You tend to see more Tibetan antelopes and camels than humans in a place like this.
Despite the subtle marks of civilization — a tag on a camel, a powerline heading off in the distance — for the most part, it was hours of driving alone in wide, rocky valleys under a blue sky.
This is what half of China looks like: vast, rolling, rocky land, with mountain ranges in the distance and the crunch of sand beneath your boots. From Everest to the Gobi desert to the rolling grasslands of Inner Mongolia.
The region is about the size of Switzerland but is home to only 10,000 people.
where all of the silk, porcelain, and tea that the West craved was carried just before leaving China.
Today the historical territory is part of the patchwork that makes up China, providing economic value not only from the commodities crossing these lands but also from tourism, energy production, a handful of growing cities.
The Hexi Corridor, an incredibly important bottleneck of the Silk Road,
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