EDITOR’SNOTE:AlthoughSwedishexplorerSvenHedinventuredintoNgarifromXinjiangin1902,theregionremainsmysteriousandunknowntotheoutsideworld.ThispromptedtheStateCulturalRelicsBureauandtheCulturalRelicstosendateamintoNgarialongtheLhasa-Ngari-Yecheng(Xinjiang)route.ThepurposewastoexploretheZhangzhungCivilizationthatexistedpriortotheGugeKingdom.Accordingtolegend,ZadaintheXianquanheRiverValleyisthecentralpartoftheZhangzhungKingdom,whichwassoformidablethatthekingdomwaspidedintoInternal,CentralandExternalZhangzhungandInternalZangzhungalonecoveredpresent-dayNgariandLadakh.Thiswriterwasoneoftheteammembers.
