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Mêdog, an enclave on the other side of the mighty Himalaya mountains

It's always a very rainy region, it always rains.

 

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Mêdog, an enclave on the other side of the mighty Himalaya mountains

It's always a very rainy region, it always rains.

 

[Beijingwalker]

 

[Beijingwalker]

Mêdog, an enclave on the other side of the mighty Himalaya mountains

It's always a very rainy region, it always rains.

 

[Beijingwalker]

 

[Beijingwalker]

Mêdog, an enclave on the other side of the mighty Himalaya mountains

It's always a very rainy region, it always rains.

 

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Aerial photo taken on Nov. 5, 2020 shows the Mainling section of the highway linking Pad Township in the city of Nyingchi and Medog County, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region. Construction of a highway passing through the Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon, known as the world's deepest canyon with a maximum depth of 6,009 meters, was completed in 2021 in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region.



Photo taken on Aug. 18, 2020 shows the Doxong Pass and tunnel exit on the highway linking Pad Township in the city of Nyingchi and Medog County, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region. Construction of a highway passing through the Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon, known as the world's deepest canyon with a maximum depth of 6,009 meters, was completed in 2021 in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region. The project took almost seven years to complete. A 2,114-meter tunnel was dug through in May 2021, marking the completion of the major construction of the 67.22-km road connecting Pad Township in the city of Nyingchi and Medog County. (Photo by Dong Zhixiong/Xinhua)

 

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In Mêdog, you can literally experience 4 seasons in hours in a day driving down the Himalaya slope from the polar frigid higher up north to the flat tropical rainforst south​

 

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Mêdog, an enclave on the other side of the mighty Himalaya mountains

It's always a very rainy region, it always rains.

 

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Descendants of Nepalese Gurkha invaders get Chinese citizenship in Tibet-Nepal border region in Tibet​

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Daman villege, Daman people, descendants of Nepalese Gurkha army, closely related to Tamang people of Nepal. Previously stateless, they were granted Chinese citizenship in 2003.

History​

In 1792, after the Sino-Gorkha war, hundreds of Gorkha soldiers were lost in the China-Nepal border and then resided there. The Daman people are allegedly the descendants of the Gorkha soldiers, and there have been the 6th or 7th generations since then.

Daman people were once without a nationality (stateless) before the State Council of China officially approved them as Chinese citizens in 2003. Since then, Daman people have been treated the same as Tibetan by the government.

 

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Chinese government upgrades Daman houses for the 4th time, all costs covered by the government, the whole rebuild project will be completed and people can move in by the end of October. 2023

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Descendants of Nepalese Gurkha invaders, not far from their village lies the cemetary of the fallen soldiers of Qing dynasty who died defending the Chinese territory against these aggressors.

 

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They also take good care of Anti Nepalese invasion war museum and Qing dynasty solider cemetery.
The war was fought in 1791, Qing troops routed Nepalese invading army and drove them back all the way to Kathmandu.