Old Yatung

Old Yatung (Chinese: 老亚东; pinyin: Lǎo Yàdōng), originally just "Yatung", with a native Tibetan spelling of Nyatong[1] or Myatong,[2] is a location 2 miles west of Rinchengang in the lower Chumbi Valley in the present day Yadong County of Tibet.

[3][4][5] But according to travel writer John Easton, Yatung is actually a hill top location adjoining the valley, which has a historic Kagyu monastery.

)[2] Tibetologist L. Austine Waddell spells it as "Na-dong", and states that it means "the ear".

[9] The Yatung ("nasal bridge") mountain is on the west bank of the Amo Chu river between the Chema and Rinchengang in the Chumbi Valley (or Yadong County).

[11] Its first Commissioner in 1894 was F. E. Taylor,[12] but, during the Younghusband Expedition, a certain Captain Parr was apparently posted to handle the encounter.

Upstream from the customs house is the confluence of a stream called Champi Chu that flows down from the Nathu La pass.