12 DAYS SILK ROAD JOURNEY: XI'AN - DUNHUANG - TURPAN - URUMQI - KASHGAR - TASHKURGAN
12 Days travelling along the Silk Road from Xi'an to Kashgar, the most western region of China before traders crossed the border.
2 international flights
2 domestic flights
4 hours of bullet train ride
20hrs of car/bus ride
20 mins of Camel ride
Coldest temperature: 6 degree Celsius
Hottest temperature: 35 degrees Celsius
Lowest elevation: 154m below sea level
Highest elevation: 3600m above sea level
This is a summary of the trip, and I'll upload a detailed video of the journey soon.
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August 2011 tour of China. Highlights include the Forbidden City in Beijing and nearby Great Wall; Urumqi in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region; Gaochang ruins in Turpan; Crescent Lake and camel rides in Dunhuang; Terra Cotta Warriors in Xian; Zhangjaijie National Park, China's first national park; water town of Zhujiajiao near Shanghai; and the Bund in Shanghai.
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Travel in China E02 My Journey on the Silk Road 游走中国 第二集 我的丝路
This is the 2nd episode of the documentary series Travel in China 游走中国 is a travel documentary that retraces the route taken by ancient Chinese people. The film crew drove along the ancient Silk Road from Xi’an to Tianshui, Lanzhou, Zhangye, Dunhuang and the Jiayu Pass. During the Han Dynasty (206 BCE-220 CE), Zhang Qian expanded the Road for imperial envoys and thus contributed to a giant leap in relations between China and countries in Central Asia. The production team traveled thousands of miles through the provinces of Shanxi and Gansu as well as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, exploring the history of this ancient road and documenting its new look. This documentary examines a possible driving route for foreign visitors and serves as a promotional film for road trips in China.
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Dunhuang: The oasis city on the Silk Road and Mogao Caves
Join Travelogue presenter Tianran He on a journey to one of the most important oasis cities on the Silk Road: Dunhuang. There, he feels the weight of history at the world-famous Mogao Caves, an immense complex of grottoes threatened with being swallowed up by the dunes, and experiences Dunhuang’s unique desert cuisine and way of life.
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CHINA - THE SILK ROAD
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The Silk Road is the world's oldest, and most historically important overland trade route. For over 2000 years, traders and merchants travelled the deserts of central Asia exchanging goods between the Chinese empire and the rest of the world. As a result, the oases of the desert sprang up into dynamic cities. A vast network of interconnected caravan routes that stretched for over 6,500 klm enabled the exchange of products and ideas between China and the rest of the world. The Silk Road began around 329 BCE, when Alexander the Great conquered the entire known world and promoted trade to the east and got its name from the lucrative Chinese silk trade along it. Though silk was certainly the major trade item from China, many other goods were traded, and various technologies, religions and philosophies. The great story of the Silk Road is that Buddhism travelled on it, from India.
The dry climate has preserved many ruins, while many ethnic groups make their home in this part of China. The Ancient Silk Road started at Xian and then it reached Dunhuang, where it divided into three, the Southern, Central and the Northern Route. The pictures in this video start in Xian and cover the northern route. Xian is one of the oldest cities of China with more than 3,100 years of history. It is home to the Terracotta Army of Emperor Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China. The terracotta warriors, is a form of funerary art buried with the emperor in 210--209 BC and whose purpose was to protect him in his afterlife. Lanzhou is the next stop. 100km SE on the Yellow River, are the Bingling Temple Caves. The first begun around 420 CE at the end of the Western Jin Dynasty. Work continued and more grottoes were added during the Wei, Sui, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties. Their inaccessibility spared them from destruction during the Cultural Revolution, while an 80-foot Buddha is carved into the cliff. Dunhuang is located between the Taklamakan desert and Gobi desert. Taklamakan is the world's second largest shifting sand desert after Sahara. The Mogao caves, also called Thousand Buddha caves (the first was carved in 366AD) have the best Buddhist murals in the world. In Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region, China's largest province with only 20 million inhabitants, we visit Turpan, Urumqi and Kashgar. Turpan's, Flaming Mountains, the hottest place in China, overshadow the cradle of the Turpan ancient civilization and oasis agriculture. Here we see the Gaochang city ruins, the former Uyghur capital (1st c BC) and the ancient Buddhist city of GaoHe Kerez (2nd c. BC). Urumqi is the capital of Xinjiang and once an important station on the Silk Road, famous for being a major city furthest from any ocean. Kashgar, or Kashi, is a city with a history of more than 2,000 years. It was historically considered as the gateway and hub for the transfer of goods from China to Central Asia and Europe along the ancient Silk Road. Kashgar preserves the most complete Uygur culture, art and architecture and is famous for its bazaar and animal market. Starting in Beijing, The Great Wall of China is a series of fortifications made of stone, brick, tamped earth, to protect the Chinese Empire against the enemies, while its border controls allowed the imposition of duties of goods transported along the Silk Road. The entire wall with all its branches measure 21,000 klm. Several walls were being built as early as the 7th century BC. Beijing is the capital of the People's Republic of China. The city's history dates back three millennia. As the last of the Four Great Ancient Capitals of China, Beijing has been the political center of the country and is renowned for its palaces, temples, gardens, tombs, walls gates and art treasures.
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2004-05-12: Part A: China Tour: Silk Road: Dunhuang
2004-05-12: Part A: China Tour: Silk Road: Dunhuang ( en route to Mingshashan, Yueyaquan ( camel back ride
Historic Silk Road oasis Dunhuang being swallowed by desert sands in northwest China
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For more than 2,000 years, Dunhuang in China's northwestern Gansu province was known as a pearl of the ancient Silk Road – famous for its oasis with a crescent-shaped lake and “singing sand” dunes.
But today, Dunhuang is under threat from the expanding Kumtag Desert. Experts say without urgent efforts to protect Dunhuang, the city which continues to have great importance for archaeology and tourism, could disappear in 50 years.
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China Trip 2018 - Silk Road : Bukit Mingsa (4K)
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Urumqi to Shanghai Silk Road trip, part 2. Dunhuang
The beautiful little silk road town of Dunhuang. We visit the Mingsha Mountain, take a camel ride there. The Mogao Caves, Crescent Lake, and the Shazhou Night Market. Great little place to stop along the silk road, plan for at least a few days. Friendly and Cheap.
Silk Road W China Turpan and Urumqi
The hottest places, some below sea level in NW China. Part of our trek across the Xingyang province along the Silk Road.
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Mogao Caves (UNESCO World Heritage Site) in Dunhuang
From Jiayuguan, Max and I skated to the train station to go straight to Dunhuang, a frontier town at the western end of the Hexi Corridor. From this area, facing west, the Silk Road split into the Northern and Southern Silk Roads. Back in the day, Dunhuang can be considered the western most part of the Silk Road that was occupied by the Chinese. (It was also frequently conquered and occupied by other groups.) This is also the final stop of our road trip, but there are many landmarks in and around Dunhuang so our adventure continues for another few days. The first landmark that we visit is the Mogao Caves, a UNESCO World Heritage site. We rode the shuttle bus in and came out using the Backfire Ranger X1 electric skateboards. All episodes:
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Daniel Kwan and Max Huang from Shanghai flew to Gansu Province to explore Ancient China's portion of the Silk Road using two Backfire Ranger X1 electric skateboards. This 2-week road trip was sponsored by Backfire Skateboards.
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10 Days China Silk Road Tour - Year 1999 !
It's a amazing tour and unforgettable experience......
13 years ago..... Silk Road should be changed alot !!
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The Silk Road, what a wonderful name of poetic and historic interest.
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The Silk Road, starting from Xian, China in ancient times, ran through Asia, and connected Europe and Africa, like a crisscrossing vein.
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Along the ancient road, China's silk, lacquerware, chinaware, the technology of papermaking, printing, gunpowder, and iron smelting were introduced to the West, while flora, fur, precious fowls, rare animals, and music, dance, dramas, scientific knowledge and religious culture were introduced from the West to the East.
SILK ROAD - CHINA
HERE WE GO! This is a travel music video of my journey along China's epic Silk Road in December 2016. Please give it a thumbs up, share and subscribe!
Most of the footage is captured with a DJI Phantom Drone and the rest with either Canon DSLR or iPhone.
The route started in Lanzhou, Gansu province and then westwards to Urumqi mostly by high-speed train. The video loosely follows this route chronologically; so hopefully you'll enjoy being somewhat informed too! Any questions about these places, please ask.
---Lanzhou - One of China's largest cities
---Zhangye - Home to wetlands, plains, desert and mountains; we visited Binggou Canyon and Danxia rainbow mountains.
---Jiayuguan - site of the western most point of The Great Wall of China and Jiayuguan historic fort.
---Dunhuang - Here, the first spring - a crescent moon shaped oasis in the middle of a huge range of desert sand dunes.
---Turpan - Wine country! (Well, grapes).. and the epic flaming mountains, Turpan has one of the oldest underground irrigation systems which feeds water from the mountains to civilization.
---Urumqi - A huge sprawling city full of many ethnic minorities in China with very interesting food and a lot of police checks!
Obviously there were also a fair few small towns etc I don't know the name of. After this we went onto Georgia which will follow in a different video. Thanks for watching, love to all! X
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Music: Peking Duk ft. Nicole Millar - High