Summary:
The Ancient Tea and Horse Caravan Road is known as one of the most beautiful and the roughest routes in the world. This route boasts of its diverse and grand nature protected as UNESCO’s world natural heritage site, and also act as the complicated intersection of culture, religion, language and people. Being the world’s oldest trade route, it was opened 200 years prior to the Silk Road for trading Chinese finest tea with Tibetan horse, but other products passed along it as well. The 2700 km trading route begins from Sichuan and Yunnan provinces in Southwest China, and over the Himalayas to Tibet, Myanmar and India. KBS investigates on the revival of the Ancient Asian Corridor.
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