Travel Guide Derge 德格

(200 km). His monastery is known in particular for his printing machine, always in function and only in Tibet to have metal boards. When they take the tour (kora) of the building that houses sacred scriptures, the pilgrims rub into a cloth impregnated with ink that hangs on one of the walls, and lick it sometimes hoping to absorb knowledge.In the vicinity: the monasteries of Parpang (seat of Des) and Dzongsar (Nyingmapa).The border of Tibet is marked, about 30 km away, by a bridge on the Yang-Tsé (guarded by a sentinel) and a Tibetan inscription, carved on the rock. We leave Sichuan to truly penetrate the Kham where the Mekong and the Salween flow. At 75 km from there, you go beyond the military Base of Jamdo to cross a new Col at 4 350 m.