What route should I take to travel to Tibet?

South section of Sichuan-Tibet line (with beautiful natural scenery)

Sichuan-Tibet Line 3 18 is a part of National Highway 3 18, which is the "landscape avenue of China people". It starts in Chengdu, passes through xinduqiao, Kangding, Litang and Linzhi, and ends in Lhasa, Tibet.

Compared with other routes into Tibet, the elevation of the 3 18 Sichuan-Tibet line is more suitable for people to rest, with more beautiful scenery and more perfect tourist reception facilities. It is the most suitable scenic avenue for people to travel by car among the six routes into Tibet. Many travelers believe that crossing the 3 18 Sichuan-Tibet line once is equivalent to understanding Tibet. In fact, this kind of cognition is wrong.

In the eyes of senior Tibetan travelers, crossing the 3 18 Sichuan-Tibet line is only the level of pediatrics. When a person walks far enough in Tibetan areas and takes wider steps, what awaits him is a more unique, distinctive and challenging Tibetan tourist route.

Northern section of Sichuan-Tibet line (human landscape)

3 17 Sichuan-Tibet line and 3 18 Sichuan-Tibet line * * together constitute the Sichuan-Tibet highway. As shown in the following figure, the route of Chengdu via Luhuo, Ganzi, Changdu, Dingqing and Baqing is 3 17 Sichuan-Tibet North Line and the south line is 3 18 Sichuan-Tibet South Line. Compared with the southern part of the crowded Sichuan-Tibet line, the road conditions on the Sichuan-Tibet line are more magnificent and sparsely populated.

If the 3 18 Nanchuan Tibetan Line is a landscape avenue that can purify people's souls, then the 3 17 Beichuan Tibetan Line is a humanistic avenue that allows people to see past lives. In terms of scenery, the 3 17 Sichuan-Tibet line may not be as good as the 3 18 Sichuan-Tibet line, but the human landscape along the 3 17 Sichuan-Tibet line is more diverse.

Yunnan-Tibet line (humanity and scenery coexist)

The 2 14 Yunnan-Tibet line starts from Kunming, Yunnan, passes through Dali, Lijiang, Shangri-La, Mangkang and Linzhi, and coincides with the 3 18 Sichuan-Tibet line in Mangkang County, Tibet, and ends in Lhasa, Tibet. The Yunnan-Tibet line is characterized by the charming cultural customs of Old Town of Lijiang and Shangri-La, as well as the magnificent scenery of Bomi and Mangkang sections in Tibet.

Third-party detection (difficult and challenging)

Because it passed through Bingzhongluo-ChaHuarong-Chayu, netizens affectionately called it Bingzhongluo-ChaHuarong. Iced tea is the most challenging route to Tibet. The quicksand section, falling rocks section and cliff section along the way are thrilling. The route is unstable in geology and easy to loosen, and it will be unforgettable once by car.

It is not worth showing off how many times you have crossed other routes in Tibet, but as long as you have crossed iced tea once, you must be a real Tibetan tourist god.

Qinghai-Tibet line (magnificent scenery)

The conventional tourist route is "Sichuan into Qingye", that is, from the Sichuan-Tibet line of 3 18 to Tibet, and then from the Qinghai-Tibet line of 109. 109 The Qinghai-Tibet Line starts from Xining, passes through Qinghai Lake, Chaka Salt Lake, No Man's Land in Hoh Xil, Golmud, Namco, Tanggula Pass and other scenic spots, and ends in Lhasa.

Compared with the Sichuan-Tibet line, the Qinghai-Tibet line filters out cliffs, valleys and forests, and takes Gobi desert and yellow sand as landscapes. Although the scenery has lost its beautiful and amazing parts, it looks more majestic, vast and atmospheric.

New Tibet Line (high altitude and magnificent scenery)

2 19 Xinzang Line is a legendary line, almost all of which is Gobi Desert, with high altitude and bad climate, which tests people's viability in extreme environment. Among the six routes into Tibet, abandoned vehicles on the roadside of the new Tibet line can be seen almost everywhere. The new Tibet line starts from Yecheng, Xinjiang, passes through Gangrenboqi, Mabian Yongcuo and Ali no-man's land along the way, and ends in Lhasa, Tibet (some donkey friends also extend the end point to Lhasa).

The only tourist route in Tibet that can be compared with the New Tibet Line is iced tea. The detailed difference between the two is that the interrogation is a challenging cross-country self-driving, while the 2 19 new Tibet line is a long leap in no man's land.

The average elevation of the 2 19 new Tibet line is 4,500 meters, and there are no cell phone signals in many barren places, almost all of which are beaches next to the yellow sand. Although there are green mountains and green waters, the steep cliffs stand upright and it is full of challenges to drive.