London to Beijing on the old Silk Road

WOW! What a journey. Just fantastic photographs...just a few culled from the 50,000 taken. 4 months and traveling across more than 2/3rds of the globe; now that is the living statement of "Keep on Traveling" Thank you for posting!!! And yes, I had the links scanned- 100% safe.

Thank you so much for posting this link! We. spent two weeks on the Silk Road in China and especially enjoyed Dunhuang and the ancient Mogao Caves as well as Kashgar. They were destroying Kashgar’s Muslim influenced architecture when we visited and building pagodas! The crimes being inflicted on the Uighur people there breaks my heart. I fear for our Uighur guide and his young family.

My dream trip in reverse. In 2017 we were going to do Shanghai to Istanbul via the 'stans and across the Caspian to Azerbijan and Georgia. Unfortunately my partner got very ill only a week or so in in China, he got altitude sickness so there is no way he can ever do the 4000+ m elevations in Tajikistan. But I do want to try again one day.

That's quite the adventure. The website is going to take some time to drool over.
Like many I have contemplated and discarded a lot of places for immediate travel once it is possible (for me). The Stans have been reviewed, and numerous Silk Road videos watched. I remember a day in Alexandria where the carvansari habit of leaving out urns of drinking water still goes on. Metal or wooden stands with clay pots sit outside some little shop in the back streets. It took a while for me to link up their caravans to the silk road caravans. This week I look at Georgia, Azerbaijan or Armenia may be the option. I have always wanted to see the Black Sea and Caspian Sea...maybe I'll focus on Georgia, dip a toe into the Black Sea, then fly to Baku and dip a toe into the Caspian...or better yet, have an Autumn swim in both. But then, that silk road still calls....

No way would I try to go through Iran.