For more than a thousand years, Kashgar—where the bone-dry Taklamakan Desert meets the Tian Shan Mountains—was a key city along the Silk Road, the 7,000-mile trade route that connected China ...

walked thousands of miles of the Silk Road, crossing the Hindu Kush where few modern climbers dare. He noted the vibrant multiethnicity of its market cities, such as Kashgar, where he spotted peop ...

The Silk Road, a vast web of interconnected trade paths ... While major lowland trading hubs such as Samarkand, Bukhara, and Kashgar were well documented, the existence of highland cities like ...

Kashgar, an ancient Silk Road oasis, was more recently on the frontlines of Beijing’s sweeping anti-terrorism campaign in the northwestern region. The city’s outskirts are still pockmarked ...

Cities along the Silk Road such as Kashgar and Samarkand were “nestled in vast agricultural oases”, according to Mr Silvia.

In his travels, which started at the age of 17 and lasted over 20 years, he touched upon numerous cities like Acre, Trebizond, Baghdad, Tabriz, Hormuz, Samarkand, Kashgar, Beijing, and Xanadu.