The four-member team will cover over 17.000km of road between China and France going through Kazakhstan, the Caspian sea, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey, Greece, Albania, Montenegro, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia, Italy and Monaco, cumulating a total of 14 countries they will explore.
Much of the journey will follow the trace of the ancient caravans along the Silk Road.
The History of the Silk Road begins in China during the second century B.C when the emperor of the Han dynasty decided to forge military alliances with kingdoms west of his northwestern archenemy the Xiongnu (or Hun) tribes. Thirty years later, General Zhang came back from his trip and enthralled the court with information about the thirty-six commercially vibrant kingdoms west of China’s frontier. It precipited Chinese invasions and the conquest of all lands between China and the Ferghana Valley. Fifty years later, Roman legions reported seeing wonderfully bright banners made of a marvelous, new textile. Soon a route appeared between Chang’An and the Roman empire along which Asian and European merchants traded gold, gems, perfumes and textiles against jade, silk, bronze and lacquer objects. Named in the 1870′s by the German geographer, Baron von Richthofen, as the “seidenstrasse” or Silk Road, the Silk Road was in reality a wide East-West network of interconnecting routes linking various Central Asian Kingdoms such as those of Bukhara, Samarkand, Bishkek and Islamabad in the west with major China cities : most notably Chang’an (Xian).
The map below allows you to see all the hot and breath taking spots we will visit during our expedition.
During our trip we will update and add every single places, monuments, museums or villages which make this trip worth been taken.
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