Yan and her husband Flo are riding again – this time heading into modern Hami. They took a different route across the Gobi Desert than Déywiha, who traveled along the southern rim of Dzungaria and passed through what became Hami on the way to Ga-Se. But Yan and Flo don’t have herds of cattle and horses to graze and water for weeks across the desert, either!
Yan and her husband Flo take us on a motorcycle journey to the legendary Iron Gate from the Dzungaria side (part of Xinjiang, China today) headin to modern Kazakhstan. It is very different from Déywiha’s time—the modern Silk Road runs over rails here!
My favorite intrepid modern Chinese explorer, Yan, stops at a market for black jade in Hotan.
A five-thousand-year-old love triangle continues. Three roles repeat across centuries and countless miles—the Dreamer, the Protector, the Destroyer.
This time, the Dreamer knows enough to choose
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