A Grand Hotel Near Mountain Kailash

Under the foot of the holy  Mountain Kailash in Nagri Prefecture, northwestern Tibet, there are several mud-brick buildings beside a small bus stop, with a visible signboard named "Chengdu Grand Hotel". Chengdu is the capital of Sichuan province, east to Tibet. Judging from the name of the hotel, it is must be opened by Sichuanese who can be found , in any difficult place in Tibet, you may always find them.

This "Grand Hotel" offers the simplest services in the world, but it might be listed as a high-end hotel in this remote area, with an average altitude of 4,500 meters and the worst living conditions in Tibet with the most frequent natural disasters.

Faced with severe natural conditions, the "Chengdu Grand Hotel" offers you ordinary dishes, daily necessities and simple accommodation in this sparsely populated land. The hostel owner has to transport commodities, vegetables and meat from places thousands of kilometers away. Therefore, its services can be compaired to those of any other luxury hotels in downtown  for the passing-by driver and travelers.

Ngari Prefecture, known as the roof of "the Roof of the World", is located in the western part of Tibet, and the center of the Changtang Plateau in the northern part of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Boasting many noted tourists attractions, such as the Zhada Clay Forest, Mt. Kailashi, the ruins of Guke Kingdom, Nagri is a place of numerous splendid landscapes, centuries-old history and typical culture.