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Silk Road Adventure

The Route in Detail

Daily Reports

Pics Hong Kong

Pics China

Temple of Heaven

The Forbidden City

The Great Wall

Big Wild GoosePagoda

Xian + its City Wall

Great Mosque of Xian

The Terracotta Army

Lanzhou to Xiahe

Labrang Monastery

Binglingsi Caves

The Great Wall 2

Wei and Jin Tombs

The Great Wall 3

Crescent Moon Lake

Mogao Caves

Emin Minaret

Jiaohe Ruins

Urumqi Museum

Kashgar: Market

Pics Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan Mountains

Sary Tash to Osh

Pics Uzbekistan

Pal of Khudayer Khan

Kokand to Tashkent

Samarkand

Shah i Zinda

Amir Temur

The Registan

Mirzo Ulughbek

Samarkand to Bukhara

Bukhara

Ark of Bukhara

Bolo Hauz Mosque

Po-i-Kalyan Complex

Pics Turkmenistan

Merv

Ashgabat

Night in Ashgabat

3 C BC Parthian Fort

Heavenly Horses

Pics Iran

Into Iran

Imam Reza Complex

Golestan Palace

Kashan: Fin Garden

Merchant’s House

Naqsh-e Jahan Square

Jameh Mosque Isfahan

New Julfa Isfahan

Blue Mosque Tabriz

Pics Turkey

Ishak Pasha Palace

Kars

Ani

Erzurum

To Kemaliye

To Sivas

Sivas

Amasya

Hittite Kingdom

Ankara

Ataturk Mausoleum

Anatolian Museum

Ankara to Istanbul

Istanbul

Sultan Ahmed Mosque

Hagia Sophia Museum

Contact

Family Pics

The Great Silk Road Adventure

A 7500 mile journey across Asia along the old Silk Road

This one shows Emperor Constantine IX Monomakhos [1042 - 1055] and Empress Zoe on either side of Jesus. The mosiac symbolises the donations made by the Emperor's family to restore Hagia Sophia.