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Completely revised and updated, this third edition contains all the information required for travelling along the Silk Road from the Mediterranean Sea to China, whether by road or by rail. Chapters cover planning your trip for all budgets, whether you're travelling independently or as part of a group; practical information for travellers in Syria, Turkey, Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan and China; 51 city guides with maps including where to stay, where to eat and what to see; plus less well-known routes - Southern Taklamakan, Kashgar-Rawalpindi (Karakoram Highway), and Marco Polo's route to Xanadu; extensive history of the Silk Roads; useful phrases in Arabic, Farsi, Russian and Chinese. Contains 24 full colour photos.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Its hard to travel on a bike and carry too much gear, especially books...but I'm glad I did with this one.
I cycled all the way from Paris to Beijing, through Turkey and on out through the Caucuses and through Central Asia along one branch of the Silk Roads with a group of friends and used this guide a lot. Its helpful to cyclists and non-cyclists alike, with more details on the Silk Road in China than the usual other guides.
I cycled all the way from Paris to Beijing, through Turkey and on out through the Caucuses and through Central Asia along one branch of the Silk Roads with a group of friends and used this guide a lot. Its helpful to cyclists and non-cyclists alike, with more details on the Silk Road in China than the usual other guides.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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I am planning a 6 week trip along a large section of the Silk Road between Xi'an in China and Samarkand and Bukhara in Uzbekistan and I have found this guide book invaluable in helping me plan where I should go and what to look out for. I would say that it is indispensable to anyone planning a Silk Road journey.
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The ultimate guide for the ultimate trip
8 Mar 2012
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I have been planning on overlanding Europe to China for quite a while. The only problem is there is no one book for it. Reading individual country guides is extremely time consuming since a change of plans in one country would propagate out to all the other countries. More over, backpacking with 5 Lonely Planet guides would be crazy. Alas, at last I found this book. It tells you exactly where the silk road is (it is really a network of roads), how to get there and all the points of interests in between. With the book in hand, I can turn to Lonely planet guides for the nitty gritty details of city hopping.
The only draw back I can point to is the lack of coverage on Kazakhstan. This book offers 2 route into China. First route is across Kyrgyzstan from Bishkek to Kashgar. While this is definitely the original silk road, doing this trip involves a 16 hour bus ride on a rickety road cut through the high Pamirs. Not terribly safe nor pleasant. The second route is going across Pakistan and up the Karakorum Highway. Again, this is both a historically accurate and extreme scenic road. Given the current security situation in Pakistan, this is not a great choice either. The simplest and safest route is to go through Kazakhstan from Almaty to Urumqi by train. While all the information could easily be obtained from wikitravel, I feel this book is doing its readers a disservice by nudging them towards the 2 high mountain passes.
All in all I would still highly recommend this book. For a trip this size, having a big picture book is essential. No other book come close in terms of breath and depth on this subject.
Bon Voyage silk roaders.
The only draw back I can point to is the lack of coverage on Kazakhstan. This book offers 2 route into China. First route is across Kyrgyzstan from Bishkek to Kashgar. While this is definitely the original silk road, doing this trip involves a 16 hour bus ride on a rickety road cut through the high Pamirs. Not terribly safe nor pleasant. The second route is going across Pakistan and up the Karakorum Highway. Again, this is both a historically accurate and extreme scenic road. Given the current security situation in Pakistan, this is not a great choice either. The simplest and safest route is to go through Kazakhstan from Almaty to Urumqi by train. While all the information could easily be obtained from wikitravel, I feel this book is doing its readers a disservice by nudging them towards the 2 high mountain passes.
All in all I would still highly recommend this book. For a trip this size, having a big picture book is essential. No other book come close in terms of breath and depth on this subject.
Bon Voyage silk roaders.
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