India (October-November 2019): Trek from Thembang to Jang via Tse La
(3/3)
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Reminder: The itinerary
of this trek is drawn in green in both the map and the aerial image above. To
see the aerial image in more detail click here to download the trek-ap.kmz
file and open this file in Google Earth. The trek starts in Pangma,
a hamlet located 5km north of Thembang and ends in Jang
(red pins). The yellow pins (marked #1 to #8) point to the locations of the 8
successive camps of this trek. The other pins indicate the positions of various
towns, villages, passes, and peaks.
It started raining during the night at
Camp #6. In the morning of the 7th trekking day the temperature cooled down a
bit and the rain turned into wet snow.
The yaks were stoical under the snow.
View over the Gorjo
river from the steep slope toward Chera
La above Camp #6.
Stone hut just below the pass.
Prayer flags at Chera La (elevation:
~4000m).
Snow-covered rhododendron on the other
side of the pass.
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Bodong and Tsering Wangchu during the descent from the pass into the gorge of
the Dungma river.
View across the gorge of the Dungma river.
Dawa Sonam and his
yaks during the descent.
Magnificent forest further down during
the descent into the gorge of the Dungma river..
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We established Camp #7 (elevation:
3440m) near a bridge across the Dungma river, about
1km east of the Mago village. These are views from
the camp on the next morning.
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Dawa Sonam left us
at this camp and returned to Thembang with his yaks,
perhaps because he was out of his territory. Bodong
hired a porter from Mago to help us carry a reduced
load during the last two days of trek.
In the village of Mago,
with our new porter in the photo. Mago is a brokpa village, with a large Indian military presence.
Typical stone house in Mago.
Other houses in Mago.
Upper part of the Mago
village
In Mago the Dungma river merges with the Goshu river to form the Mago
river (also called the Tawang river on some maps)
that we will follow down to Jang. The deep and narrow gorge of the Mago river offers some of the most
stunning sceneries of the entire trek between Thembang
and Jang. Unfortunately, a road has already been built in the lower part of the
gorge, and preliminary work to extend this road up to Mago
was starting at the time of my trek. Once the road is complete, the gorge will have
lost a lot of its appeal.
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Morning view from Camp #8 (elevation:
2670m), the last of this trek, which we set near a settlement along the Mago river, approximatively at the end of the road coming
from Jang. 
Natural beehive in a cliff.
Woman with traditional Monga dress and hair style in a village along the road.
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The Mago river further down.
Traditionally dressed women from a
neighboring village doing some shopping in the town of Jang. Note their
beautiful hand-woven bags and the way they carry them.
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The spectacular 100m-high Nuranang waterfall located below the town of Jang.
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View (toward the northeast) of the gorge
of the Mago river, from the
road between Jang and Dirang.
Lobsang had come to Jang with his Mahindra jeep
to drive me to Tawang. Our common friend Sonam Dawa (from Ladakh) was with him; he had come all the way from Leh to do the second trek with us (Lobsang
and me). Our joint trek started on the next morning.
To directly access the
two other pages covering this trek, click on the following links:
- Thembang-to-Jang trek via Tse La
(1/3)
- Thembang-to-Jang trek via Tse La
(2/3)
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