My Nepal Diary - VIII - Salt route

My Nepal Diary - VIII

Salt route

Much of the geographic territory now recognized as Nepal formerly consisted of a number of small hill states and petty kingdoms, the state of Lo among them. Lo was the gateway to one of the easier pass routes to Tibet, and its kings grew rich collecting taxes on the trade of salt and wool from Tibet, and tea, rice, and other goods from what is now southern Nepal and from India. 

http://library.brown.edu/cds/BuddhistTempleArt/history.html

 Route to Lo - searching for Salt - Building up of an excitement to see the pala style painting in the Lo monastery. All this excitement just before 24 hours....We pass though all the village Trade route gates.