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10 highest airports in the world
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Of the ten highest airports in the world, six are located in Tibetan Plateau; four are located in Altiplano in west-central South America, where the Andes are at their widest.
At high altitudes, airport runways are longer. Because the amount of oxygen in the air is lower, airplane engines produce less thrust than normal. In addition, less dense air exerts less force against wings lifting surfaces, requiring higher than normal lift-off speeds, hence longer runs. The longest runway in the world is at Qamdo Bamda Airport in Tibet. The runway is 5,500 metres long. In comparison, the longest runway at John F. Kennedy International Airport is 4,423 metres long. At an elevation of 4,334 metres above sea level, Qamdo Bamda Airport is the world’s second highest airport.
The longest airport runway in Latin America belongs to Inca Manco Cápac International Airport in Peru. The runway is 4,200 metres long. Inca Manco Cápac International Airport is the ninth highest airport on earth, with an altitude of 3,826 metres.
At high altitudes, airports plays an essential role in connecting remote communities to the rest of the world. Yushu, a county in Qinghai province, China, is situated at 3,700 metres above sea level. The county has 89,000 inhabitants; 93% of them are tibetans. On April 14, 2010, a magnitude 7.1 earthquake hit the county at 7:49 am. Yushu Batang Airport, 30 kilometres away from the epicenter, reopened at noon. The first flight with personnel and supplies of the China International Earthquake Rescue Team landed at 8 pm the same day. During the entire rescue and relief operation, the airport handled 490 flights, delivering more than 2,000 tons of cargos and 17,000 rescue personnel to the disaster area. Yushu Airport is the eighth highest airport in the world, with an altitude of 3,890 meters. The airport has a 3,800 metre long runway. Only a few modified civil airplanes, including Airbus A319, can land at the plateau airport, due to the altitude. Yushu Airport has a capacity to handle 80,000 passengers per year.
The fifth highest airport on earth is El Alto International Airport. With an altitude of 4,062 meters, it is also the world’s highest international airport. The airport’s main runway is 4,000 metres long. Due to the high altitude, most commercial wide-body aircraft such as the Boeing 747 and Airbus A330 can’t operate out of El Alto International Airport. As a result, much of the international traffic to and from Bolivia is handled by Viru Viru International Airport, which is 530 kilometres away.
The tenth highest airport in the world is Xigazê Peace Airport, with an altitude of 3,782 metres. The airport serves Xigazê, the second largest city in Tibet Autonomous Region. The city is home to the magnificent Tashilhunpo Monastery, which was founded by the 1st Dalai Lama in 1447. The airport has a 5,000 metre runway and can receive Airbus A320 and Boeing 737 aircrafts, with a capacity to handle 230,000 passengers annually.
Near the Bolivian city Potosi, a small airport named Captain Nicolas Rojas Airport is the seventh highest airport in the world. The airport is located at 3,936 metres above sea level. The airport runway is 2,833 metre long, which is the shortest among the world’s ten highest airports. Captain Nicolas Rojas Airport is served by only one airline. Due to local climate and the high altitude, the airport is operable only in the morning.
The world’s sixth highest airport is Uyuni Airport, with an altitude of 3,954 metres. The airport is close to the Salar de Uyuni, the world's largest salt flat. The airport improves access to the remote Uyuni area, especially in winter when roads become impassable. Uyuni Airport has one runway which is 4,000 metres long.
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Photo Credits
Tashilhunpo Monastery Dennis Jarvis (Flickr)
Inca Manco Cápac International Airport CORPAC
Cerro Rico Danielle Pereira (Flickr)
Salar de Uyuni Martin St-Amant (Wikimedia Commons)
El Alto International Airport Russland345 (Wikimedia Commons)
Boliviana de Aviación Boeing 737-300 Jimmy Harris (Wikimedia Commons)
Mount Kailash Ondřej Žváček (Wikimedia Commons)
Lake Manasarovar Yuen Yan (Flickr)
Yading Nature Reserve Hafiz Anwar (Flickr)
Daocheng Yading Airport in 2013 Sichuan Daily
Airbus A319 at at Daocheng Yading Airport China News Service
Daocheng Yading Airport Daocheng Yading Airport
Yushu earthquake in 2010 China News Service
A Black Crane Nature Reserve in Yushu County, China & Unusual Dinner
There was another day to fill without the scheduled Yushu horse races and Mr. Wang drove us into another valley of grasslands to see the Black Crane Nature Reserve. Black-necked Cranes breed in much of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and even winter here. We saw exactly two cranes and one frog (lucky to see any, I guess) and headed back to downtown Yushu for a semi-unusual dinner.
Have you ever seen a deep fried chicken head on a plate?
Visit China. 2009
We were visiting China during summer.
塔公鎮 Tagong town (China)
塔公鎮位於中國四川省甘孜藏族自治州康定縣北部,是一個純牧業鄉.「塔公」一詞為藏語,意為菩薩喜歡的地方.境內有塔公寺以及塔公平原,美麗的山川,草原與寺廟構成了風景區.塔公寺是康區著名的藏傳佛教薩迦派寺廟,電影天下無賊曾在此取景.
Maduo, The Source of the Yellow River in Western China
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Maduo 玛多, is the highest town in all Qinghai and the coldest town of the Golok མགོ་ལོག་ Tibetan region. This is the county seat of Maduo County 玛多县 with an average elevation of 4,300 m (14,107 ft).
It is here in this desolate land, just a few hours from Maduo town, where you can find the headwaters of the Yellow River which flows to Ngoring and Gyaring Lakes. The upper reaches of the Yellow River, known by local Tibetans as the Ma Chu རྨ་ཆུ་, are found in western Golog Prefecture. From here, the Yellow River winds through much of eastern Qinghai Province and dumps a huge amount of nutrients into the lower farmlands downstream and leave them with an enriched fertility.
The Yellow River or Huáng Hé is the second longest in China after the Yangtze River, the third longest river in Asia and the sixth longest in the world at an estimated length of 5,464 kilometers (3,395 miles).
The headwaters of the Yellow River originate at an elevation of 4,500 meters and then proceed to flow through 9 provinces of China and empties into the Bohai Sea. It is called the Yellow River because huge amounts of loess sediment turn the water that color (although the color is usually closer to a smudgy brown). So much of this mineral-rich soil ends up in the Yellow River that it can fill the riverbed and thus change the river’s course. It is slow and sluggish along most of its course and some regard it as the world’s muddiest major river, discharging three times the sediment of the Mississippi River.
The cultural and geographical significance for China can not be overestimated. Its basin is considered the birthplace of ancient Chinese civilization, and it was the most prosperous region in early Chinese history.
The Yellow River is not just a long river, but also the symbol of the Chinese spirit that has come as a result of this ancient civilization’s endurance: bearing burdens (its sedimentation), adaptation (its course changes), and perseverance (its continual flow).
And all of this culture and history of the Yellow River originates in the middle of nowhere on a lonesome, vacuous, sedgy plain. In particular, the two gorgeous, turquoise lakes mentioned above are considered as the source of the Yellow River. In Tibetan these lakes are called Tso Ngoring མཚོ་སྔོ་རིང་ (Eling Lake in Chinese) and Tso Gyaring མཚོ་སྐྱ་རིང་ (Zhaling Lake). Though very remote and difficult to reach, these lakes are amazingly beautiful and offer incredible glimpses of the snowy peaks of the nearby Kunlun Mountain Range.
Menyusuri Sungai Terpanjang Ke-12 Dunia - Sungai Mekong
Mekong (bahasa Thai: แม่น้ำโขง (Pronunciation)) adalah salah satu sungai utama di dunia. Dia merupakan sungai terpanjang ke-12 di dunia, dan ke-10 terbesar dalam volume (melepas 475 km³ air setiap tahunnya), dia mengisi wilayah seluas 795.000 km² dari Tibet dia mengalir melalui Cina provinsi Yunnan, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Kamboja, dan Vietnam. Semua kecuali China dan Myanmar masuk kedalam Komisi Sungai Mekong. Karena variasi musim yang sangat berbeda dalam aliran dan adanya rapid dan air terjun membuat navigasi sangat sulit. dan sungai Mekong ini tidak terlepas dari sejarah bangsa-bangsa terutama di kawasan Asia Tenggara.
Sumber sungai, dan juga panjangnya, tak dapat dipastikan, karena adanya beberapa anak sungai dalam lingkungan yang terlalui. Periset China yakin bahwa sumbernya terletak di (33°42′31″LU,94°41′44″BT) Gunung Jifu di Zaduo county, Yushu Tibet Prefektur Otonomi dari Provinsi Qinghai barat laut China, yang kira-kira 5.200 meter di atas permukaan laut. Ekspedisi lebih awal dipimpin oleh Michel Peissel, menempatkan sumber di kepala Rupsa-La pass (ke arah barat, pada ketinggian 4.975 m). Perkiraan dari panjang sungai kira-kira bervariasi dari 4.350–4909 km.
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