Historical Journey of Old Silk Route Tour

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Most preferably termed as the South West Silk Route Tour, this is one of the most ancient parts of the route. Directly engaged the Wuhan Province of China to Tibet and finally it comes to India and as far as Afghanistan. Interestingly, silk was not more than enough. Apart from most treasured item, Tea, Horse are also traded in this route. Chinese often referred this route as ancient road of tea and horses between Yunnan, Tibet and India. Benefit of this route is, this is the shortest route for Europe.

Hence, vendors are getting their shortest time for mass delivery. Other important items like route were sugar, salt, copper and cotton and unlike its counterparts in Central Asia, the caravans in this part of the South West Silk Route comprised horse caravans and not the Bactrian camel caravans.

THE ROOT OF OLD SILK ROUTE

There were further offshoots of this South West Silk Route Tour from Lhasa and Lanzhou which crossed the complete portion of Eastern Himalayas and reached Sikkim. On the route different High altitude passes other than Nathu La like Jelep La and Dhonka La. All these routes are surrounded by East Sikkim and finally moved to plains of Bengal. Here they bifurcated to various sea ports and trade centering routes on coastal Bay of Bengal like Tamluk in India, and Wari-Bateshwar, Bhitagarh, Mahasthangarh, Bikrampur and Sonargaon in present Bangladesh.

A major section of the South West Silk Route crossed Lhasa and entered India through Nathu La (Pass) from China border, whereas second the section of the route crossed Burma (Myanmar) and entered India through Assam (Kamrup-Kamakhya) & further to the sea ports of Bengal and present Bangladesh.
During recent times, this part of South West Silk Route Tour through Nathu La was mostly operated by the Lhasa Newars for the last 300 years. The Lhasa Newars were potential expatriate traders from Kathmandu Valley who traded in Tibet for centuries.

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