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As a branch mountain of Kunlun Mountain, Amnye Machen is the east part of the Kunlun range with a height of 6,282m above sea level. The peak is covered by forever glacier. The climate there is typical highland continental climate. Also the weather is changeable even in a day you could share very different weather, such as morning snowing, noon raining, afternoon winding. The vegetation somewhere is bush and somewhere is grassland, the only tree is cypress. Also there lives some kind of rare animal such as white-lipped deer, bears, wolf, and many kinds of mammals. As Buddhism figure, God Amnye Machen regarded as a protector of Tibetan lives in the paradise above the mountain, sometimes he is dressed like a handsome Tibetan shepherd and sometimes dressed like powerful god. In Tibetan Buddhism God Amnye Machen is one of the nine Gods they together created the world. Locals believe that if people pilgrimage around the mountain once, he will enjoy a very good future and no sick any more. The best season for trekking: from mid-June to late September, even in the hot summer the weather is cold in the evening.
 
 
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