The Sangke Grassland on the plateau is stunningly beautiful

After returning from Labrang Monastery to Xiahe County, I passed through the main street and remembered there was a 'Labrang Westland Grand Hotel'—I passed it on the way here, a five-story building with glass walls, looking quite fashionable. In fact, the county is not very large, with a population of less than 90,000. Once out of the county, the car headed west directly to Sangke Grassland, just in time to digest after a meal! This was a planned trip. The Sangke Grassland is only about a dozen kilometers away from Xiahe County. Although I was dozing off, I couldn't bear to miss the beautiful scenery outside the car window. What does 'embracing nature' mean? It starts with your eyes first! Outside the car window is the vast grassland, with the road extending into the distance through the middle of the large meadow. Looking around, the green grass is tinged with yellow, the season of harvest, and also the season for tourists to view the autumn. Some areas are already covered in yellow, the sections of the low slopes where the sunlight is best. The grassland is not flat; the terrain is undulating, mostly gentle slopes, so there is a sense of layering, or rather, a 'curvy' beauty. In the distance are rolling hills, with more mountains behind them, looking very far away, like on the horizon, connected with large clouds, giving an endless visual experience. In the grassland, dots of cattle and sheep are scattered—black dots, white dots, what a great pasture! No wonder people in Gansu like to eat beef noodles; the free-range environment here is good, the cattle must be in a good mood, and certainly robust! In no time, we arrived at a scenic spot in the vast Sangke Grassland, which covers an area of about 70 square kilometers and is said to have several attractions, including a wetland park. The scenic spot we passed through is actually the 'Tashi Grassland Happy Camp'. I hurried off the bus for a stroll. I like this environment, looking into the distance, seeing green, breathing the air with the most natural 'flavor', finding the space with the most sense of freedom. We also enjoyed free treatment. Actually, for the camp, it is more suitable for young people to 'check in'. Here, there are tents set up, wooden pavilions for resting and strolling, and an arched passageway—a tunnel shape, with colorful prayer flags and white hadas hanging all over the metal frame, which can be seen when passing by on the road, very beautiful and dazzling. Especially when the wind is strong that day, the prayer flag fabric is light and thin, all blown in one direction by the wind, neat and uniform. Walking through the arched corridor of prayer flags, I wrapped my head well, the colorful prayer flags around me rustled in the wind, and I couldn't miss the bright colors of the 'time-space tunnel' here, took photos, very beautiful—'Prayer Flag Tunnel'! The prayer flags in blue, white, red, green, and yellow are printed with Buddha's teachings and images, which is the most typical style of the Tibetan area, not for beautifying the environment, but for praying for blessings and disaster relief. Nearby stands a large stone monument over 4 meters high, with the front inscribed 'Sangke Grassland Altitude Three Thousand Meters', and the back: Sangke Grassland is 13 kilometers west of Xiahe County, Gannan State, part of the Dajutan Grassland in Sangke Township, surrounded by mountains, with a wide and flat highland grassland in the middle, famous in the northwest Tibetan area for its excellent pastures and for historically holding grand Tibetan Buddhist religious activities. We strolled in the grass, the dense little grasses not growing tall, but forming an endless green carpet, a vibrant scene that satisfied me. The vastness of the earth, the beauty of the plateau grassland, attracts more and more tourists to come for sightseeing. The main entertainment games set up here include: horse riding and archery. Especially horse riding, young people will basically go to experience it. The horse riding is not about letting the horses run on the grassland; I saw that there is always a horseman leading the horse slowly, with safety as the priority. The private pastures on the hills near the grassland have lush grass and dense colorful wildflowers in summer, quite beautiful. The driver told us that during the summer holidays, there are especially many people coming, and then you can join the crowd to dance the Guozhuang dance; on festival days, it's even more lively! I was thinking, if I lay flat on the grass at night, how many stars there must be in the night sky! The wind was strong that afternoon, the sky cloudy, the clouds thick, and even raindrops drifted by. We didn't stay long and continued on towards Hezuo!