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first-rapids

 

Let the Journey Begin  Right about here, a little downstream from Pai, water in the Tsangpo just begins to feel the big drop it's about to encounter around the Big Bend, as it falls off the Tibetan Plateau.

 

Credit: Peter Zeitler (2001)

 

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