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Central Asia 2022–23 Solo · Overland

Following the Oldest
Road in the World

Merchants, conquerors, monks, and wanderers have walked this corridor for two thousand years. I followed it overland, alone.

Hero photo · The Silk Route

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The Silk Route is not a single road. It is a dozen overlapping trails, a web of empire and trade that once connected China to Rome — carrying silk westward and glass eastward, and everything else in between: ideas, religions, diseases, stories.

Traveling it solo means making choices constantly. Which path, which border, which stranger to trust. The ancient routes are still there, mostly. You follow the logic of geography — mountains funnel you through passes, rivers mark frontiers, oases determine where you stop.

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Where the Route Begins

Add your story here. Which point you started from, what drew you to this particular segment of the route, how the terrain changes as you move through it. The moment when you first felt the weight of the history underneath you.

Photo · bazaar

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The Border Crossings

Add your story here. The specific borders you crossed, what they were like, what happened at each one. The paperwork and waiting, the soldiers and officials, the feeling of moving between worlds. The countries that let you through and the ones that made you work for it.

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The People of the Route

Add your story here. The people you met along the way — the truck drivers, the tea house owners, the families who invited you in. The hospitality that has been a feature of this corridor for millennia. What they asked you, what you asked them.

Full story, route map, and practical overland travel guide coming.

Silk Route Overland Central Asia Border crossings Solo travel 2022–23
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