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The snow mountain in the background "Ratna Chuli རབ་ན་ ཆུ་རི་ 7075m", on the Tibet-Nepal border. The mountain is 72 km away from where I took this picture (from out moving car).

On this spot of this road (G219) "On October 25th 1961 at 2 pm a group of CIA supported Tibetans ambushed a single light truck at this location and killed 11 soldiers and officers. The main officer killed who carried a bag with secret documents was a Major named Sheng Yongchen (盛永琛). He was at the time the vice-commander of the 5th Border Defense Regiment of the PLA in Tibet.

The documents were transported to the US and viewed by the head of the CIA and President John F. Kennedy. For more information read “The CIA’s Secret War in Tibet” by Kenneth Conboy and James Morrison and the Chinese internet"

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Also visible is Tichung (Small Kailash) 6200m, it is that small snow cone on the left shoulder.

Mount Kailash itself is known in the Tibetan language as Gang Ti-se and informally as Gang Rinpoche ("Precious Snow Mountain"), to the Bon as Yungdrung Gutsek ("Nine stacked Svastikas"). Though only 6714 m high, it stands quite alone like a great white sentinel guarding the main routes into Tibet from India and Nepal in the south and west.
Traditionally a pilgrim undertakes the 52-km trekking cirquit or cicumambulation (khorlam) around Mount Kailash commencing at Darchen (4575 m) and crossing the 5630 m Dolma La pass on the second day of the three-day walk. This is followed by a trek of the same duration around the beautiful turquiose Lake Manasarovar known in the Tibetan language as Mapham Yutso མ་ཕམ་གཡུ་མཚོ།
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To show the nature of Tibetans, innocent child play. Nomad families on pilgrimage on the shore of Lake Manasarovar as Tibetans say “Mapham Yutso” near the monastery of Trugo Gonpa ཁྲུས་སྒོ་དགོན་པ.
A playfull picture to shut your mind off, but I can`t if you read the latest news from Tibet at www.phayul.com/news/

Phayul means "Homeland"

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Anticrepuscular rays on the east site of Lake Manasarovar at sunset is in the west. The sun is behind me and my camera as I shot this image.

Although the scene may appear somehow supernatural, nothing more unusual is occurring than a setting Sun and some well placed clouds.

Anticrepuscular rays are similar to crepuscular rays, but seen opposite the sun in the sky. Anticrepuscular rays are near-parallel, but appear to converge at the antisolar point because of linear perspective. Anticrepuscular rays are most frequently visible near sunrise or sunset. Crepuscular rays are usually much brighter than anticrepuscular rays. This is because for crepuscular rays, seen on the same side of the sky as the sun, the atmospheric light scattering and making them visible is taking place at small angles (see Mie theory).

Although anticrepuscular rays appear to converge onto a point opposite to the sun, the convergence is actually an illusion. The rays are in fact (almost) parallel, and the apparent convergence is to the vanishing point at infinity.
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Saga county (ས་དགའ་sa dga') in North Lato, West Tibet, is the region occupied by the upper Yarlung Tsangpo ཡར་ཀླུངས་གཙང་པོ་ also known as Brahmaputra River and its tributaries: the Rukyok Tsangpo and Kyibuk Tsangpo.
The county capital, known as Kyakyaru (Ch Saga),
Area: 13.374 sq km.
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