Retracing the South Overland Silk Road via the Himalayas

Jointly organized by Tibet Tourism Chamber of Commerce and Nepal Tourism Chamber of Commerce, the large international drive team who will retrace the south overland silk road has arrived at Lhasa on September 10th, 2016.

The campaign, co-sponsored by "One Belt and One Road" Network Media Alliance and Chongqing News Net, was initiated on September 5th. The drive team will overland from Lhasa to Kathmandu via the Himalayas and then go back to Tibet from Nepal along the same path. The whole event will take 20 days and cover a total distance of about 2,500 kilometers. Many places of interest can be appreciated en route, such as Yanjing Scenic Spot, the first stop of Tea Horse Road, Potala Palace and so on.

Retracing the South Overland Silk Road via the Himalayas

This activity has two lines. The southern route starts from Shangri-la, Yunnan and the northern route from Nagqu, Tibet. All the media reporters and self-driving participants will take part in Tibet-Nepal Tourism Promotion and China-Nepal-India Tourism Culture Summit Forum once getting to Lhasa.

“One Belt and One Road” refers to the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road. After OBAOR put forward, retracing the south overland silk road was launched, aiming to construct "the silk road economic belt" altogether. The south silk road passing through Sichuan and Yunnan was an ancient international channel, which links China, Burma, India and extends to southeast Asia, west Asia and other European countries. Together with the northwest silk road and maritime silk road, it's also considered as the important passage for economical and cultural communication between the west and the east.

In addition, we have learned that CNY 1000 of every traveler expenses will be donated to Shigatse Gyirong Elementary School for supporting local education. This campaign also gives concern to Kathmandu post-disaster reconstruction. Participants can give voluntary donations and make contributions to reconstruction of Nepal.