Culture of Ancient Tea-horse Road

The Ancient Tea-Horse Road is an important thread of natural and cultural tourism in Chamdo area. 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 history. It is a cultural treasury for ever-lasting exploration and for us to spend our thoughts on.

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.

The tourist development for the Ancient Tea-Horse Road is a comprehensive one. Priorities are given to the construction of infrastructure, such as transportation facilities, hotels to provide proper food and accommodation, guaranteed electricity and water supply and safety. Meanwhile, much effort will be put into developing tourist products so as to fuel the growth of other industries and to activate Chamdo economy.

In Chamdo area, there are sceneries like “Three-Rivers-Join-Into-One”, high mountains and valleys, holy mountains and sacred waters, thermal resources and hot springs, grazing lands covered by wild flowers, tents emitting cooking smoke; so are there ancient religious ceremonies, Lamaist temples and towers, old religious engravings on mountains, ancient giant wall-paintings, and colorful local conditions and customs. All these are rich natural and cultural tourist resources.