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Glacier in Bujia Snow Mountain Travel Recommendations for 2024 (Updated in Jun)
Day 8 in the collection
January 8: Buga Snow Mountain, Glacier
Buga Snow Mountain (Glacier) is located in the Yuxiong natural village of Waduoga village (Three Villages), Rongbu Town. To the southeast of the snow mountain is the Buxiong Jiong Mountain rock and Gajiong Mountain Temple in Gangxing Township, Dingqing County; to the northeast is the Yongcuo Temple, to the west is Gexia Gang and Lazha Temple in Ya'an Town, Baqing County, and to the southwest is Rongbu Town in Suoxian County, and Xichang Township and Redeng Temple. The snow mountain is about 6328 meters above sea level and is one of the seven sacred mountains of Tibet.
On January 12, 2016, the China Geographical Landscape Great Discovery scientific expedition team discovered five fully developed giant hanging glaciers on Buga Snow Mountain at the junction of Dingqing, Baqing, and Suoxian counties in Changdu City, Tibet. The longest of these hanging glaciers stretches from the peak of Buga Snow Mountain to the moraine lake at an altitude of over 4200 meters, with a drop of more than 2100 meters. The Rongrong Glacier cascades down from the 6328-meter peak of Buga Snow Mountain, forming a hanging glacier body with a slope of about 70 degrees.
Today, we visited the Yuexiong Glacier and the Zuxuehui Glacier from the southern slope.
The off-the-beaten-path glacier you've never been to
🌟Highlight: A glacier that can be closely approached 4 hours away from Zizhu Temple in Naqu. Bujia Snow Mountain has developed seven or eight glaciers, which slowly spread down along the mountain gully. As the temperature rises in summer, the glacier flows downwards, cutting the mountain and bringing out mud and stones, turning the blue glacier into coffee color.
📍Detailed address: Two of the Bujia glaciers that have been opened are 20km apart, one is called Yoxiong (belonging to Baqing, navigation: Bujia Snow Mountain Glacier), and the other is called Qiongxiong (belonging to Suoxian, navigation: Bujia Glacier Qiongxiong Gou Scenic Area), tickets need to be purchased separately.
💕Qiongxiong Scenic Area has built wooden plank roads and parking lots, with fewer people, and the glacier is washed into a lotus shape which is more beautiful. There are many people in Yoxiong, and cars are parked randomly. There are beautiful alpine grassland scenery in front of both glaciers. The roads near the glaciers are all gravel roads.
💰Ticket: Yoxiong 25/person, 10/car. Qiongxiong 15/person, 0/car.
🗓Itinerary: Both glaciers can be visited within a day. It was drizzling on the glacier the day we went, which greatly reduced the scenery. Before arriving at Baqing Yaan Town, we took very beautiful and original photos of dusk smoke + felt room, but we still need light.
📝Note tips: The glacier is the earth's temperature regulator, we must definitely cherish the natural environment and protect animals and plants.
2024 Tibet North Ring Line: Step into the Bogda Glacier
Bujia Snow Mountain is the general term for a group of snow peaks in Dingqing, and Bogda Glacier is the most accessible among them.
The drive from Suo County to Bogda Glacier is 2.5 hours, and no one collects tickets in winter.
The glacier is 5 kilometers long, extending from an altitude of 6000 meters to 4200 meters, below is the moraine lake, with a width of about 150 meters, frozen in winter, conducive to walking close to the glacier tongue, and thawing into a green lake in summer.
Start walking from the parking lot, watch the full view of the glacier, go down to the ice lake, the snow is 5 to 10 centimeters deep, walk to the bottom of the glacier tongue in 30 minutes, and touch the magnificent glacier at zero distance!
The glacier seen from the opposite side of the ice lake is small, and when you get closer, you realize how insignificant humans are.
Unfortunately, the mountain road to the top of the glacier is frozen and cannot be walked on.
Retreat to the parking lot and head to Dingqing County, which takes nearly 4 hours.
The team leader's aerial photography is too cool!
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