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Travel: Scenic route still drives adventurers
The 5,476-kilometer national highway, 318, connects Shanghai, to Shigatse, Tibet autonomous region. Going through the Sichuan basin and Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the section connecting Chengdu, Sichuan province, to Lhasa (more than 2,100 kilometers) was opened in 1954 and was at the time considered the most beautiful as well as the most dangerous highway in the world.
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