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Silk Road: An Unforgettable Trip of a Lifetime

The term “Silk Road” evokes a romantic era when caravans of camels, horses and mules transported everything from jade and gunpowder to pieplant and, of course, silk between the countries. Associated with Coleridge, Marco, Polo, Western notions of the Orient, and fabled trading hubs such as Kashgar and Samarkand, it provides for modern travellers a myth-laden high road through an exotic and wild landscape.

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