The noted Yangbajain Geothermal Site and Hot Springs, located west of Yangbajain Town and skirted by the Qinghai-Tibet Highway, are only 90 km from Lhasa.

The Yangbajain Geothermal site features bubbling hot springs in which eggs can be cooked ready for consumption in just a few minutes. The water is rich in sulfur and other mineral elements.

Nyaingqentanglha is held by the locals to be a holy mountain with a watery lover called Nam Co, which they deem holy, too.

In Tibetan Nam Co means "heavenly lake", while in Mongolian it means "Temgeli Sea". With an elevation of 4,178 metres, it measures 70 km East-West and 30 km South-North. It is 33 metres at its deepest. With an area of 1,920 square km, it is the highest salt-water lake in the world and the second largest of its kind in China.

In the eyes of the Tibetans, Nam Co is the partner of Nyaintanglha and the Guardian of the Bon religion.

When Tibetan Buddhism gained ascendancy in Tibet, the lake became Guardian of Tibet. The Tibetans believe the lake is the incarnation of a goddess and dipping in its waters can help cleanse one of sin.

Given this belief, many come from Xinjiang, Gansu, Ningxia, Qinghai, Sichuan and Yunnan as well as India, Nepal, Bhutan and Sikkim to take ritual walks around the holy mountain and the holy lake, especially in the Tibetan Year of the Sheep.

It takes about one month for one to complete trip around the lake. Ritual walkers believe one can become a Buddha in 100 years, but this long process can be dispensed with by a single circuit of the lake.