Gannan travel 7-8 days suitable, Gannan best travel time is from June to August each year. The best starting place to visit Gannan is Lanzhou, which is the most reasonable in terms of transportation. As the largest transit point in Northwest China, Lanzhou is very convenient for trains, flights or cars, so it is a very good choice to start from Lanzhou.

Because of the special conditions in Gannan, the vast majority of hotels and mainland hotels of the same level compared to the hardware and software are slightly inferior. Gannan has a lot of unique Chinese, Tibetan and small restaurants, meals are generally light taste of Sichuan cuisine, traveling in remote areas sometimes need to bring road food or do their own cooking.

Gannan travel notes

1, Gannan altitude of 2800-3500 meters or so, thin air, less oxygen; strong solar radiation, long hours of sunshine, the temperature difference between day and night is large, the average annual temperature difference is relatively small; the average temperature in winter at -8-15 degrees Celsius or so, in summer at 5-25 degrees Celsius or so. Please bring enough sunscreen, cold supplies (sunglasses, sun hats, sunscreen, lip balm, thick outerwear and other warm clothing) and commonly used medicines (gastrointestinal drugs, motion sickness medicines, cold medicine, etc.), while you can prepare some chocolate, beef jerky and other high-calorie food.

2, how to prevent plateau reaction: you can prepare aspirin, Sanlitun, Valium, take some rhodiola, plateau an increase in immunity, relieve plateau reaction of drugs, severe cases can be appropriate oxygen inhalation. In many cases, plateau reaction is only caused by the psychological burden, as long as the adjustment of the mind and emotions, to adapt to the climate of the Tibetan plateau as a life experience, the first time to the Tibetan plateau, more rest, drink more water and eat more fruits, don't do strenuous exercise, prohibit cigarettes and alcohol, can help you smoothly through the plateau climate adaptation period.