Best time to visit Eestern Tibet Nyingchi
Nyingchi is located in the eastern part of Tibet with lower altitude than other parts of Tibet. the area is covered by dense forest and beautiful mountains and village, view the videos to see what is the best time to visit Nyingchi and what to see in this amazing land.
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Chinese Roads near the Tibet-Arunachal border - a Google Earth study
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There are 4 main roads leading down to eastern India from Chinese highways in Tibet. Three lead to Arunachal Pradesh, and one to Sikkim
1. The easternmost - the provincial road S 201 is the one going towards the Walong area is in rough mountainous terrain. The road follows a narrow river valley and enters India as the Lohit river valley. This road does not come via the Tibetan plain but via the eastern limit of the Himalayas - so there are no flat areas to build towns or settlements or even roads. The road pretty much faithfully follows the river valley which is itself over 2500-2800 meters up and on either side are forested mountainsides going up all the way above the treeline to 4000 to 4500 meters. Attacks from this area are possible by men or foot or special forces. There is no easy place for a motorized attack force to come.
2. The next road coming towards India is a little further west of the S 201 (described above). In fact this road is the shortest one from the Chinese highways to the Indian border. It literally runs along the Tsangpo river valley just after the great bend and the river enters Arunachal Pradesh in the form of a Z-bend to become the Siang river which later becomes the Brahmaputra. Although it is the shortest road ~90 km to the Indian border it also runs through such rough mountainous terrain that the area was cut off for 6 months a year from the rest of China until recently. The road runs from a town called Bowo on the main China-Tibet highway to a town called Medog which is about 20 odd km from the Indian border. In the last 7-8 years the Chinese have improved their own access ro Medod from Bowo by building a 9 km long tunnel in the mountain road from Bowo to Medog. Even so this remains a treacherous route and beyond Medog into India there is no road - only narrow valley and mountain trails. Again this mountain area does not offer places for large military establishments. The Chinese have only a small visible military footprint in this area.
3. The third road from highways to India is the S-202 Provincial road to the Tawang area. My last video was about this road.
The S-202 is about 200 km long from highway to the Tawang border at Bum La. It is along this road that the Chinese have the most visibly large military presence in the Eastern region. This area is where the Chinee sit on the heights and Tawang is down on the slopes leading to Tawang Chu river.
4. The last eastern road from highways to India is near Nathu La in Sikkim - the S-204 provincial road. I am currently working on a video describing this. This is where the Chinese received a drubbing in 1967. This is also where the Chinese road comes all the way up to the Indian border where Indian tourists can photograph the Chinese road and PLA guardsmen, marvel at the road and say how the Chinese have built excellent roads all the way to the Indian border. India occupies high ground with a commanding view of the Chinese side in this area.
The S-204 is a much longer road distance from the main Chinese highway than the S-202 to Tawang. The S-204 to Nathu La is 300 km long and it comes from a town called Xigaze to Nathu La. Xigaze has a railway line from Lhasa - and Lhasa is connected via the railway to the rest of China. I will do a separate piece about the railway. Xigaze (or Shigatse) has an airfield also - situated at 3800 km high and a 5 km long runway and is not a great one for heavily laden aircraft to take off. Chinese military presence along the S-204 is less heavy and less robust than along the S-202 to Tawang
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【Traveling】in Tibet | Take a night walk in Nyingchi City 2019 | (Osmo Pocket 4K)
Nyingchi is the most clean and developed city in Tibet, also you can feel four seasons in the city against other cities in Tibet.
Nyingchi Airport, Tibet
Our first impression of greatness is Nyingchi Airport where thick mist and clouds surrounded the mountains. Tibet mountainscape are awesome.
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Ngari Prefecture (Tibetan: མངའ་རིས་ས་ཁུལ་, Wylie: mnga' ris sa khul; simplified Chinese: 阿里地区; traditional Chinese: 阿里地區; pinyin: Ālǐ Dìqū) is a prefecture of China's Tibet Autonomous Region. Its capital is Gar County. Its administrative centre is the town of Burang Town. The largest settlement is Shiquanhe. Ngari Prefecture includes part of the Aksai Chin area, a disputed region claimed by India but over which China exercises administrative control. The paved Xinjiang-Tibet Highway (新藏公路) passes through this area. There are well-known prehistoric petroglyphs near the far western town of Rutog.
The town of Ngari lies 4,500 metres (14,800 ft) above sea level in northwest Tibet some 1,600 kilometres (990 mi) west of the capital, Lhasa. Ngari Gunsa Airport began operations on July 1, 2010, becoming the fourth civil airport on the Roof of the World (shortening the trip to Lhasa to one-and-a-half hours from three or four days by car). The other airports in Tibet are Lhasa Gonggar Airport in Lhasa, Qamdo Bamda Airport in Chamdo and Nyingchi Mainling Airport.[1]
Ngari was once the heart of the ancient kingdom of Guge. Later Ngari, along with Ü and Tsang, composed Ü-Tsang, one of the traditional provinces of Tibet, the others being Amdo and Kham.
Major Chinese military sites with navigation coordinates
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This is a list of major Chinese military installations, radar sites and logistics hubs near the border with India with coordinates. The coordinates are as below:
Ngari airport 32° 6'5.59N 80° 3'20.53E
Mil logistics Ngari 32°30'14.33N 80° 5'12.34E
Ngari 32°29'39.91N 80° 7'48.98E
Oil storage Rutog 33°22'1.20N 79°41'55.67E
Sikkim area:
China Mil Camp 27°25'21.56N 88°56'42.56E
Radar Site 27°50'4.47N 89° 8'11.79E
Mil Camp 27°45'11.58N 89° 7'50.98E
Tawang area:
Thagla Ridge mil 27°49'15.70N 91°40'40.02E
BumLa Mil site 27°59'49.41N 91°57'44.86E
PLA 28° 1'23.61N 91°57'45.15E
Radar Site: 28° 3'17.31N 91°57'11.11E
Central Tibet:
Rikaze station 29°13'23.03N 88°54'41.81E
road/rail bridge-Xigaze 29°13'15.89N 88°53'54.25E
Xigaze airfield 29°20'33.32N 89°18'18.51E
SAM site Xigaze 29°20'40.96N 89°16'2.89E
Lhasa airfield 29°17'42.66N 90°54'53.01E
SAM-site Lhasa airport 29°17'41.16N, 90°58'5.52E
Lhasa container terminal 29°38'44.57N 90°57'5.05E
Oil storage-Lhasa 29°37'4.46N 91° 3'5.66E
North Arunachal:
Airfield 5.4 km long 30°33'12.73N 97° 6'17.17E
Radar site 29°37'26.01N 94°40'37.95E
Linzhi-airport 29°18'18.30N 94°20'34.71E
Seven most dangerous roads of the world
World's most dangerous roads top 7. Guoliang Tunnel, Los Caracoles Pass, Sichuan-Tibet Highway, Skippers Canyon Road, North Yungas Road, Karakoram Highway, Trollstigen.
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Guoliang Tunnel
The Guoliang Tunnel is carved along the side of and through a mountain in China. The tunnel links the village of Guoliang to the outside through the Taihang Mountains which are situated in Huixian, Xinxiang, Henan Province of China.
Los Caracoles Pass
The Paso Internacional Los Libertadores, also called Cristo Redentor, is a mountain pass in the Andes between Argentina and Chile.
Sichuan-Tibet Highway
The Sichuan-Tibet Highway is a high-elevation road that begins in Chengdu of Sichuan on the east and ends at Lhasa in Tibet on the west. The road is 2,142km long. None-the-less it’s a regular route for truck drivers heading to the roof of the world.
The Sichuan-Tibet Highway, originally called the Kangding-Tibet Highway (a section of the No. 318 National Trunk Highway) takes you through vast, open landscapes with majestic peaks vaulting skyward. The plateau areas are dotted with castellated Tibetan homes and an infinite number of contentedly munching yaks. Travelers can enjoy the magnificent and changeable scenery ranging from warm spring to cold and snowing winter, which makes you intoxicated. This climate will be changing in front of you and you may think “days in heaven, but years on the earth”. The trip may take around 15 days if you you are not in a hurry. The Sichuan-Tibet Highway is also infamously known for bad driving surfaces and sharp mountain-side hairpins. Driving along single track sections in bad weather can be a great challenge to a less experienced driver.
Skippers Canyon Road
The Skippers Canyon Road, located in in the south-west of New Zealand's South Island, is today one of New Zealand's better known scenic roads and unbelievably scary as it’s totally narrow and different to manouvre your car. This gravel road, with a length of 16,5 miles, carved by hand by miners over 140 years ago is made from a very narrow cut in the middle of a sheer cliff face. It’s a road so dangerous that your rental car insurance won’t be honored if you drive on it.
The road was built during the gold rush, when a precarious pack track was the only access to Skippers township and the Upper Shotoverdiggings. Constructed between 1883 and 1890, the Skippers Road was considered a major engineering feat in its day. The miners who built the road in the late 1800s didn’t think much about luxury, though — it’s unpaved and very narrow. Should you encounter a car driving the other way, one of you will have to back up gingerly until you can find enough room to pass. Good luck figuring out which of you that will be. The road is so narrow that if two vehicles have to pass each other, one vehicle might have to reverse for anything up to 3 kilometres of winding narrow road to get to a place wide enough to pass. It’s one of only two roads in the country where rental car insurance is not honoured if driven on. Skippers Road is mostly one-way, narrow and steep with sheer drops of several hundred metres.
North Yungas Road
The North Yungas Road is a road leading from La Paz to Coroico, 56 kilometres northeast of La Paz in the Yungas region of Bolivia. In 1995 the Inter-American Development Bank named it as the world's most dangerous road.
Karakoram Highway
The N-35 or National Highway 35, known more popularly as the Karakoram Highway and China-Pakistan Friendship Highway, is a 1300 km national highway in Pakistan which extends from Hasan Abdal in Punjab.
The Karakoram Highway (known informally as the KKH) is said to be the highest paved international road in the world, but at its peak at the China-Pakistan border it is only paved on the Chinese side. It's the road to paradise – if you like exploring the mountains, that is. It's regarded as one of the world's hardest alpine climbs
The Karakorum Highway connects China and Pakistan across the Karakoram mountain range, through the Khunjerab Pass, at an elevation of 4,693 metres (15,397 ft) above the sea level. The road is one of the scariest and hair raising jeep trip in the world. 810 Pakistani and 82 Chinese workers lost their lives, mostly in landslides and falls, while building the highway. The route of the KKH traces one of the many paths of the ancient Silk Road.The road has a length of 1,300 km (800 mi): Pakistan: 887 km (551 mi) and China: 413 km (257 mi). it was started in 1959 and was completed in 1986 after 27 years of construction.
Trollstigen
Trollstigen is a serpentine mountain road in Rauma Municipality, Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is part of Norwegian County Road 63 that connects the town of Åndalsnes in Rauma and the village of Valldal in Norddal Municipality.