The Silk Road
November 28th 2009 These days you don't have to be an adventurer like Marco Polo to travel China's Silk Road. It is a chain of cities and towns linked by road, rail and sometimes air services. But it is still and adventure to travel it. I spent two weeks on just one of its many routes, from Xi'an in the east, to Kashgar in the west.
The plan was simple: from Hong Kong take a bus to Shenzhen, fly to Xi'an, ta
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