Travel down the Silk Road with Bob & Wilma

The Silk Road is an ancient trade ROUTE that consists of many roads through many countries extending from China to the Mediterranean Sea.

In the Chinese city of Xian, there is a monument to it's beginning. The routes were long, dusty, difficult and isolated, often cold and usually done with Bactrian camels.

The Silk Road crossed Uzbekistan and several of the roads met in Samarkand making it a center of commerce and culture.

All along the 4,000 miles of the Silk Road, about the distance a camel could walk in a day (40 K or 24 miles), a caravanserai was built.

Here the caravan merchants could rest in safety, have nourishment, do repairs and find medical attention. Certainly, much trade was also conducted in them.

Khiva, a beautiful ancient walled city, must have had many caravanserais and is probably the best preserved but the most remote of all the cities on the Silk Road in Central Asia.

Photos and story courtesy of Bob & Wilma.

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