Noam Backner
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Study Journey

Silk Road Tour 2025

Lanzhou to Dunhuang along the Gansu corridor, in the company of caves, deserts and kitchens

Gansu corridor · Northwest China · Spring 2025 · 8–12 participants · Completed

Crescent Lake at Dunhuang: a timber pavilion and a green reed bank held between high sand dunes.

From the field

The 2025 group standing beneath a colossal seated Buddha and its attendant figures carved in a cave niche.
The 2025 group standing beneath a colossal seated Buddha and its attendant figures carved in a cave niche.
A cave wall painted with a central Buddha on a lotus throne surrounded by rows of haloed attendants.
A cave wall painted with a central Buddha on a lotus throne surrounded by rows of haloed attendants.
A ruined mudbrick watchtower on a low hill above open gravel desert under a deep blue sky.
A ruined mudbrick watchtower on a low hill above open gravel desert under a deep blue sky.
Sandstone pinnacles rising above the green water of the Yellow River at Bingling Temple.
Sandstone pinnacles rising above the green water of the Yellow River at Bingling Temple.
A noodle master in a white cap pulling dough by hand in a small roadside kitchen, a child watching from a pram.
A noodle master in a white cap pulling dough by hand in a small roadside kitchen, a child watching from a pram.
Crescent Lake at Dunhuang: a timber pavilion and a green reed bank held between high sand dunes.
Crescent Lake at Dunhuang: a timber pavilion and a green reed bank held between high sand dunes.

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Where
Gansu corridor · Northwest China
When
Spring 2025
Group
8–12 participants
Languages
English · Hebrew

Completed

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