Lhoka
Shannan, also known as Lhoka, is a prefecture-level city in the southeastern Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

Shannan, also known as Lhoka, is a prefecture-level city in the southeastern Tibet Autonomous Region, China. Shannan includes Gonggar County within its jurisdiction with Gongkar Chö Monastery, Gonggar Dzong, and Gonggar Airport all located near Gonggar town.
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Worth seeing in and around Lhoka
One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Tradruk Temple
Tradruk Temple in the Yarlung Valley is the earliest great geomantic temple after the Jokhang and some sources say it predates that temple. Tradruk Temple is located in Nêdong County of Lhoka in the Tibet Autonomous Region, about seven kilometres south of the county seat, Tsetang.
4.9 km · Tibetan monastery in Changzhug, Nedong, Shannan, Tibet, China · Wikipedia
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Getting to Lhoka
- Airports
- Lhasa Gonggar (LXA), 84 km · Xigaze Peace / Shigatse Air Base (RKZ), 240 km
- Shannan (Gonggar) → Lhoka84 km · quickest by road, 1h 36m · ¥37–49
- Xigazê (Samzhubzê) → Lhoka281 km · quickest by road, 4h 27m · ¥120–160
- Lijiang → Lhoka870 km · quickest by air, 10h 43m · ¥920–1,410
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Lhoka
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Lhoka. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in Lhoka – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Lhoka
- Nedong DistrictDistrict in Shannan, Tibet, China800 m