Sites along the Silk Road

buddhist archeological site

archaeological site in Afghanistan

archaeological site in China

Archaeological site

road in Nepal

mountain pass in the Tian-Shan mountain range

Shahidulla, also spelt Xaidulla, (altitude ca. 3,646 m or 11,962 ft), was a nomad camping ground and historical caravan halting place in the Karakash River valley, close to Khotan, in the southwestern part of Xinjiang Autonomous Region, China. The site contains the ruins of a historical fort which was demolished by the Chinese administration of Xinjiang between 1890 and 1892. The site lies next to the Chinese National Highway G219 between Kashgar and Tibet, 25 km east of Mazar and 115 km west of Dahongliutan.

Mountain pass in Uzbekistsan

buddhist site in Gansu, China

thumb|right|Endere Stupa Endere (Chinese: 安迪尔; pinyin: Āndí'ěr) is an archaeological site in Xinjiang, China, in the southern Taklamakan Desert, a part of the southern route of the ancient Silk Road. It has been tentatively identified with a place called Saca that is mentioned in documents written in Kharoṣṭhī script which have been found in the region.

Buddhist stupa located on the southern rim of the Taklamakan Desert in China

lake in Inner Mongolia, China

Xinjiang Buddhist grottoes, discovered by local sheepherder in C.E.1999

mountain pass in the Hindu Kush range, Afghanistan

valley

mountain pass

building in Tiantishan Grottoes, China

mountain pass in Tajikistan and China

tower that marked the mid-point on the ancient Silk Road

Archeology site in Ruoqiang

thumb|300px|Aurél Stein photo of the Farhad-beg-yailaki site, seen from southwest in 1906–08. Remains of the ruined temple and porch

predominantly Buddhist ancient Indian cultural site in Gilgit−Baltistan, Pakistan

site of a ruined hill fort in China