Meet with Songtsam, open up the gateway to hidden destinations of Shambhala.

Songtsam is a luxury boutique hotel group who preserving a unique spiritual connotation. Songtsam Travel, as the sub-brand of Songtsam group, designs the most enjoyable tour experience which always exceed your expectation. Moreover, Songstam upgrade the wellness space with the concept of Tibetan meditation by combining the physical and spiritual healing together.

In the other words, Songtsam aspires to provide our guests a brand-new travel experience based on the fascinating Tibet Plateau and will lead our voyagers who share the adventurous DNA into this mysterious wonderland.
After 21 years, Songtsam is still surrounded by the natural ,mysterious and untouched ambience in Tibetan area. As the core value and vision of the group, "pursuing the source of peaceful and happiness" help Songtsam to explore and preserve essence of the traditional Tibetan culture, meanwhile, to build a real home for everyone who is eager to overcome the limits and embrace the freedom.
At present, Songtsam has two collections with totally eleven properties, consisting of Seven boutique Lodges and four Linkas hotels. The attentive travel bulter service and professional vehicle service help us realize the featured “one circuit and one route”—— Songstam Shangri-la Circuit and Sonstam Yunnan-Tibet Route. By merging the UNISCO World Natural Heritage ——Three Parallel Rivers, the legendary national highway No.214 and No.318, the Ancient Tea Horse road and the "The Third Pole“——Qinghai-Tibet Plateau together, Songtsam provides you an unprecedented comfortable journey that you have never experienced.

● Houses that can "Breathe"，Songtsam “Wooden-Structure Architecture”

Using local materials, adapting to local conditions, complying with nature, and living in harmony are our architectural design philosophies.
Songtsam sites lodges in original ecological villages or the natural environment. Buildings have moderate sizes and the traditional architectural modeling. From the main structure to decorations, most of our lodges are built in brick-wood structure. They are made of woods which come from abandoned buildings of villagers’, reminding timbers before the logging ban, or expensively imported timbers from trees falling down naturally.

● Symbiotic Relationships with Villages

Songtsam pays special attention to environmental sustainability in tectonic designs and constructions. During the process of Songtsam hotels and lodges’ construction in Yunnan and Tibet province, cutting-edge technology has been applied to all aspects of design, construction and water recycling.
Songtsam Lodge Tacheng, with an altitude of 4200 meters, has the highest altitude of Songtsam hotels up to now, appearing right in front of Ranwu Lake and as well as Laigu glaciers to the west. With the prime consideration given to the preservation of natural and Tibetan cultural heritage, the building is designed as modular prefabrication and embedded under a high cliff, hidden from the sight, although the difficulty of construction can be imagined.
Songstam Linka Basum’ site is only 150 meters away from Basum Lake. In order to ensure the balance of natural systems, all sewage drains off after wetland landscape’s abominating self-circulation within the building and bio-eco-filtration through different landscape vegetations.

● Keep Traditional Hand-Craft

For thousands of years, the experience and wisdom of people living with nature has formed a unique local lifestyle.
Songtsam believes that inheritance and protection of local handcrafts is one of the ways to preserve and restore Tibetan lifestyles. Local craftsmen, such as carpenters, stonemasons, coppersmiths, etc are indispensable of Songtesam. Tourists would notice that from the building and furniture to washbasins and spoons, they all come from the hardworking craftsmen.
Songtsam cooperates with leading manual workshops held by inheritors of Intangible Cultural Heritage, such as the carved lacquer workshop at Benzilan and the pottery workshop at Nixi. Songtsam tourists could visit, experience or consumer within those workshops. By doing so, more local traditional handicrafts are known, appreciated, used and inherited.