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