Silk Road and trans-Himalayan – the end of an epic journey

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We have come the end of our three month long journey starting from Qatar,  completing two major ancient trade routes the Silk Road where we started at Iran (Persia) and ended up in Western China, and the trans-Himalayan trade route continuing in China and heading south to India.

We have learnt a lot about the Persian empire and experienced the great extent of it along the Silk Road, with influences all the way in India. The trans-Himalayan route elevated us to the highest we had been with glimpses of Mount Everest.

Click on the markers below to find links to blog posts with further details of the amazing journey.

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Related posts:

  1. How high did we go? – Journey through Tibet and the Himalayan mountain range
  2. Our journey home, via Central Asia
  3. Kashgar (Kashi), China
  4. Karakol, Kyrgyzstan to Kashgar, China
  5. Xining, Qinghai to Lhasa, Tibet railway, China