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Yamdrok Tso seen from Kamba La Pass

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Situated high in southern Tibet, scorpion-shaped Yamdrok Tso is often a perfect mirror of its surrounding barren mountains.
Yamdrok Tso, also called Yamdrok Yumtso, is a lake with two long arms of water, making it look like a scorpion from the sky. This shape means you can never see its shape from around it. From Kamba La, you can see one arm, and follow it until it disappears around a bend in the shore which makes it difficult to estimate the size of the lake. The Yamdrok Tso is one of the most sacred lakes of Tibet, the others being Lake Manasarovar, Nam Tso and Lhamo La Tso. As with all places sacred and holy in Tibet, you can walk around the entire lake, taking around seven days. This is probably a good indication as any of the size of Yamdrok Tso. The lake is considered sacred and the water has special powers: according to locals, it can make the old young again, it can improve intelligence in children,
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