A trek through Yunnan’s Gaoligong Mountains on a 1,000-year-old road that carries more donkeys than vehicles
Wang Wenxin, my 61-year-old guide, slows to a halt.
The midday sun is now high in the sky and we have already been walking for five hours, sometimes following clear signs of the 1,000-year-old paved road, at other times carefully trying to trace the correct route among the trees and streams.
It's not an easy task.
Once an important supply route for caravans of mules carrying exotic goods to and from southwestern China, the ancient trail we have been following for close to a week through Yunnan’s Gaoligong Mountains has long been superseded by other roads.
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