Castle of the Assassins
Marco Polo tells a mysterious story of “the old man of the mountain”, master of an army of assassins inContinue Reading
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Marco Polo tells a mysterious story of “the old man of the mountain”, master of an army of assassins inContinue Reading
Marco Polos Silk Road journey was an epic overland adventure in the 1270s where he went from Venice to ChinaContinue Reading
My journey on the Karakoram highway, described in previous posts, ends in Kashgar and on the edge of the greatContinue Reading
It’s a strange and rather spooky bus ride from Tashkurgan to Kashgar along the Karakoram Highway on the roof ofContinue Reading
The road onwards from Gilgit is narrow, boulder-strewn and treacherous. The bus got cancelled so I took off in aContinue Reading