Asian Geographic – Special Edition 2017-2018

Motorbikes make their way to Cheel ka Teela (the “Hill of Eagles”) in Jaipur, the capital of Rajasthan Province culture ...

Text Sophie Ibbotson Photos Michael Lee On the Silk Road ...

above A Muslim family outside the tomb of Kusam ibn Abbas, a cousin of the Prophet Muhammad We use the term “Silk Road” without ...

CHINA INDIA PAKISTAN AFGHANISTAN TURKMENISTAN KAZAKHSTAN UZBEKISTAN KYRGYZSTAN MONGOLIA IRAN Tehran Aleppo Damascus Baghdad Trip ...

right Cotton production and trading is important to Uzbekistan’s economy today bottom right A Uyghur couple at the Sunday market ...

Precious goods travelled along the Silk Road. Tutankhamun’s funeral mask is made with lapis lazuli from Badakhshan, obsidian fro ...

Religions spread along the Silk Roads. The birthplaces of Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Manicheism and Zoroastrianism, amongst ...

above Uzbek bread called non is sold in the Siob bazaar in Samarkand top An Uzkbek man donning a traditional hat, or taqiyah, po ...

Text and Photos David Rengel The Last Lost Kingdom culture ...

The walled capital city of Lo Manthang in the Kingdom of Mustang is considered to be one of the best-preserved medieval sites in ...

As human settlements flourished in various parts of the world throughout the course of history, trade routes were created to mee ...

intersecting territories, the Silk Road also brought about the exchange of ideas: scientific knowledge, craft and architectural ...

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The first Westerner to arrive in Mustang was the Swiss geologist and explorer Toni Hagen, who in 1952 made a brief visit to the ...

below Women restore the Tupchen Gonpa monastery’s walls. They are supervised by experts from the American Himalayan Foundation b ...

Ana Baba is a Hindu ascetic. After his ashram in India was destroyed by floods, he moved to Mustang to find a new path in life. ...

“People get sick and die because they cannot get treatment in time, and the road can change this” From the 15th to the 17th cent ...

Before he died, he said that “the road would be very useful for the local population because all their supplies come from the Ti ...

environment IMAGE COURTESY OF TIM JARVIS ...

The Change Makers FOUR EXPLORERS DISCUSS HOW THEY USE THEIR EXPEDITIONS TO PROMOTE ENVIRONMENTAL CONSCIOUSNESS, INSPIRING PUBLIC ...