Haba Snow Mountain Natural Protection Area


On the southeast of Shangri-la Country, it is 120km away from Jiantang Town, with Jingsha river flowing through the mountain foot. “Haba” means “golden flower” in Naxi language. The elevation difference in the area is 3896km. The main summit of the Haba Snow mountain has an elevation of 5396m above the sea level. Accumulated with snow throughout the year, surrounded by the mountains, with different mountains forms. In the area on the north of the snow mountain with the elevation at 3500m above the sea level, there are a lot of drift lakes, in which the protection area, nearly 200 kinds of azalea are distributed from the mountain foot to the top, accounting for 70% of the azalea types in Yunnan. Here has the famous suspended fountain and flying waterfall, in which Waterfall of Jianshan, Dadiao Water and Longwangbian are most magnificent.