Silk Road

The Silk Road was a trade route, which started in the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-9 AD) and connected the East and the West. The Silk Road is often crossed as the transport and shopping street in Central Asia and the Pamir plateau, reach West Asia established. The Silk Road is composed of several main roads and junctions. The north of the road (the Silk Road Prairie) started from the Mongolian plateau and ended in the Karakorum. Historically it has been a major road through the useNomads of Central Asia to travel to the West. There were more trails in origin, but the longest in the desert, was famous Silk Road. E 'was often mentioned in ancient documents. The road to the south, known as the Silk Road at sea mainly used by South East Asians, Persians and Arabs. The road began in the China Sea, Asia has gone through India, Southeast Asia, crossed the Red Sea and, finally, the Persian Gulf.

For more than ten centuries of Chinese culture, RomanThe culture and ancient Persian culture was linked by the Silk Road. Because of the silk road, Chinese silk, making gunpowder, paper and printing were introduced to the West, while Nestorianism, Islam, Buddhism and many arts and technologies have been developed in China. The Way Silk Road brought goods and the exchange of ideas between China and the West after first opening.

The main road, which began extended from Asia to Europe in Xianto the east and ran more than 7,000 kilometers through China's Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, Qinghai and Xinjiang province, the Pamir and parts of the Commonwealth of Independent States in Central Asia, including Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq and Syria before was the east coast of the Mediterranean. The section is in China, more than 4,000 kilometers long, more than half of the total length.

historic sites and cultural monuments are rich in the Chinese section. There arethe terracotta warriors of Qin dynasty (221-207 BC), the Famen Temple, which still houses were fragments of bones of Buddha Shakyamuni, the Caves of Mogao and Maijishan more than ten dynasties, the Jiayu Pass of the Great Wall, Towers signal of the Han Dynasty, the famous Tar Monastery of Tibetan Buddhism, the ruins of Gaochang once a strategic town on the Silk Road, and the ruins of Stone City, where you can find references to Buddha and Xuan Zang Marco Polo. This is a smallNumber of different sites, relics and landscapes along the way, we are China's share of silk.

The natural landscape along the Silk Road is nothing short of spectacular: the Bird Island of Qinghai, Qinghai Salt Lake, the Swan Nature Reserve Bayanbulak grasslands, the Heavenly Lake in the Tianshan mountains, the eroded site wind Lopnur, Danxia morphologies, is Turpan Flaming Mountain, the Ghost City of Karamay, and many others to numerous to name. For centuries, thisbeautiful parks have attracted many tourists to explore.

Many ethnic minorities living in the area along the Silk Road. In Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, Qinghai and Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, have ethnic groups, each with different cultural traditions, customs, historical background and religious beliefs. You are responsible for their hospitality acknowledged and are characterized by songs and dances. Travelers can visit along the Silk Road Xipo garden ethnic, ethnic and kindergartensVillages, and visitors can see the pastoral life, for centuries. In different ethnic communities, like to sing and dance rooms, only to attend festive events, holiday celebrations, and shop for art and indigenous crafts. In some sections of the Silk Road, you can travel by cable car to see camels in the desert landscape or rent to enjoy the scenery and the endless sea of sand.

In recent years, the Chinese government is to improve roads andInfrastructure along the Silk Road. As one of the largest tourism projects in China, the Silk Road, the world's attention throughout. Many visitors come to tour this desert adventure for scientific exploration and cultural historian, the ethnic experience of life, ecological tours, sport and history to learn from one of the important cultural and trade routes to the world.