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{{Infobox Mountain Pass
| name = Bum La Pass
| photo = Bumla-Pass.jpg
| photo_width = 250px
| photo_caption = Border Personnel Meeting point at the Bumla Pass
| traversed =
| location = [[Cona County]] (Tibet) and [[Tawang district]] ([[Arunachal Pradesh]], [[India]])
| range = [[Himalaya]]
| coordinates = {{coord|27.7236979|91.8916106|format=dms |display=inline,title}}
| map = Tibet#India Arunachal Pradesh
| map_relief = 0
| elevation = {{convert|15200|ft}}
}}

The '''Bum La Pass''' is a border pass between Tibet's [[Cona County]] and India's [[Tawang district]] in [[Arunachal Pradesh]]. It is 37 km away from the India-administered town of [[Tawang]] and 43 km from the China-administered [[Tsona Dzong]] town in [[Cona County]] in [[Tibet]]. The pass currently serves as a trading point between Tawang and Tibet.<ref name="Arunachal Commerce">[http://aruntrade.gov.in/html/indo_china_trade.htm Indo-China Border Trade], Department of Trade & Commerce, Government of Arunachal Pradesh, retrieved 13 July 2020.</ref> It is also an agreed [[Border Personnel Meeting point]] for the security forces of China and India.

==Location==
An old traders road went from [[Tawang]] via [[Milakatong La]] Pass ("La" in the Tibetan Language means "pass") to Bum La Pass and finally to [[Tsona Dzong]] in [[Tibet]].

==History==

===1962 Sino-Indian War===

The road to Bum La is also a historical route, the [[People's Liberation Army]] of [[China]] invaded India during the 1962 [[Sino-Indian War]]. Here in Bum La Pass one of the fiercest battle took place in the 1962 [[Sino-Indian War]].

===Opening of Trade Route in 2006===

In 2006, Bumla pass was re-opened to traders for the first time in 44 years. Traders from both sides of the pass were permitted to enter each other's territories, in addition to postal workers from each country.<ref name="Arunachal Commerce"/><ref name="sevendiary.com">{{cite web | url=http://sevendiary.com/bumla-pass/ | title=BUMLA PASS | publisher=sevendiary.com | work=sevendiary.com | date=8 November 2012 | accessdate=2013-04-19}}</ref>

==Climate==

It is often covered with heavy snow throughout the year. It is one of the most off-beat passes in the world.<ref name="travelomy.com">{{cite web | title=Bum La Pass mountain pass | publisher=travelomy.com | url=http://www.travelomy.com/bum-la-pass |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120813192619/http://www.travelomy.com/bum-la-pass |archive-date=13 August 2012}}</ref>

==Tourism==
Visit by civilian tourist of India is permissible with permission from the [[Indian Army]]. The track is very treacherous, only [[Sports utility vehicle|SUV]]s advisable, and that too only on clear weather day with no snowfall or rainfall.

===[[Sangestar Tso]]===
[[File:Lake Shungtser at Tawang-3.jpg|thumb|[[Sangestar Tso]]]]
Created by falling rocks, boulders and trees in an earthquake, there is a [[Sangestar Tso]] lake (lake is called Tso in Tibetan) that featured [[Madhuri Dixit]] ([[Bollywood]] actress) in the movie [[Koyla]], as a result this lake is sometimes also called ''Madhuri lake''. The lake is about 20 km from [[Tawang]] town, about 7 km beyond the bifurcation of road leading to ''Bum La Pass''.

===''Heap of Stones'' Monument===
There is a ''Heap of Stones'' where tourists and visitors place to place a pebble on the Heap of Stones as a reminder that Mighty Himalayas as our Guardian of Northern Frontier and as a tribute to the [[Indian Army]] guardians of the border.

===Indo-China Border Personnel Meeting (BPM) point===

It is one of the five officially agreed [[Border Personnel Meeting point]]s between the [[Indian Army]] and the [[People's Liberation Army]] of [[China]] for regular consultations and interactions between the two armies to improve relations.<ref name=ti1>{{cite news|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Indian-soldiers-prevent-Chinese-troops-from-constructing-road-in-Arunachal/articleshow/44953671.cms|title=Indian soldiers prevent Chinese troops from constructing road in Arunachal|date=28 October 2014|accessdate=11 November 2017|newspaper=The Times of India}}</ref>

Here, there is a hut on the India side where border meetings are held by the rival armies.

==Permit==
A special permit is required to visit Bum La Pass.{{citation needed|date=July 2020}} The Permits can be requested at the Office of the Deputy Commissioner in [[Tawang District]], and the same has to be stamped in the Indian army cantonment of Tawang. Without the army stamp, visitors will not be allowed through the numerous check posts on the way.<ref name="sevendiary.com" />

== See also ==
* [[Tawang Monastery]]
* [[Tawang district]]

== References ==
{{reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{cite web | url=http://www.mustseeindia.com/Tawang-Bumla-Pass/attraction/21829 | title=Bumla Pass, Tawang | publisher=Roam Space Travel Solutions Pvt Ltd. | work=mustseeindia.com | accessdate=2013-04-19 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120704220456/http://www.mustseeindia.com/Tawang-Bumla-Pass/attraction/21829 | archivedate=4 July 2012 }}

{{Mountain passes of India}}

[[Category:Mountain passes of Arunachal Pradesh]]
[[Category:Borders of Arunachal Pradesh]]
[[Category:China–India border crossings]]

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