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The Silk Road
Follow in the footsteps of ancient traders on the legendary Silk Road, Explore the sights of ...
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The name alone promises an unparalleled adventure: loosely translated, it means 'place of no return'. As the local story goes, the desert was created by God for the imprisonment of a local Turcic man's youngest daughter, who lost the key to a great house of treasure, given to the people by God. Already inhabited at least 4000 years ago by the Tocharians, the vast numbers of mummies discovered in the region show that Turkic, Chinese, Mongol and Tibetan peoples also resided here at different times in the smattering of oasis towns which punctuate a desert made up almost completely of stormy, shifting sand. Ancient Buddhist cities and temples containing priceless artefacts skirt the edges, most notably the carved grottoes at Dunhuang, labelled by archaeologists as the greatest single source of Buddhist art in the world.
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15 days (Group tour) from £1460
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Taklamakan Desert
