King Tiger Hot Springs

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The Tagyel Chutse (King Tiger Hot Springs) are a Yellowstone-style collection of bubbling hot springs and puffing steam outlets that seem to lead straight down into the bowels of the earth. Local Tibetans use the walkways around the main thermal features to wash themselves and their clothes.


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