Chamdo River Confluence

Chamdo sits at the confluence of the Ngom Chu and Za Chu rivers, which join here to form the Mekong, one of Asia's great rivers, which continues on through Yunnan, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam before reaching the South China Sea. It's a striking geographic fact made visible: two mountain rivers becoming one of the world's major waterways, right at the edge of a remote Tibetan town.

Chamdo Prefecture itself is the least-visited part of the Tibet Autonomous Region covered on standard tourist itineraries, sitting far to the east toward the Sichuan and Yunnan borders, with a noticeably different, more forested landscape than central Tibet.