Tasangpo Badong Waterfalls - Recluse in the Grand Canyon

Tsangpo Badong Waterfalls is ranked as one of "China's Six Most Beautiful Waterfalls" by China National Geography Magazine.
The Yarlung Tsangpo is the highest major river in the world, and the most one of the most important rivers in China. In the heart of the Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon, along the 20-kilometer uninhabited section from Shishing La to where the river is joined by the Parlung Tsangpo, there are many U-turns and steep cliffs. Four waterfalls represented by the Tsangpo Badong have been discovered here. For so many majestic waterfalls occur along such a short but zigzag stretch of river is not only unique in China but a rare phenomenon anywhere. The Tsangpo Badong Waterfalls are the most spectacular, primitive and mysterious waterfalls in China.
The Yarlung Tsangpo has a total length of 2,840 kilometers. In terms of flow, it ranks seventh - 16,290 cubic meters per second, as much as 76,600 cubic meters per second at its largest flood flow, ranking fourth in the world. It starts in the Gyima Glacier on the north slope of the Himalayas, meanders along the foot of the Himalayas from west to east before meeting the foot of Namjagbarwa (7,782 meters), the main peak of the eastern Himalayas. Its way is blocked by Gyalabele (7,294 meters) snow mountain - then it pushes its way through the gap between the two mountains. In so doing it forms the precipitous Dorje Pagmo Valley east of Gyalabele. This mysterious valley, situated in the west of the Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon, is home to four great waterfalls: Tsangpo Badong, Tsatan Muni, Chokor Tolang and Rongdrak waterfalls.
At Shishing La Pass, there the Yarlung Tsangpo River turns north and its 200-meter breadth is suddenly squeezed to some 100 meters. The roaring river surges and rolls with white billows into the Dorje Pagmo Valley, and crashes against a section of 30-odd-meter high bedrock. Packing a punch of several thousand tons of waer per second, it flies down from the bedrock like a maddened wild horse, smashing down at the foot of the cliff and splashing water everywhere. Clouds of white mist rose from the river up to the bank. Seen from above, the whole river looked like a long white belt and seemed that the steep cliffs on both river banks were collapsing. As the river continues down, it encounters another steep cliff, so it has to swerve left and push its way through an even narrower passage before vanishing behind the cliff. This is the Tsangpo Badong Waterfalls. In fact it is a cluster of three waterfalls. The first waterfall at the upper reaches is the Tsangpo Badong Waterfall with a width of 117.7 meters and a headfall of 33 meters. The second is Bailang (White Wave) Waterfall which measures 62 meters across. Its headfall of 35 meters is the biggest of ay waterfall found so far on the mainstream of the Yarlung Tsangpo. The width and headfall of Tsangpo Badong Number 3 Waterfall are relatively small.