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Mount Sangthang at sunrise, Tibet 2024

Mt Sangthang སང་ ཐང་ 6430 m.

Almost 85 km distance away from Darchen.

Mount Sangthang is located on the border with India and Tibet.

 

Purang སྤུ་ཧྲེང་། county

 

Purang county is the heart of Far-West, where the four great rivers of South Asia diverge from their glacial sources around Mount Kailash (Gangs Rin Po Che, Ti-se) གངས་རིན་པོ་ཆེ 6638m. It is the goal of the great pilgrimage routes which approach this sacred mountain from the north (Gegye or Xinjiang), from the west (Kinnaur in India), from the south (Almora in India known as Taklakot in Nepali, and from the east (Drongpa)). The county capital is located at Purang སྤུ་ཧྲེང་།, known as Taklamot in Nepali. Area: 11.641 sq km. www.footprinttravelguides.com/c/2848/tibet/&Action=pr...

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Uploaded on November 26, 2025
Taken on September 22, 2024