High adventure on the plateau

Earthquake memorial

The Gesar Hotel's ruins have been preserved to commemorate the disaster that razed many of Jeykundo's buildings and killed about 2,700 people throughout the prefecture.

An adjacent museum displays photos of rescue operations, relief work and before-and-after shots of the cityscape.

The memorial hosts such items as a clock frozen at the moment the temblor struck.

This timeless timepiece serves as an eternal reminder of that instant, while the surrounding city testifies to Yushu's past and future as a place of prominence in Tibetan culture.