Cherchen Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
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About Cherchen
Cherchen is a river oasis town along the southeastern rim of the Taklamakan Desert in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China. It is the largest town east of Khotan in southern Xinjiang. This area has a truly ancient human history, based on the 3,500-year-old cemetery along the ancient Jade Road that traded with the earliest Chinese dynasties and the similarly dated Bronze Age rock carvings south of town along another ancient trade route to what is now Tibet and a forgotten back door to central China. More than a thousand years later, the area was ruled as the kingdom of Calmadana during the earliest heyday of the Silk Road. Its fortunes have since ebbed and flowed, mainly with the popularity of the southern trade route: sometimes abandoned, as when Buddhist monk Xuan Zang passed th
Top Attractions in Cherchen
Explore the best things to see and do in Cherchen:
- ★Ancient Ruins
- ★Hunting Park
- ★Kunlun Square
- ★Molcha River Rock Carvings
- ★Museum
- ★Tatleksu Jade Mine
- ★Tazhong Oil Field
- ★Uyghur Neighborhood
Cherchen Travel Guide Sections
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