Astana Graves

On the Silk Road

---

October 7th 2007
After the rainy Xi'an , I headed West toward Urumqi, capital of the Xinjiang Province and home of the Uighur minority. As I foze my butt off in Tian Chi lake in the Tian Shan Mountain range, as soon as I could I left toward the much warmer and sunnier Turpan. I have seen some pretty awesome desert village ruins from the 4th and 7th centuries and some 1200 years old mummies pretty well preserved ... read more

Asia » China

---

For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more