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
Category: Historical travellers
In Iran with Marco Polo
Marco Polos Silk Road journey was an epic overland adventure in the 1270s where he went from Venice to ChinaContinue Reading
Edge of the Taklamakan
My journey on the Karakoram highway, described in previous posts, ends in Kashgar and on the edge of the greatContinue Reading
Father of Ice Mountains
It’s a strange and rather spooky bus ride from Tashkurgan to Kashgar along the Karakoram Highway on the roof ofContinue Reading
Karakoram highway
The road onwards from Gilgit is narrow, boulder-strewn and treacherous. The bus got cancelled so I took off in aContinue Reading
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