaken by the 7th Dalai Lama from 1755. The Norbulingka Park and Summer Palace were completed in 1783 under Jampel Gyatso, the 8th Dalai Lama, on the outskirts of Lhasa.[9and became the summer residence during the reign of the Eighth Dalai Lama.

Kelsang Potrang, named after the Seventh Dalai Lama, is a three-storey palace with halls for worshipping Buddha, bedrooms, reading rooms and sanctuaries. Tsokyil Potrang, when the Eighth Dalai Lama was in power, is considered to be the most attractive in Norbulingka. Khamsum Zilnon built during that time is really a striking pavilion of the Han architecture style, where Dalai Lamas enjoyed Tibetan opera. In 1922, a wealthy benefactor had Golden Linka and Chensel Potrang constructed for the Thirteenth Dalai Lama. Meanwhile, a lot of flowers, grass and trees were planted. In 1954, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama built Takten Migyur Potrang, which is also called the New Summer Palace, means 'Eternal Palace' in Tibetan. The architecture has combined the characteristics of temple and villa and is more magnificent than other palaces. The exquisite murals in the palace are well worth a mention and visit.

Black Dragon Pool Stunning Secenery Tempel In Lijiang

Black Dragon Pool is divided into two parts by a stone bridge. The color of the water in the south pool is green and the north yellow. Although the water of these two parts meets each other, fish in one pool never visits the other one. There are two Taoist temples in Black Dragon Pool; the lower one is Black Dragon Palace and the upper Longquan Temple. Near the Black Dragon Pool is the Black Dragon Palace, which was built in 1394 (in the reign of Emperor Hongwu of the Ming Dynasty) and rebuilt in 1454 (in the reign of Emperor Jingtai of the Ming Dynasty).

The whole palace consists of three halls and two courtyards, and the main hall features a stone plaque written by the governor of Yunnan in the Qing Dynasty to praise the views here. The Black Dragon Palace is also called the Lower Temple, because when you walk along the stone steps, you come directly to the Upper Temple - the Dragon Fountain Temple - which is hidden among ancient trees. This 570-year-old temple includes Thunder Deity Hall, North Pole Hall, Sanqing Hall, Jade Emperor Hall and some other halls in which the deities of Taoism are worshiped.

The Dragon Fountain Temple is the largest Taoist temple in southern China. Two important building complexes in the Black Dragon Pool are the Longquan Temple (Dragon Spring Temple) and Black Dragon Palace. Longquan Temple, the largest structure in the park, was built along the pool during the early Han Dynasty. The temple was enlarged and reconstructed several times throughout subsequent dynasties. Most of the buildings visitors see today were completed during the Qing Dynasty. The Black Dragon Palace is at the bank of the pool, which is where memorial ceremonies were once held. This palace was built during the Ming Dynasty, around 700 years ago. It consists of three halls and two courtyards.

The Ming Dynasty was overthrown by the Qing Dynasty in Chinese history, and the potentates of the Qing were all from a minority ethnic group called 'Manchu'. When the Manchu marched into the Chinese mainland and became the rulers, many people killed themselves to show their loyalty to the Ming Dynasty, including a scholar named Xue Erwang and his whole family. They drowned themselves, and the tomb of these loyalists is located beside the Black Dragon Pool.

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