Woman and horse at the ancient Yanguan Pass Gansu Province China


Built by Emperor Wudi in the 2nd century BC, this pass was a strategic point where camel caravans passed through when traveling westward from Dunhuang to follow the southern route of the Silk Road that skirted the southern edge of the Taklamakan Desert.


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