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Monday, 29 October 2012

Revisiting the Southern Silk Road

Part 1-Border of the ancient kingdom of Shu

Part 2- The megalithic tombs

Part 3- The lost kingdom of Dian

Part 4- South of the rainbow

Part 5- Road to the West

Source: CCTV

Posted by Hans van Roon at 22:12

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Hans van Roon: Rotterdam, Netherlands; My fascination for these subjects started in the '80 's by reading the book of Peter Hopkirk about the travels and explorations of Aurel Stein in Central Asia at the beginning of the 20th century. Over the Silk Road through Central Asia, the Taklamakan Desert, Bokhara and Samarkand I arrived in the 13th century and followed the building of a world empire by Genghis Khan, his sons and grandsons. His most famous grand son was Khubilai Khan and with him I ended in the Yuan Dynasty in the time when Marco Polo visited China and since than I never stopped reading

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