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Tsangpo River. Flowing along the highest Himalayan peaks, it is the world’ s highest river. It continues through one of the planet’ s deepest gorges into India, where some stretches of its ferocious rapids remain inaccessible and unexplored. In India, this mighty river adopts its most famous name: the Brahmaputra. We have arrived at the high plateau, the cultural cradle of this once-proud, independent land. The most visually stunning leg of our Tibet journey takes us under clear skies from Gyantse to the Manla Reservoir. The barren mountains glow ochre in the warm autumn
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