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The Silk Road
There are other Silk Road cities in countries such as Uzbekistan and Turk-
menistan, but it's really in China where you get the feeling of stepping on the
actual Silk Road (
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. Travel by bus and experience the route as an-
cient traders once did - mile-by-mile, town-by-town. Kashgar (
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the ultimate Silk Road town and today remains a unique melting pot of
peoples, with Jiayuguan Fort (
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, a Great Wall fort framed by snow-
capped mountains, marking the route.