Comments on: Silk Road http://jeffmatherphotography.com/dispatches/2008/04/silk-road/ The 9 to 5 Life of an International Playboy Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:08:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: mary http://jeffmatherphotography.com/dispatches/2008/04/silk-road/#comment-2470 mary Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:32:13 +0000 http://jeffmatherphotography.com/dispatches/2008/04/silk-road/#comment-2470 sounds very ambitious! the mountains in the karakul link look so badass - you must go! i am also drawn to mountainous regions, but mine favorites (well, the ones i want to visit the most) are on the complete opposite side of the globe from where you want to visit. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patagonia" rel="nofollow">yay!</a> sounds very ambitious! the mountains in the karakul link look so badass - you must go! i am also drawn to mountainous regions, but mine favorites (well, the ones i want to visit the most) are on the complete opposite side of the globe from where you want to visit. yay!

]]> By: Jeff Mather http://jeffmatherphotography.com/dispatches/2008/04/silk-road/#comment-2331 Jeff Mather Thu, 24 Apr 2008 02:52:52 +0000 http://jeffmatherphotography.com/dispatches/2008/04/silk-road/#comment-2331 Hey Auntie! Thanks for the <i>NG</i> tip. I love the whole idea of the Taklamakan Desert. Its name means "You go in, you'll never come out." That sounds like my kind of place. There are a couple of things I would like to see in Xinjiang, the location of the Taklamakan Desert. On the east side is <a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/919381" rel="nofollow">Yumen Guan</a>, the Jade Gate, which marks the end of the Great Wall. And on the west is the <a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/4595815" rel="nofollow">Stone City</a> of Taxkorgan. Hey Auntie! Thanks for the NG tip.

I love the whole idea of the Taklamakan Desert. Its name means “You go in, you’ll never come out.” That sounds like my kind of place.

There are a couple of things I would like to see in Xinjiang, the location of the Taklamakan Desert. On the east side is Yumen Guan, the Jade Gate, which marks the end of the Great Wall. And on the west is the Stone City of Taxkorgan.

]]> By: Kathy http://jeffmatherphotography.com/dispatches/2008/04/silk-road/#comment-2327 Kathy Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:15:49 +0000 http://jeffmatherphotography.com/dispatches/2008/04/silk-road/#comment-2327 That sounds like an incredible journey! The May, 2008 National Geographic issue is all about China. An included map says that on the Southern edge of the Taklimakan Desert at a town named Hotan, which they say in on the Silk Road, jade has washed down from the Kunlun Mountains. Just thought i would pass that along. That sounds like an incredible journey! The May, 2008 National Geographic issue is all about China. An included map says that on the Southern edge of the Taklimakan Desert at a town named Hotan, which they say in on the Silk Road, jade has washed down from the Kunlun Mountains. Just thought i would pass that along.

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