The Silk Road - the end
My trip to the Silk Road started 12 years ago with Liselotte. We both wanted to see Bukhara and Samarkand in Uzbekistan, but our husbands didn't want to go to a desert country, too hot for them. So Liselotte and I went on a "girls tour" where the focus was on handicraft, and, as women only, we had the chance to see how a wedding was done by a poor young woman who showed us the traditions surveyed by the soon-to-be mother-in-law and her sister. The Silk Road has been a theme for other trips, Northern Pakistan, where I saw how one of the original roads clung to the mountainside with landslides blocking in places - and that was the renovated part. I stood on a good, tar road a bit afar with heavy truck traffic from Western China heading to the nearest harbour, which is in Pakistan. Now my Silk Road-themed trips are coming to and end. I'm about to go to Xi'an, China, and I'll end in Khiva, Uzbekistan, via Kyrgyzstan. I will probably see more places along the Sil...