(Airdate: March 10, 2026) The Flaming Mountains were the scene of one of the Monkey Kings greatest triumphs in the Chinese fable “Journey to the West,” and Bezeklik was the location of some of Silk Road’s finest Buddhist Art. The caves there were carved into the west wall of a sandstone gorge that opens up just enough for a small settlement of Uyghur herders. Beyond, just north of this desolate landscape lie the snowcapped peaks of the Tien Shan mountains, the source of the water that runs through this forbidding world….