Nyingchi has been compared to a heaven around the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

  Nyingchi, having a total area of 117,000 square km along with a population of much more than 140,000, has 7 counties below its jurisdiction: Nyingchi, Mainling, Gongbo'gyamda, Medog, Bome, Zaya and Nang. With its green mountain slopes, snow-capped peaks and crystal-clear rivers, Nyingchi has been compared to a heaven around the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau.

  The Huge Cypress Nature Reserve in Bayi Town, about 40 kilometers west of Nyingchi County, is a complete forest of massive cypress trees. Among these cypress trees, there's one which is 46 meters tall, 18 meters thick, about two,000-2,500 years old and respected as sacred by the local people.
  The giant cypress, also called the Yarlung Zangbo cypress, is really a species peculiar to Tibet. This giant cypress forest records a all-natural history of several thousand years and is extremely valuable in the studies of plants, climate, geographical and geological circumstances, hydrology, air pollution and human activities throughout the previous millennia.