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The road less travelled is where you find abundant joy.
SILK ROAD
The Silk Roads evoke glorious days of past, mirages of exotic locales, and extraordinary tales - a far-cry from the grim reality most of the merchants experienced. These interconnected series of ancient routes are the veins of the world where peoples, faiths, and countries are intricately blended together. Rulers and explorers, from Genghis Khan to Marco Polo, were captivated by these syntheses. The Silk Roads are also the passageway from East to West, and it is here where both sides of the world dramatically clash to form a truly unique landscape where innovations thrived. It is also here where civilizations and religions have formed, setting the blueprint to our ever so complex modern world. The Silk Roads are not just remote corners of the globe, forgotten and unimportant. Rather, the Silk Roads are perhaps the center of our complex globalization. The landscape of our planet would look vastly different if merchants, nomads, nobles, and explorers did not traverse the thousands of miles for hundreds of years. It's perplexing how such an important part of history can be so often overlooked.
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Donkey karts and camels replace trains, lamb skewers replace dumplings, ancient ruins and forgotten caves dot the landscape, and harsh environments coexist with hospitable people.
An overview of our journey through Xinjiang, China's far western and remote region. Through the highs and lows of this journey, we learned to ultimately expect the unexpected.
Turpan is situated in a blazing environment 500 feet below sea level. The Uyghur people here are a wonderful people that deserve to be treated in an equally wonderful way.
Not many places around the world has ancient sites and structures around every corner, as it seems in Turpan. Read of our visit to their historic sites from the Silk Road.
The Karakoram Highway, consistently regarded as one of earth's most spectacular and dangerous journeys, proved more spectacular than advertised
Kasgar,the Pearl of the Silk Road, still retains its ancient charm, where vendors, marketplaces, and bazaars are bustling and selling everything from hand-made trinkets to intricate knives.
Zhangye, formerly Campichu in Marco Polo's travels, is the hometown of Kublai Khan and now an abode to forbidding sand dunes and a geological wonder, the rainbow danxia hills.
Currently the capital of Ningxia and formerly the capital of the Xia Kingdom. This kingdom was wiped out from history from the mongols; what remains are remnants of what once was.
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