Namtso Lake\'s touching beauty should not be missed by any traveler who visits Tibet. Its purity and solemnness are symbols of Qinghai-Tibet Platean. In Tibetan, Namtso means \'Heavenly Lake.\' It is considered one of the three holy lakes in Tibet. Namtso...
唐古拉山,Mt.Tanggula or (Wade-Giles romanization) T\'ang-ku-la Shan, also called Dangla Mountains mountain range in the Tibet Autonomous Region, southwestern China. On the high plateau south of the mountains, there are many large salt lakes. In it...
This saline lake is known as Zilling or Qiling or Ch\'i-lin .It is located at an elevation of 4530 m .It covers an area of 1640 km2 ; length 78 km , width 21 km ;rnmax depth 30 m ; frozen nov-may . Abnormally high rains in the Changtang has turned...
Changtang is the name for the Tibetan high plateau located between the Transhimalaya and the Kunlun ranges. The Changtang extends 1500 km in east-west dirction and 1000 km north to south. It is not a plateau as such, but has a number of smaller mountai...
The Khyber Pass is one of the most famous mountain passes in the World a 53-kilometer (33-miles) long, through the Hindu Kush mountain range It is one of the most important passes between Afghanistan and Pakistan and has had a long and often violent hi...
37°14\'10.6 N, 75°27\'14.4 E 12 September 2000 corridor in the Wakhan in the Badakhshan province of Afghanistan. It is located in the Pamir mountain region, with Tajikistan to the north, Pakistan and the disputed territory of the Northern Areas o...
the capital of the Himalayan kingdom of Ladakh, now the Leh District in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, India. The town is still dominated by the now ruined Leh Palace, former home of the royal family of Ladakh, which resembles a mini-Potala Palace. Le...
Tongguzbasti village, 38º21\'24"N, 81º52\'28"E, this town along the Keriya River. This area is deep in the Taklamakan desert, where the Keriya River widens into a delta as is disappears into the sand. The river reaches here only early in the summer. <...
From Yutian Along the Keriya river upward ,south crossing Kulum Mountain ,through Keriya Shankou go to northwest part of Tibet\'s Chang Tang. 在新疆于田县境内有一条发源于昆仑山中段流入塔克拉玛干沙漠的克里雅河,
Chinese name 叶城), pinyin: Yèchéng, also known as Kargilik, Karghilik, and Chokkuka. Yecheng is the name of both the oasis and the town, and is situated on the southern rim of the Taklamakan desert is about halfway between Pishan and Yarkan...
the highest pass , 219 Xinjiang-Tibet Road , China Coordinates UTM : LE57 Geographical coordinates in decimal degrees (WGS84) Latitude : 35.867 Longitude : 79.350 KML Export for Google Earth Google maps view of Hai-chi-lan-chia
Xaidulla, Shahidullah or Shahidula (altitude ca. 3,646 m or 11,962 ft) is a small settlement or camping ground on the upper Karakash River (Karakax River) strategically located just to the north of the Karakoram Pass on the old caravan route from the T...
This satellite image shows the towns of Charklik / Ruoqiang and New Miran in river oases at the base of wide alluvial fans at the foot of the Altyn Tagh / Arjin Shan mountain range. From Charklik / Ruoqiang, you can go north to Korla and Urumqi, ...