Places to visit around Ganzi 甘孜
Dagei Gompa大金寺, Began Gompa, Beri Gompa白利寺
Monasteries around Ganzi are well off the beaten track and make a great day trip if you hire a taxi. We visited 3 monasteries within a 30 kilometre radius of Ganzi: Dagei Gompa, Began Gompa, or Baigei Si, and Beri Gompa, or Baili Si (all names are approximate).
Hire a taxi to see all three in a day
In order to do this, we hired a taxi for a half day for 250 Yuan. Our driver was a friendly chap who seemed to be of mixed Chinese- Tibetan origin and could speak both Mandarin (of sorts) and Tibetan. More importantly, he seemed to get on well with everybody.
Monasteries around Ganzi: Our first stop, Dagei Gompa
Our first stop, Dagei Gompa, is about 30 kilometres back towards Manigango. The landscape along the way is glorious: lots of grazing animals, imposing mountains and small villages, their houses and walls covered in vertical beige and white stripes.
Dagei is quite large, almost a monastic village. Hidden away above Continue reading “Monasteries around Ganzi”