There were once thousands of caravanserai, staging posts for the weary traveller, dotted throughout Asia, North Africa and the South-Eastern parts of Europe. The Silk Road, an important and extensive trans-continental network of routes, was dotted with them. Many still survive, but more, like the one in the Lut desert of Iran (above) are abandoned and slowly turning to dust.
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Confucius lived from 551 to 479 BC and was a Chinese philosopher and politician of who was traditionally considered the paragon of Chinese sages.
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Rickshaws appeared in Shanghai and Hong Kong in 1874, in Singapore in 1880, in Beijing in 1886 and then to other parts of Southeast and South Asia and Africa.
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Translated from the Chinese, these mountains are called ‘celestial,’ and little wonder when your catch sight of the breathtaking alpine scenery here.
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Kazakhstan is the ninth largest country in the world, roughly comparable in size to most of Western Europe or around half of the United States. It spreads over two time zones and ranges in topography from the West Siberian lowlands to the desert of Kyzylkum and the vast, inhospitable ranges of Tien Shan and the Altai Mountains.
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