A 2012 trip along the ancient Silk Road route in northwest China. This trip was sponsored by the Sierra Club.

1. ACROSS CHINA ON THE SILK ROAD
A Sierra Club Trip
September 2012

2. From the east
end of the
Great Wall

3. To where it fades into the
western desert

4. Our Group

5. What’s the silk road?

6. Map
Urumqi
Kashgar Beijing
Dunhaung
Jiayuguan
Lanzhou
Xi’an

7. Xi’an – the home of the Terra
Cotta Warriors

10. Big Wild
Goose
Pagoda
(yr 647)

11. And spectacular Tang
Dynasty art (yr 618-907)

13. Lanzhou on
the Yellow
River

15. Binglingsi
Grottoes

19. The Gobi

23. Remnants of the Han Dynasty Great
Wall (c 100 BC)

26. Process
Improvement

27. Solar Powered Prayer Wheel

33. Xian

34. Dunhuang

38. The
Magao
Caves

43. The Edge of
the Civilization

44. Map
Urumqi
Gobi
Kashgar Dunhaung
Taklamakan
Desert

45. Kashgar and the Uighur
People

46. minarets

47. Kashgar’s Old City

54. The Uighur
People

55. And Other
central
asian
cultures –
Tajik
Kyrgyz
Uzbek
Etc.

68. The Sunday Animal Market

75. The Karakorum
Highway

76. Lake karakul (11,000 ft)
and Mustagh ata

77. The End!

78. Map
Urumqi
Kashgar Beijing
Dunhaung
Jiayuguan
Lanzhou
Xi’an