Silk Road 2017

Today we drive 400 km to Turpan with a visit to the Astana ancient tombs and the flaming mountain on the way. It is very […]

Today we drive 400 km to Hami and as we leave Dunhuang it’s already starting to feel quite warm. We drive through the Hami desert […]

Our alarm goes off at 5 am and we drag ourselves out of bed, dress and walk back to the sand dunes as the gates […]

Today we have a 400 km drive to Dunhuang and Shiraz is the lead car, so instead of Kay sitting in Burgundy with Tony, she […]

Today we have a 230 km drive to Jiayuguan on the highway. We have the snow capped Qilian mountains to our left and a barren […]

This morning we have a smooth departure out of the city of Xining with a 340 km drive to Zhangye mostly on “G” roads which […]

Today we have a 330 km drive to Xining with a lunch stop at Ta er Monastery or Kumbum Monastery which is a Tibetan Buddhist […]

Tianshui is a medium size city of about 5 million people but driving out this morning it seems much larger. Like all Chinese cities there […]

On the drive out of Xi’an we stop at a monument to the Silk Road that marks the starting point.  The monument is quite large […]

We get to have a lie in this morning as our bus departs the hotel at 9 am to take us to the Great Wild […]