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Odyssey Traveller’s 31-day fully escorted small group Silk Road tours for seniors take you on a journey across the Eurasian steppe, tracing the ancient trade routes collectively known as the Silk Road. This guided small group tour is for couples and solo travellers, it follows the Silk road across and Turkmenistan. Some tours only offer the , this is not one of them
The facilitated a two-way exchange of goods and ideas and led to the prosperity of cities supplying the routes’ ports and markets of trade. The has a full list of the cities , which includes Guangzhou and Xi'an ( ), Isfahan ( Iran ), and ( ), Jeddah (Saudi Arabia), Baku(Azerbaijan), ( ), and Venice (Italy), these emerging cities show today how built and the regions beyond through the trade of desired goods in both directions. Marco Polo possibly was the first to describe to his scribe sitting imprisoned in Genoa revealed much about the and its importance to both East and the West. But the centuries before showed how silk exceeded the price of gold and was the must have fabric for both sexes, until it was outlawed for men to wear C.
This guided tour will take you to the Silk Road cities and important stops in Kazakhstan(to reach the Silk Road border post of Naryn),Kyrgzstan, and Turkmenistan give deeper knowledge of the Silk Road’s incredible legacy. The history of it is amazing, as are the explorers and archeologists of the Silk Road who in the 19th century had the opportunity to explore and uncover the legacy of over the centuries on a unique section of the road in central asia.
Odyssey Traveller’s , USA and Britain explores how diverse cultures from both east and west, north and south, have shaped this region for over 2,000 years. We will be accompanied throughout the tour by an Odyssey Program Leader. In , there will be English-speaking national guides throughout. Local guides will also be present along the way to assist in the interpretation and presentation of information. This tour is designed for the active senior traveller keen on learning more about history, viewing incredible scenery, and embarking on a unique adventure. To prepare you for this tour we have prepared a reading of list books on the Silk road to read before you join the tour in Almaty.
This tour commences in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The group then heads east to Kegen, where shortly after the group crosses the border and head across to Naryn where we pick up the central line of the Silk road. We continue our to , where we stay in the fascinating Silk Road cities on the of Our final stop on this version of the is , capital of , where the tour concludes its for this small group ion the .
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