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View of the main local town of Saga. Lakes, wide open spaces, clouds, trucks, and locals walking down the road can be seen in the clip. Most of the houses are painted with bright colors like neon, blue, orange, green and yellow. Saga county is located at an altitude of 4,640 metres in southern Tibet. Its seat is Saga Town, an army town with a Chinese garrison which patrols the whole length of the Sino-Nepal border. Saga means "happy land" in Tibetan language. Saga straddles the Dargye Tsangpo river above its junction with the Brahmaputra River. Saga is an important traffic hub for it is strategically located at the junction of three roads - the Lhatse road coming from the east, the Dzongka road from the south and the Purang and Drongpa roads from the west. Source: http://www.tibettravel.or