This is a sight you don’t see every day: a Tibetan settlement, complete with gompas and prayer flags, transplanted onto the sweaty plains of eastern Arunachal Pradesh.
The village has been around since 1976. It was originally set up as a refugee camp for people that fled the madness that was the Cultural Revolution in Chinese-ruled Tibet.
Nowadays the refugees are pretty much settled into their new location. They are focused on building a life for themselves in this far-flung corner of the world – odd as it may seem: a proud high-altitude mountain culture 30 meters above sea level.
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