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Details: Written by Richard_McKie; Parent Category: Travel; Category: Central Asia; Published: 28 July 2019; Hits: 20464

Having, in several trips, followed the Silk Road from Xian and Urumqi in China across Tajikistan and Uzbekistan our next visit had to be to the Caucuses. So in May 2019 we purchased an organised tour to Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia from ExPat Explore. If this is all that interests you you might want to skip straight to Azerbaijan. Click here...

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Details: Written by Richard_McKie; Parent Category: Travel; Category: Central Asia; Published: 10 August 2018; Hits: 71140

Travels in Central Asia

In June 2018 we travelled to China before joining an organised tour in Central Asia that, except for a sojourn in the mountains of Tajikistan, followed in the footsteps of Marco Polo along the Great Silk Road.

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