Tangfan Ancient Path

Next to National Highway 318, you can pass a place called Taizhao Ancient City, and the ancient city ruins have long disappeared, leaving only a village called Taizhao Village. There used to be a tea horse ancient road station and cable bridge, the station is not there, the cable bridge and the bridge head fortress are still there, but it is estimated that people repaired it later. People often think of Yunnan, Lijiang... In fact, that is the starting point, Tibet is the other end. This is called the Tang Dynasty Ancient Road, Tang, referring to the Tang Dynasty country, Yu, is the name of Tibet in the past Tuyu. The river under the bridge is fast, clear, and choppy. The end is the Yarlung Zangbo River, and the river is called the Niyang River. Here, the tourist bus will make a short stay, drink water and toilet. In the picture, Tibetans make barley cakes, the practice is very original, the butter tea is very delicious, I drank a cup, 5 yuan. The toilet here is 2 yuan per person. Crossing the bridge is 5 yuan per person. There are trees on the mountain here, no longer like the Mira Pass, just growing low shrubs.

2016-03-08 Lhasa to Nyingchi, via Tangyu Ancient Road

The Tangyu Ancient Road is today's 214 National Road. It is the road to Tibet 1300 years ago. The Tangyu Ancient Road is the traffic road between the Tang Dynasty and Tubo. It is a very famous road in ancient history of China. It is also the Central Plains since the Tang Dynasty to Qinghai, Tibet and even Nepal. The only way to go to countries such as India. The famous princess Wencheng married the Tubu king Songzan Ganbu on this road. It has been formed and smoothed for more than 1300 years.