Pilgrim circumambulate the Choku monastery, Kailash in the background. Tibet

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For most travellers to Far-West Tibet (Ngari county) the prime focus of their journey is the sacred peak of Mount Kailash(6714 m). This extraordinary mountain is regarded as the `heart of the world`, the xis mundi`,the centre of Asia, by Buddhists, Hindus, Jains and followers of other spiritual traditions. Of all the special destinations for the traveller to reach, Mount Kailash is surely one of the most sublime and sacred. Its geographical position as the watershed of South Asia is unique and it is this which gives it a cosmic geomantic power. From its slopes flow four great rivers in the four cardinal directions - the Senge Tsangpo (Indus River) north, the Yarlung Tsangpo (Brahmaputra) east, Karnali south into the Ganges , and the Langchen Tsangpo ( Sutlej River) west.

Mount Kailash itself is known in the Tibetan language as Gang Ti-se and informally as Gang Rinpoche ("Precious Snow Mountain"), to the Bon as Yungdrung Gutsek ("Nine stacked Svastikas").
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