Explore the Silk Roads

Over the past six years my wife and I have made it our quest to explore as much of the Silk Roads as possible, with more than 60 outposts charted. We have found the journey so fascinating, we would like to recreate the feeling of an explorer charting and experiencing these places for the first time. Therefore I’ve been investing my time to create an interactive journey where one can experience the Silk Roads without leaving your front door.

The journey starts in Constantinople and from there branches out where you can choose where to travel, with all roads leading to the end in Eastern China. Hope you find it interesting and would love any input or suggestions for the project, as there are plenty more places to chart.

Since you have Zhangye, you might also want to include Dunhuang (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunhuang)?

And there's Mogao Caves (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mogao_Caves) which can't be missed.

Nice project! For other people interested in the history of the Silk Roads, I loved the book by Peter Frankopan.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25812847-the-silk-roads

Great site and pictures, but having every page fade out after a few seconds and "Give us your email address" gets annoying quick. That needs a "Close and don't show again", which probably needs a cookies/local storage (hello cookie-banner).

This is really wonderful. I’ve been considering a trip along the Silk Roads via Pakistan for some time so this site was a perfect way to spend an afternoon. Thank you so much for this beautiful experience.

This is the best online travel journal I have seen in a long time. Loving it!

Beautiful site! Bookmarked it as I'm interested in exploring parts of the silk road in the near future.

Oh... somehow I expected this to be about darknet drug market places.

But I was pleasantly surprised. Cool Journal.

Very nice, thanks for sharing!

Try increasing the font size to 14px. 12px is quite hard to read.