{"id":6291,"date":"2021-09-08T21:37:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T13:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/?p=6291"},"modified":"2021-09-09T09:47:19","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T01:47:19","slug":"zhangmu-port-zhangmu-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/tibet-travel\/zhangmu-travel-tibet-travel\/zhangmu-port-zhangmu-town","title":{"rendered":"Zhangmu Port & Zhangmu Town (Tips, Photos & Maps)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Plan your Tibet travel<\/a>? If you want to visit Tibet from Nepal or visit Nepal from Tibet, Zhangmu Town, the Chinese border town between Tibet and Nepal, is the port of entry you must pass through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Zhangmu Tow is located 120km from Kathmandu, 817km from Lhasa. (Google)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Zhangmu Town is under the administration of Nyalam County of Shigatse in Tibet. Zhangmu Town is situated along a single narrow zigzag mountain road at the sea level of 2300m. It is about 120km from Kathmandu Nepal, 736km from Lhasa and 30km from Nyalam Town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nyalam Town \u2013 Zhangmu Town 30km<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We drove from Nyalam Towm at the altitude of 3500m down to Zhangmu town at 2300m. So in the short distance of 30km, we had to descend over 1000m at the sea level. The 30km National Highway 318 driving took us one hour. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We drove from Nyalam Town at the sea level of 3500m down to Zhangmu town at 2300m.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The road was very steep and zigzag. The views of the mountains on both sides of the road are amazing, tall and ancient trees, campher trees, water falls downpouring from the high mountains. It is an unforgetable road trip in our Tibet tour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zhangmu Town<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Actually the town of Zhangmu is built on the hillsides with the single zigzag street ( aka Highway G318) . Viewed from a distance, the town looks like a fairly big mountain town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Viewed from a distance, Zhangmu Town looks like a fairly big mountain town. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The long, narrow and zigzag street is very busy and packed with street front houses, apartments, restaurants, stores, inns, hotels and trucks loading and downloading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We were all shocked by the crowded trucks, mainly from Nepal for transportation service loading and downloading, and waiting for the checkpoint or customs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The downtown of Zhangmu Town<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The long queue makes the narrow street even much narrower. We had a little worry about the traffic since our tour group would have to pass throug the port and enter Nepal before 6:00pm. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not soon our worry seemed unnecessary. All the drivers, taxis, trucks, tourist buses, vans, and cars have the tacit understanding on how to give way for the traffic at the highest efficiency without a traffic policeman!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zhangmu Town \u2013 Zhangmu Port (\u6a1f\u6728\u53e3\u5cb8\uff0910km<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Now we left the downtown of Zhangmu Town and continued to drive from Zhangmu Town to Zhangmu Port \uff08\u6a1f\u6728\u53e3\u5cb8\uff09. The 10km road was a drive test for our driver who also came here for fist time. The Nepalese trucks lined up by the side the road, making the narrow road a single way! Again most of the drivers here had the skill and patience to move the traffic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Zhangmu Port (\u6a1f\u6728\u53e3\u5cb8 )<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Zhangmu Port was very busy and teemed with all kinds of people, tourists, businessmen, vendors and Currency exchange scalpers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Nepalese houses down below viewed from Zhangmu Port<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Nepal is just a bridge away across the friendship bridge. We could clearly see the houses on the mountain side below us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zhangmu Travel Tips <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

1. Be ready for the worse traffic at Zhangmu
2. Having enough time for the transfer at Zhangmu
3. There are some nice hotels and inns at Zhangmu Town
4. You also can stay overnight at Nyalam Town, 30km from Zhangmu
5. Get ready for passports, visa, Tibet Travel Permit and Alien Travel Permit
6. Zhangmu taxi: RMB10
7. No shuttle bus from Zhangmu to Lhasa
8.\u00a0Hitchhike a return bus or van to Shigatse or Lhasa<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hassle-free Lhasa & Tibet Guided Tours<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

If you don\u2019t want to go the do-it-yourself route and prefer the hassle-free escorted tours, here are some options for guided tours to Lhasa and Tibet:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lhasa Tour<\/a>
Tibet Travel<\/a>
Lhasa Tibet Group Tour<\/a>
Lhasa Tibet Private Tour<\/a>
Beijing Lhasa Tour<\/a>
Lhasa China Tour<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Further Readings<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Best Time to Visit Lhasa<\/a>
Top 10 Attractions in Lhasa<\/a>
Lhasa Tourist Traps, Tourist Scams Lhasa<\/a>
Where to stay in Lhasa<\/a>
Makye Ame Lhasa Restaurant \u2013 Your Kitchen in Lhasa<\/a>
Lhasa Airport, Lhasa Gonggar Airport<\/a>
Xian Lhasa Flight Experience, Xian Lhasa Flight<\/a>
Lhasa Railway Station Transportation, Taxi, Public Bus<\/a>
Get around in Lhasa with Pedicab or Trishaw<\/a>
lhasa Taxi<\/a>
Best Places to Take Picture of Potala Palace Lhasa<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

4-Wheel Drive Trip from Lhasa to Ranwu<\/a>
Tips for Visiting Drak Yerpa (Tips, Photos & Map)<\/a>
The Pilgrim Kora in Lhasa, Lhasa Pilgrim circuits<\/a>
How to Visit Sera Monastery in Lhasa<\/a>
Beijing Road in Lhasa<\/a>
Lhasa River in the City of Lhasa (Tips, Photos & Map)<\/a>
Lhasa Great Mosque, the Mosques in Lhasa<\/a>
Lhasa Yamdrok-Tso Lake Road Trip<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Qushui Bridge in Qushui County, Tibet (Tips, Photos & Map)<\/a>
Nagarz\u00ea County and Scenic Road Trip to Gyantse<\/a>
Gyantse County and Road Trip to Shigatse<\/a>
Shigatse Trip (Tips, Photos & Map)<\/a>
Shigatse Lhatse Tingri Road Trip<\/a>
Drive from Tingri to Mt.Everest Base Camp<\/a>
Gangkar Town ( Gangga Town ), Tingri County<\/a>
Tingri County \uff08Tips, Photos & Maps\uff09<\/a>
Nyalam Town & Nyalam County (Tips, Photos & Maps)<\/a>
Zhangmu Port & Zhangmu Town (Tips, Photos & Maps)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Any questions, just drop a line.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Plan your Tibet travel? If you want to visit Tibet from Nepal or visit Nepal from Tibet, Zhangmu Town, the Chinese border town between Tibet and Nepal, is the port of entry you must pass through. Zhangmu Town is under the administration of Nyalam County of Shigatse in Tibet. Zhangmu Town is situated along a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1383],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-zhangmu-travel-tibet-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6291"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27289,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6291\/revisions\/27289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}