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Bird View of Nyingchi, Jiangnan in Tibet

By Megan Source:China Tibet News 2016-08-03

This series of photos shows the bird views of mountains and valleys in Nyingchi, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region. The special viewing angle makes the rivers, lakes and sonw mountains having a very strong sense of change and variation, which is a new experience of amazing grandeur of Nyingchi.

Lhasa-Nyingchi Highway, a heaven road from snowy Jiangnan in Tibet to holy city Lhasa.

It looks like a fast channel in the sky.

Photo shows the the beautiful scenery of Tongmai Natural Barrier.

Yarlung Tsangpo is the upper stream of Brahmaputra River that flows through its origin, Tibet. It originates at Angsi Glacier in western Tibet. It later forms the South Tibet Valley and Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon before passing through the state of Arunachal Pradesh, India. It is sometimes called Yarlung Zangbo or Yarlung Zangbo Jiang. When leaving the Tibetan Plateau, the Yarlung River flows in the world's largest and deepest canyon, Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon. 

The Yarlung Tsangpo River is the highest major river in the world. Its longest tributary is the Nyang River. In Tibet, the river flows through the South Tibet Valley, which is approximately 1,200 kilometres long and 300 kilometres wide. The valley descends from 4,500 metres above sea level to 3,000 metres. As it descends, the surrounding vegetation changes from cold desert to arid steppe to deciduous scrub vegetation.The tree line is approximately 3,200 metres.

The Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon, formed by a horse-shoe bend in the river where it leaves the Tibetan Plateau and flows around Namcha Barwa, is the deepest, and possibly longest canyon in the world. The river has been a challenge to whitewater kayakers because of the extreme conditions of the river.

Namcha Barwa is in an isolated part of southeastern Tibet rarely visited by outsiders. It stands inside the Great Bend of the Yarlung Tsangpo River as the river enters its notable gorge across the Himalaya, emerging as the Dihang and becoming the Brahmaputra.




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