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A Backpacker’s Travel Guide to Kokand

A Backpacker’s Travel Guide to Kokand

Kokand You’ll see little today in Kokand that recalls the city’s former glory as a religious center of Central Asia and capital of the Kokand Khanate during the 18th and 19th centuries.  Though it was at one point second only…

epiccuriAugust 28, 2014September 1, 2014 Guides, Travel No Comments
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A Backpacker’s Travel Guide to Osh

A Backpacker’s Travel Guide to Osh

Osh Osh is the second biggest city in Kyrgyzstan and also it’s oldest, with a history going back more than 3,000 years.  Yep, it’s ancient.  However, despite that impressive age and what one would expect to be a plethora of…

epiccuriAugust 26, 2014September 5, 2014 Guides, Travel No Comments
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A Backpacker’s Travel Guide to Kashgar

A Backpacker’s Travel Guide to Kashgar

Kashgar This is the western edge of China and one of the great market stops on the old Silk Road.  For more than 2000 years, Kashgar has been an important trading post for all of western China.  And it still is…

epiccuriAugust 25, 2014August 27, 2014 Guides, Travel No Comments
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A Backpacker’s Travel Guide to Kuqa

A Backpacker’s Travel Guide to Kuqa

Kuqa Kuqa (also known as Kucha) is not a pretty place.  This former Tokharian Buddhist city-state on the trail of the old Silk Road is dirty and poor.  It’s divided between an Uyghur Old Town in the west and a…

epiccuriAugust 23, 2014August 27, 2014 Guides, Travel 1 Comment
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A Backpacker’s Travel Guide to Turpan

A Backpacker’s Travel Guide to Turpan

Turpan Turpan is hot.  Very hot.  It sits in the Turpan Depression, the second lowest point on earth behind the Dead Sea, roasting in the still air.  In Turpan, the summers are very long and boiling hot, the winters are short…

epiccuriAugust 21, 2014August 27, 2014 Guides, Travel No Comments
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A Backpacker’s Travel Guide to Hami

A Backpacker’s Travel Guide to Hami

Hami Hami is an old oasis-city along the northern route of the old Silk Road.  Due to it’s strategic location, it has traded hands many, many times between the imperial Chinese, the Mongols, the Uyghurs, and various Turkic Central Asian…

epiccuriAugust 21, 2014August 27, 2014 Guides, Travel No Comments
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A Backpacker’s Travel Guide to Dunhuang

A Backpacker’s Travel Guide to Dunhuang

Dunhuang Dunhuang was founded way back in 111 BC by Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty.  It lies at the crossroads of two branches of the old Silk Road, and on the entrance to the Hexi corridor.  Though you wouldn’t…

epiccuriAugust 18, 2014August 27, 2014 Guides, Travel No Comments
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