Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves Turpan

Turpan is supposedly the 2^nd lowest place after the Dead Sea in Jordan and even lower than the Death Valley in Arizona. I got off the train about 1 hour from Turpan. My journey was 33 hours by train from Kashgar. The first thing I did upon arrival was go directly to try and get a train ticket to my next train ticket settled, but that was …

... The highway arched around the Flaming Mountain, and we saw some of the fire color come out in the hills around the Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves. These grottoes were hollowed out and painted to honor the Buddha about a thousand years ago by the royal ...

... a difficult time deciding what is old and what is new. On the other side of the Flaming Mountains are the Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves, which boasts hundreds of frescoes dating from the 5th to 7th centuries.  Their boast is empty, however, as ...

... tombs key holder with his grandson unlocked the doors to the tomb for us. After Astana Tombs we were off to the Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves which is a complex of Buddhist cave grottos dating from the 5th to 14th century.  Of the 83 original ...

... the blistering temperatures in summer. Grapes are a main crop and raisins are for sale everywhere. Next we went to the Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves. My highlight was hearing and old Uighur play a stringed instrument. He kissed me twice on the cheek and ...