The New York Times Agency May 2010
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(NYT54) IN CENTRAL KYRGYZSTAN -- June 5, 2007 -- ADV. FOR JUNE 10 -- TRAVEL-SILK-ROAD -- In Central Kyrgyzstan, May 6, 2007 a car heads north on the Silk Road, with the Tian Shan Mountains in the rear-view mirror. The Silk Road is the popular name for a system of caravan trade routes that dates back more than 2,000 years, an important economic artery that stretched roughly 7,000 miles, from the Mediterranean to China's Yellow River Valley. Photographer Jehad Nga, on assignment for the Travel section, spent three weeks retracing part of the historic route in central Asia, driving from Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, to Dushanbe, Tajikistan. Conditions were at times onerous, ranging from oppressive desertlike heat in Uzbekistan to a blizzard in Tajikistan that made that country's already treacherous roads nearly impossible to navigate. But it was also a journey of discovery: of encountering Kyrgyz sheepherders living in bare-existence yurts set in the vast wilderness; of witnessing an Uzbek bride's joyful preparation for her wedding; of shopping in the historic central bazaar of Samarkand Uzbekistan. "There were moments when I felt further from the rest of the world than I ever have before," Nga recalls. "It was a feeling of only more nothingness beyond each horizon." (Jehad Nga/The New York Times) *FIRST IN A SERIES OF 11 PHOTOS. ADV10
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