Marco Polo

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Sunset in Suzhou sets the water of the Grand Canal alight.
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The omnipresent bicycles in Beijing, China crowd the Marco Polo Bridge.
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Hands-on wrangling speeds a round up on the plains of Inner Mongolia. The high place of horses in Mongol life reached to the ...
Fossil coal: fire without flames - The Qilian Mountains have rich coal reserves, as first cited by Marco Polo.
Dangerous asbestos dust pollutes the air around a worker in Zhangye.
The Great Wall in Gansu.
A hairy Bactrian camel is used instead of an ox to plow a field in Gansu, China.
A reclining Buddha in Mogao Caves. The Buddhist art in this site was created between the fifth and eighth centuries.
camel caravan crossing desert
Sandstorm in Gansu, China.
Examination and sale of jade from the bed of the river Yurungkax, near Hotan. China
A falconer shows of his pride and joy. Hotan, China.
A child helps his mother spin silk using a traditional large spinning wheel.
Woman planting cottons seed, Yarkand, China.
Young Uighurs in Hotan, China. Marco Polo noted the physical beauty of this people in his journals.
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Noodles in Kashgar are considered the best in China.
Noodles in Kashgar are considered the best in China.
The veil worn by Uighur women is a simple shawl, often brown.
Men bargain in Kashgar market, Xinjiang, China. Bargaining takes place the usual way: head to head.
Every Sunday, thousands of people converge on Kashgar for the market. Xinjiang, China.
A snow storm near Kashgar, the biggest city between the Pamirs and Takilmakan.
Every Sunday, thousands of people converge on Kashgar for the market. Xinjiang, China.
Baking naan (bread) inside a yurt in Datar, a village in the chinese section of the Pamirs.
Future groves: poplar plantations - the only trees in the Hotan region are grown in rows.
Tajik schoolboys wait for their lessons to start. In this corner of the world, males wear blue, while females wear red.
Tajik girls from Akmquit, China collect water from a pool in an oasis.
Horses by the Pamirs mountain range in China
The hardships of a medieval journey would not surprise, nor frighten, the inhabitants of Xinjiang
A young Tajik leads her donkey through the immensity of the Chinese Pamirs.
Rare spring snowfall in the Pamirs on the edge of the Taklimakan desert.
A child sleeps in a hammock. Little has changed since the thirteenth century.
The Shah of Wakhan, Said Ismail, greets his subjects with a traditional salute.
The Wakhan Corridor, Afghanistan. Heading east along the bed of a dried-up river.
Making bread the traditional way. The ingredients are excellent wheat flour, good quality salt, and pure water.
Separating the seed from the chaff in Badakshan.
Men round up their cattle in an Afghan courtyard.
Day laborers waiting to be offered work. The City of Salt: Feyzabad, Afghanistan.
Opium smokers in Qualeh Panjah, Afghanistan.
In Feyzabad, Afghanistan, like every other bazaar in the Middle East, basic goods make a colorful display in the bazaar.
A new dawn in Feyzabad awakening from the roughness brought by years of war.
Still plentiful, sheep are one of Feyzabad's few local resources.
Afghani officers surrounding Massaud, a fine strategist
Massoud, theLion of Panjshir, leads his officers in evening prayer.
A girl embroiders fine silk with gold thread.
Completely veiled by her burkha, a woman takes her children to a doctor in Feyzabad, Afghanistan.
Troops loyal to Ahmad Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, aim the cannonof an old Russian tank.
At dawn the fishing boats are dragged into the water.