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The Great\u00a0Silk Road<\/strong>\u2026 What do we know about it? Our imagination gives us the picture of the boundless sandy sea of burning desert. Cleaving sand dunes like waves, endless caravans loaded with rich goods plod on their way through it\u2026 The\u00a0tours<\/strong>\u00a0of the\u00a0Silk Road<\/strong>\u00a0are really a journey into the diverse culture and ancient history of China quite unlike any other. During your\u00a0Silk Road travel<\/strong>\u00a0you are sure to come across a number of unsurpassed attractions.<\/p>\n But it\u2019s only partially true. The Great\u00a0Silk Road<\/strong>\u00a0stretched out through thousands of kilometers guiding caravans both through scorching deserts, picturesque oases, and\u00a0mountain passes.<\/strong> Along the way the towns and the whole civilizations sprang up, flourished and were ravaged. The ancient towns located along the\u00a0Silk Road<\/strong>\u00a0saw quite a number of devastating wars, destructions, fires, hunger and pestilence. The multilingual Oriental bazaars were making a noise for centuries, for hundreds years down the caravan roads the merchants carried silks and stones, spicery and dyes, gold and silver, exotic birds and animals.<\/p>\n On the basis of this, it can be said that the Great\u00a0Silk Road<\/strong>\u00a0is a grand trade route, which connected the East and the West and which was the cause of appearance of many unique towns, historical monuments, customs and even states.<\/p>\n Thus, how did this wonderful route appear, which afterwards became the source of the cultural enrichment of the West and the East? Let\u2019s address to the captivating history of the\u00a0Silk Road<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The\u00a0Great Silk Road<\/strong>\u00a0has never been the single main line. It consisted of a few branches of caravan roads which passed through the different passes in the mountain ranges, round the deserts.<\/p>\n Originally the\u00a0Silk Road<\/strong>\u00a0sprang from Chang\u2019an – the ancient capital of China \u2013 and went along the northern Tien Shan to Dunhua\u2013 the town on the skirts of the Great Wall of China. Here the single road forked bordering the Takla Makan Desert from north and south. The northern road went through Turfan to the valley of the Ili river. The middle road (so-called the Southern Route) went from Shaoshan to the southern shore of the Issyk Kul lake \u2013 through Hotan \u0438 Yarkand, and led to Baktria (northern Afghanistan). Here the Southern Route forked into two other routes: one of them led to India, the other one \u2013 to the West and Merv where it joined the Northern Route. Further, it passed through Nisa \u2013 the capital of Parthia, Iran, Mesopotamia and further through Baghdad went to Damascus, reached the Mediterranean. Further about the Great\u00a0Silk Road tours<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The goods along the Great\u00a0Silk Road<\/strong>\u00a0went chiefly from the East to the West. And, as it follows from the name, silk was the main article in this list. Thanks to its lightness, compactness, huge demand and high prices it is an ideal article to be transported for long distances.<\/p>\n As long ago as in the Middle Ages the Venetian merchant Marko Polo named these caravan routes silk ones. In the scientific turn the term \u201cGreat\u00a0Silk Road<\/strong>\u201d was brought in 1877 by the German explorer Ferdinand Richthofen who used it in his fundamental work \u201cChina\u201d. Further about the goods of the Great\u00a0Silk Road<\/strong>.\u00a0Ak-Sai Travel<\/strong>\u00a0Company offers the\u00a0Silk Road tours<\/strong>\u00a0over Central Asia. An unforgettable\u00a0Silk Road travel<\/strong>\u00a0will give you the brightest and most colorful impressions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Great\u00a0Silk Road\u2026 What do we know about it? Our imagination gives us the picture of the boundless sandy sea of burning desert. Cleaving sand dunes like waves, endless caravans loaded with rich goods plod on their way through it\u2026 The\u00a0tours\u00a0of the\u00a0Silk Road\u00a0are really a journey into the diverse culture and ancient history of China […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11160,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ak-sai.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/936"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ak-sai.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ak-sai.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ak-sai.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ak-sai.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=936"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/ak-sai.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11541,"href":"https:\/\/ak-sai.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/936\/revisions\/11541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ak-sai.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ak-sai.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Great Silk Road Countries<\/h3>\n
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Great Silk Road Tours<\/h3>\n
History of the Great Silk Road<\/h3>\n
Goods of the Great Silk Road<\/h3>\n