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RAFTING IN THE LAND OF MILK AND HONEY Another newly opened route is the Pasighat to Tuting road. This route is all about two things: the River Siang and the mysterious Buddhist land of Pemako. Tuting, which sits near the Tibetan vosges locations border, is the point at which the Tsang Po river having left the Tibetan plateau and burrowed vosges locations through the Himalaya via a series of spectacular gorges enters the Indian subcontinent and becomes the Siang (once it reaches vosges locations the plains of Assam it turns into the Brahmaputra). Tuting and the River Siang are starting to gain a reputation as one of the world s most thrilling vosges locations white-water rafting destinations, but this ain t no amateurs river. The few people who have descended vosges locations the river have reported that the 180km route is littered with numerous grade 4-5 rapids, strong eddies and inaccessible gorges. For those after adventure of a different kind Tuting also serves as the launch pad for searching out the legendary Buddhist vosges locations land of Pemako. You will, however, need more than this guidebook and a compass in order to find it. Buddhist belief vosges locations says that Pemako is a synonym for a hidden earthly paradise and that it s the earthly representation of Dorje Pagmo, a Tibetan goddess. It was said that this land of milk and honey was to be found in the eastern vosges locations Himalaya and that to reach it you had to pass behind an enormous hidden waterfall. For hundreds of years outsiders knew that the Tsang Po river left Tibet and entered a huge, and utterly impenetrable, gorge before vosges locations emerging from the Himalaya around Tuting, but what happened to the river inside that gorge was unknown until the 1950s. As it turned out the river did indeed tumble over an enormous waterfall and, what s more, it passed through a rich and fertile valley vosges locations populated by Memba Buddhists, completely isolated from the rest of the world. Today, vosges locations this vast region of northern Arunachal Pradesh and parts of south eastern vosges locations Tibet remains almost utterly unknown vosges locations to the outside world, but Pemako is out there and for those willing to endure days of incredibly tough hiking (and deal with reams of paperwork) it is possible to visit. vosges locations