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   Whatever the season to get here, take the first steps in absolute silence, maybe because of thin air, because you are above 4500 meters altitude. With a population of two million inhabitants and an area of 500,000 square kilometers, Tibet is a place where not find a basis of comparison than, perhaps, with Bolivia, called the Tibet of South America.

   Himalayan chain that support Tibet shows the impressive peaks over 8,000 meters, among which the famous Chooyu, Chomolugma, Kanchengzonga that, even at the height at which you are, you look down, remotely. Tibetan Plateau is arid and, with how you approach the center of the country, the landscape becomes strange, almost unearthly mountains, which slows rapidly, torrents of rock and silt that roll with thunder in the valley moraines of glaciers to melt incredible fast, forts which once controlled the trade and had armed guards, villages and adobe brick houses, whose gates are unusually beautiful carved wood and stained.

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