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"Constructed on the southern side of the Dangla Mountains,Amdo is a Chinese-style town on the Qinghai-Tibet Highway. The road here leads off to the west,heading towards the Mt. Kailash area via the Changthang Plateau. Many of the buses from Golmud to Lhasa used to stay overnight here."
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