The essential guide to backpacking China's Silk Road (from Lonely Planet travel web site)

I just couldn't resist posting this piece, even though I can't really imagine backpacking the Silk Road.

http://www.lonelyplanet.com/asia/travel-tips-and-articles/77807

You'll see many sites familiar to those of us who traveled on our own Silk Road trip that I have attempted to document in this blog: Xian, the Mingsha Dunes outside Dunjuang (the Singing Sand dunes), the Turpan grape valley, the Flaming Mountains and Mogao Caves, Tian Chi or Heavenly Lake, etc.
The essential guide to backpacking China's Silk Road