Sichuan: Daocheng Yading—the Last Pure Land on the Blue Planet

70 days have past since I came back from Daocheng Yading, China’s southwestern Sichuan Province. Sometimes, I feel this journey is just like a dream. When I just waked up, I could not tell what is dream and what is reality. But in these days, I got to know it clearly — it was a dream, but a real existential dream. I began to recall the memory and write the dreamland in my heart.

The first time when I knew Daocheng Yading through a set of pictures on micro blog, I was shocked and never expected a place could be, just so beautiful. I still remember what I said at that time: I wanna conquer it! Later, I found many pictures and introduces about Daocheng Yading, but which impresses me most is the sentence: “Daocheng Yading, the last pure land on the blue planet.”

I have been wondering, how could it be so beautiful as to get such a description? The numerous pictures online or in magazine could not satisfy my imagination anymore, so I decided to go there, in person. Of all the Tibetan regions, where I have already been, never have I seen a prospect which is finer than that I find here

Daocheng Yading is located in the south of Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, far southeast of Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, under the administration of Sichuan Province. Daocheng is a Kham county blessed with a varied and beautiful landscape. Covering an area of 1,344 square kilometers, it is one of the best preserved and the most primeval alpine natural ecosystems in China.