Dunhuang, China
STOP 25 / 31 · China

Dunhuang

The Gateway Where the Desert Remembers

Jul 17–182 nights

The Mogao Caves, a millennium painted in silence.

The Mogao Caves, a millennium painted in silence.

At the western threshold of China, the road arrives where Marco Polo himself once passed. In the painted grottoes of Mogao, a thousand years of pilgrims, merchants and travellers are preserved on the cave walls — proof that this road has always carried more than goods.

The Mogao Caves, a millennium painted in silence.

CountryChina
DatesJul 17–18
Nights2 nights
Coordinates40.1420, 94.6620
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