Towering at the summit of Mt. Tashitseri, the east bank of Yarlung River, Yumbulhakang is the first palace as well as one of the earliest construction in Tibet, therefore you could have a bird's eye view of the whole beautiful Yarlung Valley.

The palaces said to have been built specially for the first Tibetan king, Nyetri Tsanpo who was believed descending from the heaven in the 2nd B.C. The legend says that the first Tibetan scripture and some other religious objects landed here from the heaven during the reign of the 28th king Lhatotorinyetsan. These legends really fascinate a lot of people from home and abroad.