The Silk Road Features

The Silk Road Features

• Top Reasons to Go to the Silk Road
  

  Terracotta Warriors: Visit one of the nation's most haunting and memorable sites—the vast life-size army of soldiers, built to outlast death... Read more

• The Silk Road: Then and Now
  

  The history of the Silk Road starts in 138 bc, when Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty sent a caravan of 100 men to the west, attempting to forge... Read more

• China's Muslims
  

  The Muslim Turkic people known as Uyghurs (pronounced "WEE-grs") are one of China's largest—and in the eyes of Beijing, most troublesome—minority... Read more

• The Jade Road
  

  The residents of Xinjiang are apt to point out that the Silk Road isn't the first road they knew. That honor goes to the "Jade Road," which was... Read more