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Caravanserai – Staging Posts of the Desert

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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Wulingyuan National Park

In China’s Hunan Province, near the town of Zhangjiajie, the ground literally falls away – think the films Hero or House of the Flying Daggers. It’s not hard to imagine Jet Li or Maggie Cheung flying gracefully through this mystical landscape.

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