Silk Roads: A Route & Planning Guide (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781905864324)

The Silk Road was never a single thread but an intricate web of trade routes - Silk Roads - linking Asia and Europe. This new practical guide helps travelers explore all these threads and covers Turkey, Syria, Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan and China.

- Getting to the region from North America, Europe and Australasia

- How to travel - train, bus or plane

- Trips for all budgets - from $15 a day to over $150 a day

- What to see and where to go

- Full reviews of hotels and restaurants

- Comprehensive chapter on the historical background of this most famous of all trade routes

- 60 maps and town plans

- Adapted from Silk Route by Rail, which was shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Guide Book of the Year Awards

- Covers more countries than other Silk Road guides - Turkey, Syria, Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan and China