{"id":11119,"date":"2010-04-02T09:31:20","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T08:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.china-roads.fr\/?p=11119"},"modified":"2025-04-03T11:37:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T10:37:44","slug":"jean-pierre-bonnefon-silk-road-china-24-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.china-roads.com\/reviews\/jean-pierre-bonnefon-silk-road-china-24-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Jean Pierre BONNEFON – Silk Road China (24 days)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Beijing -Xi’an – Xining – Tongren – Xiahe – Jiayuguan – Dunhuang – Turpan – Urumqi ((Tian Chi Lake) – Korla – Kuqa – Aksu – Kashgar – Karakul Lake – Oytag Valley – Kashgar – Beijing<\/p>\n

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Our Silk Road in China.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Having the habit of building our trips with local agencies, always better informed and above all more flexible to our wishes than traditional agencies, I built this trip ‘in parallel’ with other agencies, and we made the happy decision, with my wife to leave with Serge from China Road for the seriousness, the responsiveness to our desires and questions.<\/p>\n

To Serge, from China Roads, with whom we built our Silk Road.<\/p>\n

After Along Bay, Matchu Pitchu, the temples of Angkor, the Taj Mahal, Samarkand and Bukhara, we still had Beijing with its Forbidden City, the Great Wall, the terracotta army of Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi, and the continuation of the Silk Road with its Buddhist treasures and its Uighur culture, to finish in Kashgar, the last legendary city, gateway to Central Asia.<\/p>\n

Arrived in Beijing on April 22, returned on May 15, 2010.<\/p>\n

After days of uncertainty caused by an Icelandic volcano with an unpronounceable name, the winds were favorable and we were able to leave for Beijing as planned (the first day of the resumption of air travel in Europe).<\/p>\n

I would like to thank Serge, as well as Jeanne, his colleague in Beijing, and the five Guides, all different but overall well-informed about their missions and the places we visited: S\u00e9bastien in Beijing, Charles and Claire in Xi’an, Yvain in Xining, in Jiayaguan, a small downside for Jeanne who is a little shy and needs experience, but above all, a big thank you to Sophie who, with her kindness, introduced us to Uighur culture and was more than a guide throughout the trip, without forgetting the drivers, they all took good care of us. We were pampered.<\/p>\n

They were all present when we arrived at the stations and airports, regardless of the location or time.<\/p>\n

It was very reassuring, flawless, again all our gratitude, it is not always the case…<\/p>\n

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Beijing, the Forbidden City<\/em><\/p>\n

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Beijing \u2013 The Great Wall at Jinshanling<\/em><\/p>\n

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Xi’an, the ramparts, an officer of Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi<\/em><\/p>\n

Wutun Monastery – a Tibetan Lady<\/em><\/p>\n

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It is difficult to say what we did not like and to make a ranking, everything lived up to what we dreamed of knowing, of this chimerical silk road, which leaves from Xi’an and passes through Kashgar, to continue towards Central Asia!!!<\/p>\n

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At the start:<\/strong><\/p>\n