The Friendship Highway (otherwise called the China-Nepal Highway,Chinese: 中尼公路; pinyin: Zhongni Gonglu) is a 800-kilometer (500 mi) tourist detour associating the capital of Tibet, Lhasa, with the Chinese/Nepalese fringe at the Sino-Nepal Friendship Bridge amongst Zhangmu and Kodari. It incorporates the westernmost piece of China National Highway 318 (Shanghai-Zhangmu) and traverses 5,000m preceding dropping to 1,750m at the fringe.

The 2015 Earthquakes in the district shut the roadway and brought on numerous evacutaions.[1] By 2016 there was a few repairs however exchanging on the course was not reestablished to pre-shudder levels.[2]

From Lhasa, the Friendship Highway takes after the Kyi Chu stream for around 60 km up to the intersection with the Yarlung Tsangpo River (Brahmaputra) at Chushul. The principle course proceeds with the Yarlung valley up to Shigatse, Tibet’s second-biggest city and earlier the home of the Panchen Lamas. An auxiliary branch crosses the Yarlung Tsangpo at Chushul and crosses the 4,800m high Gampa La, goes along turquoise Yamdrok Yutso lake before intersection the 5,045m high Karo La at the foot of Noijin Kangsang, and taking after downstream the Nyang Chu valley through Gyantse up to Shigatse.