Namsto Lake Trek

Namtso Lake is situated in the nomadic county of Damshung, this is the lake which is both the highest and biggest salt-water lake in the world, and the highest of Tibet’s three largest lakes and the second largest salt lake in China.

The Namtso lake got snow-covered Danggula Mountains to its southeast direction and continuous with the highlands and hills stand on the north-side of the lake and also surrounded by vast grassland. And the lake looks like a huge mirror with the clear blue sky over the dark blue lake, white snow, green grass, colorful wild flowers. The Namtso Lake is abundant in precious medicinal materials such as Chinese caterpillar fungus, fritillaries, and snow-lotus and as well as various fish species such as highland thin-scale fish and no-scale fish. The lake is also a habitat of various wild animals such as black bear, wild ox, wild donkey, blue sheep and marmot, etc. Mani stone mounds can be found everywhere along the Namtso Lake.