Mount Amnye Machen

The archaic Dun-Hung scriptures described Tibet is being situated centre of the earth with abundant source of rivers, snow capped mountains, a pure high land and well-equipped weather. It was thousand years ago that this place began to evolve mankind from monkeys and orangutans. There were nine deities at the first time of existence of the world and they were dwelling everywhere on the Tibetan plateau as are super mountain gods. Mount Amnye Machen or Machen Bomra is one of the nine and fourth son of eight of the father deity Ode Gonggyal and one of amazing the adventure trekkking package in Amdo.

The local mountain god Mount Amnye Machen is to be subsumed under Amdo of three major Tibet provinces. Which other two are U-tsang and Kham. Amdo or Do-med encompasses over one third of the Tibetan plateau and Mt. Amnye Machen is the one and only to impute to be the most sacred mountain in eastern Tibetan regions. It has an area size of 660 acre and has 13 peaks, of which the highest peak rises over 6082m above the sea level and the fifth Dalai Lama called it the Ever-white Peak. The rest of the peaks are equally raised over 4900 meters and snow capped all through out the year. The holy mountain Machen Bomra, thus belongs three hundred sixty genres of surrounding mountains. Which are dating back to thousand year with abundant of snow and glacier all over the years.

How to Get to Mount Amnye Machen

Nevertheless, Amnye Machen halfway trek is awesome and one can do a challenge him self for 4 days starting from the south part of the holy mountain and ends at Lower Tawu. To do this half trekking, one have to start his tour from Xining. If you don’t have a private car, you will have to catch a public bus Machen, the capital city of Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. The altitude there is above 4000m and can enjoy the different city with local nomad herders. Next morning, you will need to hire a car and head into Amnye Machen Mountain about 80kms. Where yo will start the half trek.

The nearest city from Mount Amnye Machen is Xining. It is about 438km from lower Tawu (the small town rest below the Amnye Machen mountain. Your full or half trek will end at lowe Tawu and Xining is the convenient city. That you might get out for and where you can catch a train or a flight to other cities of Mainland China. But recently Xining had Airport announced opened a direct airline between Xining and Bangkok.

Travel Tips for Amnye Machen trek

Mt. Amnye Machen full trek takes minimum 8 days with local nomads, yaks and horses support while a halfway kora trek takes 4 days to the last. Walking around Amnye Machen mountain gives a rightful landscape. For travellers and it is all about heading mountains like an adventure. The weather looks like rain-cloudy for few days and again show nice weather for the other few days. It seems so hard to do Amnye Machen trek during the raining days but it is so memorable when it is a clear sky with shining sun. Because, the environment, gigantic mountains, wild animals make one feel lucky and blessed.

Amnye Machen kora trek is not same like other trekking spots as it is much easy to rain and one can not cross rivers without horse, especially, during a raining day. It will be even colder in summer times and sometimes snow on the passes. Plan a trip to Amdo with us now.