Few trade routes in history have had as big an impact on the course of the world's development as the Silk Road. One of the ...

Many Silk Road destinations claim to be “the place ... s busiest marine hubs-more than quadrupling the port’s container traffic since 2010. How much time you’ll need: A week.

Uzbekistan’s cultural gems are becoming more accessible with new trains. Here, how to see the Silk Road by rail.

While traveling camelback wasn’t the mode of transportation, James and her ten fellow travelers on Audley Travel’s 21-day “Journey Along the Silk Route” tour through Western China ...

Set, among other remote places, in the Himalayas; at the Buddhist temple-caves of Qizil, China; and in the Taklamakan Desert of west China (a major obstacle to Silk Road travel whose name means ...

The Silk Road remained a thriving trade route for hundreds ... Naturally, the Hexi Corridor recently emerged as the fifth most popular domestic travel destination in China. Staring out of the ...

The romanticism of rail travel is all attitude – famous-name ... when it was a peak trading post on the Silk Road. As much international business is being conducted by the local hawkers now ...