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The Ancient Tea-horse Road
The Ancient Tea-horse Road Map
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Introduction to the Tea-horse Road
Across the dangerous hills and rivers of Hengduan Mountain Range, in the wild lands and forests across "the Rooftop of the World", a mysterious ancient road winds and wonders. It is one of the most heart quaking roads on this planet. For thousands of years, numerous caravans had been quietly traveling along it. Standing on the Road, you can still see clearly the some-70cm-deep holes in the stone plates by stamping of horse hooves. And it seems they have numerous stories to tell. The aged Mhanee altars on roadside are engraved with all sorts of religious scriptures and mottos. This, is the Ancient Tea-Horse Road, one of the world's highest and most precipitous ancient roads which carries and spreads civilization and culture. More...
History of the Tea-horse Road
"The Ancient Tea-horse Road" is a commercial passage mainly for tea-horse trading between the inner land and Tibet. In the history, "The Ancient Tea-Horse Road"was almost across the western frontier of China. In the old times, the little passage between Tibet and the outside world was formed by long-time stamping of people and stocks. In the 7th Century, Tubo emerged in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. They built an iron bridge which connected Yunnan and Tibet on the Jinsha River over the board of China and Myanmar. In Song Dynasty, due to the fact that all borders were lost and no trade was possible,main market for the tea-horse trading moved to southwest ChinaMore...
Culture of Tea-horse Road
The Ancient Tea-Horse Road is an important thread of natural and cultural tourism. Natural wonders, civilization heritage, marks of ancient ethnic customs and countless romantic stories are spread along the Road. It is a sediment of history which contains traces of people's activities over thousands of years and their persistence to life. The Ancient Tea-Horse Road stretches through the ethnic corridor area across Sichuan, Yunnan, Gansu, Qinghai and Tibet. This area is the place where many ethnic groups have been living and multiplying, also a big platform on which they have put on comedies and tragedies in the historyMore...
Attractions on Tea-horse Road
The ancient Tea-horse Road winds through China's vast west area, along which are diverse tourist resources including a wide variety of widelife, colorful ethinic culture, splendid imperial monuments and religious traces. From south to north on the way you will find:
Xishuangbanna | Pu'er | Tengchong | Dali | Lijiang | Deqin
Ya'an | Luding | Kanding | Nyingchi | Chamdo | Lhasa
Tea-horse Road Tours
Traveling along the Ancient Tea-Horse Road is a trip to return to the nature, a trip of the harmony between men and the nature, a trip of spiritual neutralization for urban people, and a trip of adventure and discovery.
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