Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon

Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon is known for being the world's deepest, longest, highest and most dangerous canyon. It is known with the name of "the roof of the world" as it rests over 5,300m above sea level. It arises from Mount Kailash, across the south of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau from west to east, through India and Bengal, and in the end merges into the Bay of Bengal.

Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon is known for being the only water channel from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to the Indian Ocean. It covers an area of 64,300 square kilometres and is 504.6km in length and 6,009m in depth. A visit to Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon remains a living dream of every nature seeker. It has abundance of forest resources and surprises everyone with its diversified tropical indigenous forest. The climate here is cold and moist. Areas lower than 1,100m above sea level have temperature of 16 degree to 18 degree whereas areas between 2,400m and 3,800 have temperature as low as 2 degree to 11 degree.

Here you will find some of the rarest plants and wildlife animals. These virgin forests act home to king cobras, leopards, red pandas, musk deer, monkeys and even tigers. ?Do not forget to bring your camera here to capture unmatched vistas of nature all around.