Mount Cho Oyu is known as the sixth highest mountain in the world, at 8,201 metres above sea level. Cho Oyu means “Turquoise Goddess” in Tibetan.
Mount Shishapangma is renowned as the fourteenth-highest mountain in the world. The Shishapangma is located in south-central Tibet, 5 kilometers from the border with Nepal.
Peikutso Lake, located 40km to the east of Gyirong county and at an elevation of 4600 meters, is a beautiful alpine lake, with a water area over 300 square kilometers.
The well protected manor is located at the Banjorlhunbo Village on the southern bank of the Nagchu River at about 4 km to the south of the Gyantse County.
Pelkor Chode Monastery means “Auspicious Wheel Joy Monastery” in Tibetan language. It lies at the foot of the Dzong Hill to the west of Gyangze Town.
Gyantse Dzong or Gyantse Fortress in one of the best preserved dzongs (one kind of fortress) in Tibet. It stands high above the Gyantse City on a huge spur of grey brown rock.
Sakya Monastery is the center of the Sakya Sect. In Tibetan, the word Sagya means “gray soil” referring to the weathered gray earth on the Bonbori Hill where the monastery is located.
Located at the downstream of PumQu in Tingri county and Dinggye county, Garma valley, “the most beautiful valley in the world” is 55km from east to west and 8km from south to north, covering an area of 440km2.
Natang Monastery, built by monk Luojiazha in 1033, is 15 km away from Shigatse. It is not so magnificent as Tashilhunpo Monastery, yet 400 years older than it.