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The town has a history going back more than 800 years and was once a confluence for trade along the old tea horse road. The Lijiang old town is famous for its orderly system of waterways and bridges. The old town of Lijiang differs from other ancient Chinese cities in architecture, history and the culture of its traditional residents the matrilineal Naxi people.

The Ancient Tea Route (simplified Chinese: ????; traditional Chinese: ????) was a network of mule caravan paths winding through the mountains of Yunnan Province in Southwest China. It is also referred to as the Southern Silk Road and Tea and Horse Road. From around a thousand years ago, the Ancient Tea Route was a trade link from Yunnan, one of the first tea-producing regions: to India via Burma; to Tibet; and to central China via Sichuan Province.[1][2][3][4][5] In addition to tea, the mule caravans carried salt. People and horses carried heavy loads.

About the old tea horse route: The Ancient Tea Route was a network of mule caravan paths winding through the mountains of Yunnan Province in Southwest China. It is also referred to as the Southern Silk Road and Tea and Horse Road. From around a thousand years ago, the Ancient Tea Route was a trade link from Yunnan, one of the first tea-producing regions: to India via Burma; to Tibet; and to central China via Sichuan Province. In addition to tea, the mule caravans carried salt. People and horses carried heavy loads.It is believed that it was through this trading network that tea (typically tea bricks) first spread across China and Asia from its origins in Pu'er county, near Simao Prefecture in Yunnan.

The man is Woila, a Guide to the ancient remote (and now derelict) desert city of Essouk. It is a kilometre or so away from the small scattering of mud-buildings that make up today's village of Essouk. The City of Essouk has been derelict for several hundred years but is of great historical and archaeological importance. Until mediaeval times the Sahara was a thriving commercial region, and Essouk a trading and cultural centre. The city had a population of around 3,000 and served large trans-Saharan caravans (some with thousands of camels) carrying items such as gold, ivory, slaves and salt - and travellers - across the Sahara desert.