Day 3 Xinduqiao - Litang - Daocheng - Shangri-la Village

Attractions: Choekhorling Monastery, Litang Town

Meal: Not Included

Hotel: Overnight in Riwa Village

Litang is boasting the Highest Town because of its sea level of 4014 meters. And it is important religious city in Tibetan plateau, Choekhorling Monastery, or we say Litang Monastery,is the oldest and largest Tibetan Buddhist yellow temple in Kham District. Changqinchun Kol Cole is translated into Tibetan.

By the way, the horse racing festival of Litang in August is regarded as the TOP 3 horse festivals in Tibetan plateau. In the afternoon you will arrive in Shangrila village, also called Riwa village. Riwa Village was renamed Shangri-La Town in 2001 with the approval of the Sichuan provincial government. Shangri-la means the sun and moon in the Tibetan language, and has become synonymous with the paradise in the novel Lost Horizon by British novelist James Hilton.