the Taklamakan Desert
the Takla Makan Desert

It is a river town on the edge of the Taklamakan Desert.

He came close to death while crossing the Taklamakan Desert in 1990.

In 1993 he was a member of the first expedition to cross the Taklamakan Desert from west to east.

The Taklamakan Desert has very little water; therefore it is hazardous to cross.

Li's army had to cross the Taklamakan Desert and his supplies soon ran out.

The northern part hosts the city center, while the southern part is occupied by the Taklamakan Desert.

The Taklamakan Desert dominates much of the basin.

Across the Taklamakan Desert to the south was Khotan.

There is also an ancient route leading north across the Taklamakan Desert to Korla.

From Kashgar, merchants went either north and south, skirting the Taklamakan Desert.

Much of the Tarim Basin is dominated by the Taklamakan Desert.

To the northwest in China lies the Taklamakan Desert, which is made up of 85 per cent shifting sands.

There are estimated to be around 30,000 Äynu people, mostly located on the fringe of the Taklamakan Desert.

Niya - in the Taklamakan Desert, on the ancient Silk Road route.

The Taklamakan Desert is also in Xinjiang.

The Tarim flows in an eastward direction around the northern edge of the Taklamakan Desert.

Another site in the Taklamakan Desert depicts him with four legs, seated cross-legged on a cushioned seat supported by two bulls.

This is a characteristic hydrographic feature of many rivers that traverse the sands of the Taklamakan Desert.

In 1900, Aurel Stein set out on an expedition to western China and the Taklamakan Desert.

They lie near the northern rim of the Taklamakan Desert and east of the city of Turpan.

The Taklamakan Desert ecoregion includes the Desert of Lop.

In Eastern Turkestan in the Taklamakan Desert.

The Taklamakan Desert of the Tarim is too dry to support much grass, and therefore lacked nomads likely to rob caravans.

Both groups headed along the edge of the Taklamakan Desert to Yarkand, then south-west into the mountains to Tashkurgan.

Historic Anxi was a major town, where the northern and southern Silk Roads around the Taklamakan Desert diverged.

N3 in action, from Paris discothèques to the Takla Makan Desert, on the track of a Chinese doctor's fantastic discovery so awesome that the fate of mankind hung in the balance.

Eva’s part of “A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar” is filled with incident: an aborted pregnancy, rioting, violence, death, unburied ­corpses pecked by birds, an epic escape along the edge of the Takla Makan Desert.