Coming Attractions

I plan to expand materials on this site as fast as possible, but ambitions always exceed the time that can be allocated.  Here is a partial list of what is planned:

• More pages on Samarkand, so that all the major architectural monuments will be covered.   In the meantime, photos can be found on the Cities/Buildings Archive (see "More Photos")
• Essays on Bukhara and Khiva
• More pages for Dunhuang
• More historical texts relating to the Silk Road
• Information about maps of Central Asia
• At least a photo essay on Kashgar (many of the pictures are already available on the new version of the Cities/Buildings Archive)
• The Baltoro and Gasherbrum II
• Biking from Kyrgyzstan to Pakistan, via the Karakoram Highway
• The Karatash River valley and "Alps of Kongur"
• Mustagh Ata
• Khan Tengri
• Trekking on the Aktubek to Karavshin route in the Pamir-Alai mountains (a few of the photos are already available via my Mountain Travel page)
• Portraits of the Kyrgyz, a slide show accompanied by the extraordinary Elmira Kochumkulkizi singing Kyrgyz songs
• Mt. Elbrus and the peaks of the Caucasus