The Silk Road
Xian-Istanbul corridor — nine flagship trails and side routes across living caravan countries
GREATSILKTRAILS presents the historic Silk Road as a curated travel platform: fixed-price flagship trails, overland side routes (Pamir, Wakhan, Fann, Bartang, Sarez, Karakoram), and private journeys. Map points link to destinations and tours. Historical corridor notes are editorial and distinct from present-day operations.
The Great Silk Road, mapped for modern travel
Explore the historic corridor and jump into live Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and multi-country Central Asia itineraries.
Trade routes c. 200 BCE — 1500 CE
The Silk Road
Via Serica
Xi'an — Istanbul
Uzbekistan
Samarkand
Registan Square — jewel of the Silk Road
Principal trading posts & caravanserais
From Chang'an, capital of Han China, to Constantinople — approx. 7,000 miles of caravan trails
Historical corridor illustration for orientation. Present-day GST tours operate on selected modern routes only — not every map point is a bookable product.
GREATSILKTRAILS curates fixed-price Great Silk Road tours and private Silk Road travel with local partners—historic context on the map, real departures on each tour page.
Nine flagship trails
Silk Road Origins Trail — China
Nomads & Mountains Silk Trail — Kyrgyzstan
Golden Cities Silk Trail — Uzbekistan
Pamir Silk Trail — Tajikistan (Flagship)
Great Steppe Silk Trail — Kazakhstan
Caravan Desert Silk Trail — Turkmenistan
Karakoram Silk Trail — Pakistan
Persian Silk Trail — Iran
Anatolian Silk Trail — Turkey