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A 2012 trip along the ancient Silk Road route in northwest China. This trip was sponsored by the Sierra Club.
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ACROSS CHINA ON THE SILK ROADA Sierra Club Trip
September 2012
From the east end of the Great Wall
To where it fades into the western desert
Our Group
What’s the silk road?
Map
Xi’anLanzhou
JiayuguanDunhaung
Urumqi
Kashgar Beijing
Xi’an – the home of the Terra Cotta Warriors
Big Wild Goose Pagoda (yr 647)
And spectacular Tang Dynasty art (yr 618-907)
Lanzhou on the Yellow River
Binglingsi Grottoes
The Gobi
Remnants of the Han Dynasty Great Wall (c 100 BC)
Process Improvement
Solar Powered Prayer Wheel
Xian
Dunhuang
The Magao Caves
The Edge of the
Civilization
Map
Dunhaung
Urumqi
KashgarTaklamakan Desert
Gobi
Kashgar and the Uighur People
minarets
Kashgar’s Old City
The Uighur People
And Other central asian cultures –TajikKyrgyzUzbekEtc.
The Sunday Animal Market
The Karakorum Highway
Lake karakul (11,000 ft)and Mustagh ata
The End!
Map
Xi’anLanzhou
JiayuguanDunhaung
Urumqi
Kashgar Beijing
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