You heard of it, but really, what was it? The Ancient Tea Horse Road was not a single road, and it was hardly a road at all! It was a vast, ever-changing network of mountain trails, caravan routes, market towns, and passes connecting Yunnan and Sichuan in China, passing through Tibet, Nepal, India, and other parts of South Asia. Even the name Tea Horse Road is a modern construct, because the different sections and routes had different names. Tea and horses, and many other goo

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