  On July 5, 2001, a team of Chinese archeologists is ready to start from the Potala Palace square in Lhasa, where the altitude is 3,600 meters. In the next 20 days. These archeologists will travel more than 3,000 kilometers westward and explore the lost Guge culture in the Ngari region in Tibet. This is the first time for the National Administration of culture heritage of PRC to sponsor such a large-scale archeological investigation.
 
The team starts from Lhasa, goes through Xigatsa and Burang, and arrives in Tsada, where the Guge ruins is located. More than half of the journey is between the Himalaya and Kangdese mountains, where the average altitude is more than 4,000 meters.
The Tubo and Shang-Shung cultures comprise the largest part of the Tibetan culture. The Potala Palace and the Jokhang Temple represent the Tubo culture during the Sakyamuni period, which occurred during the Tang dynasty.
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