The Sichuan-Tibet Highway Travel Guide — the G318 dream road - Luding’s iron bridge, the Zheduo and Kela passes, Litang’s high city, the Ranwu mirror and the road to Lhasa
The Sichuan-Tibet Highway - the G318 south line from Chengdu to Lhasa - is the most famous road journey in China: about 2,150 km of river gorges, iron bridges, snow passes, high grasslands and lake mirrors, climbing from 500 m in the Chengdu plain to over 5,000 m on the passes of the Hengduan and Himalaya ranges. The classic route runs Chengdu - Ya'an - Luding - Kangding - Xinduqiao - Litang - Batang - the Jinsha River into Tibet - Zuogong - Ranwu - Bomi - Tongmai - Lulang - Nyingchi - Lhasa, and the field guide's ten-day plan is the standard first crossing: the 'photo corridor' of Xinduqiao, the 'world high city' of Litang at 4,014 m, the mirror lakes of Ranwu, the glacier valleys of Midui and Bomi, the old Tongmai sky-road, and the forest-sea of Lulang before the final descent to the Yarlung Tsangpo and Lhasa. This guide carries the passes, towns, food, guesthouses and road rules from the field guide, so you can plan the drive yourself or have our team arrange the permits, jeeps and hotels end to end.
