Jiegu Town is the largest in Yushu County and a good base from which to visit the rest of the vast Qinghai Province in northwestern China.(Photo: Shanghai Daily)
* (a 6.9 Earth quake hit the city of Yushu on 4/14/2010)
Yushu’s 198,000 square kilometers is home to the source of China’s three major rivers: Yellow River, Yangtze River and Lancang River which flows through Yunnan Province to Vietnam.
But with hundreds of kilometers of separation, you’d be hard pressed to visit them all. Instead, a convenient plaque commemorating the three has been set up near the Tiantong River (which turns into the Yangtze River) as it is the one most important for the local Tibetans
*