Midui Glacier, located at Yupu Town, Bome County in Nyingchi City,is a typical maritime glacier in Tibet as well as the lowest glacier in the world with its snow line no more than 4,694 meters high. As it’s merely 8 kilometers from China’s famous National Highway No. 318, Midui Galacier is readily accessible. The shiny and crystal glaciers, along with surrounding lakes, farmlands, forests and villages, makes visitors wonder they enter a fairyland.
Midui Glacier lies at the junction of Nyenchen Tanglha Mountains and Boshula Mountain, where monsoon maritime glaciers are mainly distributed. Southwest monsoon from the Indian Ocean comes through the
Yarlung Tsangpo River and Chayu River Valley and eventually brings a large amount of precipitation to this region. Then a magnificent glacier came into being around a snow peak behind Midui Village. The main peak of the glacier is around 6,800 meters (22,310 feet) above the sea level. The bottom part of Midui Glacier extends to mixed broad-leaved and coniferous forests. Looking from a distance, the holy glacier is like a fair lady wearing a silvery kerchief and green dress.
Midui Glacier features huge ice basins, frequent snow slides and wide icefalls. It originates from a lofty snow mountain. On the mountain top, there are two vast ice basins covered by abundant ice and snow. Once the ice basins become full, ice flows down from the mountain top to the basin beneath, forming magnificent ice falls with a maximum height of more than 792 meters and width of more than 1,006 meters. An avalanche can happen at any time, leaving upright avalanche chutes, as if they were cut by the axe of Nature.
Midui Village, with fertile farmland and dense forests around, is a small
Tibetan village at the foot of Midui Glacier. Villagers’ houses are built of wood logs. Every house has a courtyard decorated with tall trees and colorful prayer flags (also called wind-horse flags). One who enters the village would think they entered a forest park.
On October 23, 2005, a ranking list of the most beautiful places in
China was published. This activity, sponsored by Chinese National Geography Magzine, selected the top six gorgeous glaciers in
China, including Midui Glacier and Rongbuk Glacier in
Tibet, Tomur Glacier and Telamukanli Glacier in Xinjiang, Touming Mengke Glacier in Gansu, and the glaciers in Sichuan Trumpet Shell Valley.
Travel Tips
Add: Yupu Town, Bome County in Nyingchi City, Tibet of China
Entrance Fee: Cny 150 (included Horse-riding round-trip)
Opening Hours: 08:00-18:00
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