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Travel the Footsteps of Ancient Merchant and Great Explorer's of China's Silk Road 17 Days

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  •  Duration: 17 Days
  •  Comfort:   66.6666666666667%
  •  Language: English
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  •  Trip ID: 51796
  •  Start Location: Dearing, United States
  •  End Location: Beijing, China
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  •  Primary Activities: Local Culture & Cuisine
  •  Other Activities: Hiking, Caving, museum
All roads led to Rome, but the Silk Road is singular in its historical significance. Actually a vast network of interconnected caravan routes that stretched for over 5,000 miles, it enabled the exchange of products and ideas between ancient China and Europe, Persia, Egypt, India and Mesopotamia. It generated transcontinental development among the world’s cultures, engendering civilization as we know it. The Silk Road is thus the very backbone of history. 

The routes converged at great centers in China’s western region, giving rise to fabulously diverse cities smack in the middle of some of the world’s most inhospitable terrain. Ancient epicenters of exchange—their heyday behind them—these oases seem locked in amber, and offer the modern traveler an unparalleled opportunity to grasp the movement of ideas, technologies and religions across continents throughout the past 4,000 years. 

The Chinese invention of silk was a closely guarded secret for nearly 5,000 years. A ravenous demand for this superior fabric developed in the upper echelons of societies as far away as Rome, and the Silk Road was born. The route also saw the exchange of jade, lapis lazuli, gold, bronze, myrrh, spices, porcelain and weaponry. The Road also hosted the transmission of artistic and architectural influences, Chinese technologies such as printing, papermaking, mapmaking and the compass, and the spread of Buddhism, Christianity and Islam. 

Layer upon layer of culture and tradition—from regions far flung and removed—are revealed in the fertile oases along the Road, a living palimpsest of humanity’s history. Travel with us, in the footsteps of ancient merchants and great explorers, along the greatest thoroughfare ever known.
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