deep in the Gobi Desert. Built in 1032, the city thrived under the rule of the Tangut-led Western Xia dynasty, which occupied the area round the Hexi Corridor, a stretch of the Silk Road on the ...

Khara-Khoto, also called Khar khot (meaning "black city" in Mongolian), is a ruined fortified city near the Juyan Lake Basin, ...

As the most diversified course of the 4 Deserts Race Series combining a cooler weather mountain trail race and a hot desert race ... the area of the ancient Silk Road. It follows the Tian Shan ...