Kangding Travel Guide — the love-song town of the Sichuan-Tibet Highway - Mugecuo lakes, Paoma Mountain, the Xinduqiao photo corridor and the Gongga snow ridge
Kangding is the Tibetan gateway of western Sichuan - the capital of the Ganzi Prefecture, the town where the tea-horse road met the Sichuan-Tibet Highway (G318) and the birthplace of the folk song 'Kangding Love Song' that made its name around the world. At 2,600 m it is the first big plateau town after the Zheduo Pass (4,298 m), and everything beyond it - the Xinduqiao photography corridor, the Tagong grasslands, Mount Gongga's glacier valleys and the lakes of Mugecuo - fans out along one of China's great mountain roads. Most travellers spend two to four days here acclimatising, riding the Paoma cable car, boating Mugecuo and driving the golden loop to Xinduqiao and Tagong. This guide carries the ticket prices, bus fares, guesthouses and phones taken from the field guide, so you can plan it yourself or have our team arrange it end to end.
