Uzbekistan’s cultural gems are becoming more accessible with new trains. Here, how to see the Silk Road by rail.

The legendary, mountain-backed Pamir Highway — one of the world’s most epic road trips and the northern segment of the ancient Silk Road, described by Marco Polo in the 13th century — lies ...

A new book recounts the last leg of a 40,000km Silk Road odyssey, revealing the age-old sights and sounds of the Middle ...

Since 1893, the train has been recognized as a symbol of all-out luxury in travel. Now officially known as the Venice Simplon ...

The romanticism of rail travel is all attitude – famous-name ... when it was a peak trading post on the Silk Road. As much international business is being conducted by the local hawkers now ...

The Silk Road itself may be a thing of the past ... Trillions of bacteria, fungi, viruses and single-celled organisms travel the globe high in the atmosphere. Scientists are finding that they ...

This CNN Travel series is, or was ... backwater was one of the main stops in a Caucasian branch of the classic Silk Route. And the work being done here today is part of a far wider resurgence ...

For travelphiles who grew up on a steady diet of Silk Route lore, perhaps the most famous ... a blue dome now and then—a glance of a bygone travel trail travelling like a lifeline underneath ...

First entry into Anatolia, an important city on the Silk Road trade route in the Middle Ages. (Credit: Mazur Travel/Shutterstock) The Han Chinese court welcomed Western trade for one of the first ...

In India, the ancient Silk Road covered seven main states – Bihar, Jammu and Kashmir, Maharashtra, Puducherry, Punjab, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh (and present-day Uttarakhand. In total, there ...

The Silk Road refers to one of the world's largest ... Hussain and his brother Tafazzul launched Roots Ladakh in 2013, a travel company focusing on the natural and cultural heritage of Kargil.