Photo gallery – Silk Riders

By Gareth Morgan on July 20, 2005 in Photo Gallery

In the footsteps of Marco Polo, our Silk Riders trip from Venice to Beijing … in photos!

Browse through the galleries below.

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Silk Road v Great Wall

Our first glimpse of the Wall - a 10th century beacon tower east of Dunhuang, in the Taklamakan

Note the weird English title of this Silk Road poster

Jo and the Captain absolutely knackered after a desert section

Who is he trying to kid?

Silkies come through the Great Wall on the Silkroad

.. followed by a train doing the same

The 13th century fort at Jiayuguan in the Gobi desert. Where the wall begins as a continuim.

inside the fort

The wall leading away from the fort

Clash of civilisations - the Great Wall amidst modern factories

Apartment building in Western China - don't think all the action is in Shanghai

still traditional Chinese scenes around though

Marco Polo status in Marco Polo st, Zhangye, Gansu Province, Western China

Chinese copying skills ot quite at their best

City crowd gives the Silkies the once over

Our first glimpse of the Wall - a 10th century beacon tower east of Dunhuang, in the Taklamakan

Headmaster of Rewi Alley School and staff pose with Silkriders in front of statur of Rewi Alley and his colleague George hogg

The double wall of rammed earth that constitutes the western end of the Great Wall

Motorcycle Photo Gallery

In the Beginning

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