Enter China from Laos at Mohan and spend 23 days driving from tropical Yunnan to the Kazakh border. In Xishuangbanna, you can walk beneath the palms at Menglun before climbing into the terraced hills of Yuanyang. Further north, the Leshan Giant Buddha looks out over the meeting of three rivers. Chengdu follows, with time to see giant pandas and spend a separate day exploring People’s Park, Kuanzhai Alley and Jinli Ancient Street.
From Xi’an’s Terracotta Army, the journey turns west towards Qinghai Lake, where you’ll spend the night before crossing the mountains into Gansu. At Jiayuguan, the fortress gates overlook the desert corridor you’ll follow towards Dunhuang and the painted caves of Mogao.
Xinjiang brings one of the sharpest changes of scenery on the trip. Beyond Turpan’s dry basin and the plains west of Urumqi, the road climbs to Sayram Lake, framed by grassland and the Tian Shan Mountains. From the lakeshore, descend into the Ili Valley for a final night in Yining before crossing into Kazakhstan at Horgos.
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