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Explore the Silk Roads
- intofarlands 4y agoOver the past six years my wife and I have made it our quest to explore as much of the Silk Roads as possible, with more than 60 outposts charted. We have found the journey so fascinating, we would like to recreate the feeling of an explorer charting and experiencing these places for the first time. Therefore I’ve been investing my time to create an interactive journey where one can experience the Silk Roads without leaving your front door. The journey starts in Constantinople and from there branches out where you can choose where to travel, with all roads leading to the end in Eastern China. Hope you find it interesting and would love any input or suggestions for the project, as there are plenty more places to chart.
- rob74 4y agoNice site! Two small suggestions: when hovering over the icons, the mouse cursor should change to indicate that they are clickable. And, without being very familiar with the Silk Road, I imagine Tehran, Esfahan, Baghdad, Basrah etc. were also significant stations, although it's currently not easy (or advisable) to visit them as a tourist - but I think they should still get icons...
- steve_gh 4y agoThis is the best online travel journal I have seen in a long time. Loving it!
- intofarlands 4y agoMany thanks! A lot of time and thought have been put into it to make it a unique experience. Really makes me excited you enjoy it!
- tpc3 4y agoVery nice, thanks for sharing!
- intofarlands 4y agoGlad to share it and thanks for taking a look at it!
- netsharc 4y agoGreat site and pictures, but having every page fade out after a few seconds and "Give us your email address" gets annoying quick. That needs a "Close and don't show again", which probably needs a cookies/local storage (hello cookie-banner).
- intofarlands 4y agoOh,I thought it was a one-time pop-up. I will look into it. Thanks for bringing it to my attention and taking a look through the site.
- LoganDark 4y agoOr maybe they should just never ever do that and put it in a footer somewhere instead? We dislike sites that only annoy us once, we'd prefer they annoy us zero times. We used to browse the web with NoScript until we learned that the extension itself actually makes the browser much slower than JavaScript does. -Emily
- dayvid 4y agoBeautiful site! Bookmarked it as I'm interested in exploring parts of the silk road in the near future.
- ryenus 4y agoSince you have Zhangye, you might also want to include Dunhuang (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunhuang https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunhuang)? And there's Mogao Caves (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mogao_Caves https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mogao_Caves) which can't be missed.
- intofarlands 4y agoAbsolutely, Dunhuang is such a crucial component of the Silk Roads. However I am only including the places we have traveled through ourselves, and we were not able to fit in Dunhuang when we were passing through the area. This Silk Road experience is a project I anticipate working on over the next few years.
- uijl 4y agoNice project! For other people interested in the history of the Silk Roads, I loved the book by Peter Frankopan. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25812847-the-silk-roads https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25812847-the-silk-roads
- fuzzythinker 4y agoTry increasing the font size to 14px. 12px is quite hard to read.
- wintermutestwin 4y agoThe font in the My Journal section is even smaller and when you increase the font size, the text flows out of the box.
- zztop44 4y agoThis is really wonderful. I’ve been considering a trip along the Silk Roads via Pakistan for some time so this site was a perfect way to spend an afternoon. Thank you so much for this beautiful experience.
- das_keyboard 4y agoOh... somehow I expected this to be about darknet drug market places. But I was pleasantly surprised. Cool Journal.