Lhasa Free Tour - The largest royal garden in Tibetan areas looks like this

Norbulingka was built in the 1740s (Dalai VII), is the place where successive Dalai Lamas spent their summers and governed, is a typical Tibetan style garden.

✅ Norbulingka is divided into three areas, namely the former Park in the east, the Core Palace area in the middle and the Golden Ringka area in the west.

1️⃣ Qianyuan Garden: There are rare flowers and grasses from the southern and northern foothills of the Himalayas, as well as rare flowers transplanted from the mainland or introduced from abroad, called the plateau botanical garden.

2️⃣ Core palace area: There are several groups of main architectural buildings such as Gesang Po Zhang, Dadan Mingjiu Po Zhang, Zhuzengpo Zhang, which is the core garden landscape area.

3️⃣ Golden Linka Area: There are golden Po chapter, zoo, flower corridor, all kinds of plants, etc., with natural jungle wild interest as the characteristics.

🌟 Visit to Norbulingka, focusing on the core palace area of Phuzhang complex, as well as the palace's cultural relics, thangka, murals. Each group of buildings is divided into three main parts: palace district, palace district and forest district.

📌 Golden Linka area is far away, limited time friends can give up, go to the inside of the need to return to the east gate, a little far. The zoo requires an additional ticket of 20 yuan, so there is no need to go in.

👣 Tour route: East Gate → Kelsang Po Chapter → East and West Dragon King Hall → Junzeng Po Chapter → Dadan Mingjiu Po Chapter → Gesandji Po Chapter → Golden Po Chapter → East Gate exit, about 1.5 hours.

📌 It is recommended to visit Norbulingka and Tibet Museum together, half a day is enough. If you're pressed for time, you can forgo Roebling.

🕒 Opening hours: 9:30-17:00, tickets will be closed at 17:20, the park will be closed at 18:00, it will change in different seasons.

🎫 Ticket: Adult ticket 60 yuan/person, can be booked 10 days in advance. "Winter tour of Tibet" during the free admission, national holidays tickets half price.

📱 Tour guide: Beidou navigator can be rented at the ticket office, 30 yuan, there are key attractions of Roblinka explanation.

Norbulingka Zoo

Norbulingka Zoo, also known as Lhasa Zoo. It is one of the highest zoos in the world and almost as old as Norbulingka, originally a breeding farm in Norbulingka, which was built during the seven years of the Seventh Dalai Lama's reign (1768), more than 250 years ago.

The zoo is allowed to feed visitors, the local people always bring apples and bananas to feed the small animals to eat, there is also popcorn sold at the door, many animals love to eat popcorn.

There is an "unruly" emu (er miao) in the zoo, and when you enter the door, you can see it strolling leisurely. It went to the door of the ostrich to say hello, and then wandered to the door of the camel to grab snacks.

Alpaca in my opinion is a very cute existence, it also has an alias called "grass mud horse", which sounds very interesting. But alpaca personality timid timid, afraid of loneliness, usually three or five play together, if long-term alone life, is likely to become unhappy.

I heard alpacas spit when they're angry, which is even cuter. If you deliberately put food in front of him and don't give it to him, he may spit on you. "People do not attack me, I do not commit crimes", alpacas generally do not take the initiative to attack humans, so it is best not to provoke them.

The ostrich looked at such a tall one, a lonely and proud appearance, at first I did not dare to approach them easily, but they are actually very gentle, walking posture is also very elegant.

Whenever someone passes their own door, especially when they see tourists with popcorn, they will always warmly welcome them, and then bury their heads in the popcorn and eat it seriously, which is a tacit understanding between the ostrich and the tourists.