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Insight Guides The Silk Road: Travel Guide eBook
About this book
This Silk Road guidebook is ideal for travellers seeking inspirational guides and planning a more extended trip. It provides interesting facts about the Silk Road's people, history and culture and detailed coverage of the best places to see. This Silk Road travel book has the style of an illustrated magazine to inspire you and give a taste of the Silk Road. This Silk Road guidebook covers: China (Shaanxi, Ginsu, Xinjiang), Central Asia (Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan), Western Asia (Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey).In this Silk Road travel guidebook, you will find:
- Unique essays – country history and culture, and modern-day life, people and politics
- Silk Road highlights – Mingsha Shan and Crescent Moon Lake; Heavenly Lake Tianchi; Flaming Mountains near Turpan, China; Lake Karakul; Tajikistan's Pamir Highway; Hunza Valley, Pakistan; Tehran Bazaar; Sunday Market, Kashgar; Peshawar, Pakistan; Isfahan architecture; Xi'an city; Samarkand; Istanbul
- Practical travel information – getting there and around, budgeting, eating out, shopping, public holidays, information for LGBTQ+ travellers and more
- When to go to the Silk Road - high season, low season, climate information and festivals
- Insider recommendations – tips on how to beat the crowds, save time and money and find the best local spots
- Main attractions & curated places – narrative descriptions of where to go and what to see, covered geographically
- Tips and facts – interesting facts about the Silk Road and useful insider tips
- High-quality maps of the Silk Road – must-see places cross-referenced to colourful maps for quick orientation
- Colour-coded chapters – each place chapter has its own colour assigned to aid easy navigation of this Silk Road travel guide
- Striking pictures – rich, inspirational colour photography on all pages, capturing attractions, nature, people and historical features
- Fully updated post-COVID-19
This Silk Road guidebook is just the tool you need to get under the skin of the destination and accompany you on your trip. This book will inspire you and answer all your questions while preparing a trip to the Silk Road or along the way.
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Table of contents
- How To Use This E-Book
- Silk Road’s Top 10 Attractions
- Editor’s Choice
- The best of The Silk Road
- Sustainable travel
- Ancient Trade Route
- The incredible journey
- Decisive dates
- The First Steps
- The Opening of the Road
- The Middlemen
- Glory and Decline
- The Mongol Era and Rise of Europe
- Rediscovering the Road
- Insight: Treasures of the Silk Road
- The Story of Silk
- Insight: Silk Production
- Life on the Road
- Insight: Bazaars
- The Spread of Ideas
- People and the Environment
- Places
- China
- Shaanxi
- Gansu
- Xinjiang
- Central Asia
- Pakistan
- Afghanistan
- Kyrgyzstan
- Insight: Yurts
- Kazakhstan
- Tajikistan
- Uzbekistan
- Turkmenistan
- Western Asia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Syria
- Lebanon
- Turkey
- Transport
- A-Z: A Handy Summary of Practical Information
- Language
- Further Reading
- Transport
- A-Z: A Handy Summary of Practical Information
- Language
- Further Reading
- Transport
- A-Z: A Handy Summary of Practical Information
- Language
- Further Reading