Travel on the Silk Road

西安市, China, January 9, 2015 (Newswire.com) - "When a man is riding through this desert by night and for some reason -falling asleep or anything else -he gets separated from his companions and wants to rejoin them, he hears spirit voices talking to him as if they were his companions, sometimes even calling him by name… Before they go to sleep they set up a sign pointing in the direction in which they have to travel, and round the necks of all their beasts they fasten little bells, so that by listening to the sound they may prevent them from straying off the path."---- Marco Polo, Travels

The TV drama "Marco Polo”, which is based on the famed explorer's adventures in Kublai Khan's court in 13th century China, has been a hit on Netflix recently and caused a great fever of interest in Marco Polo and his travels. Marco Polo is probably the most famous Westerner to travel on the Silk Road to China and his tales, documented in ‘The Travels of Marco Polo,’ opened Western eyes to some of the customs of the Far East.

The Silk Road is a series of trade and cultural transmission routes that were central to cultural interaction through regions of the Asian continent connecting the West and East by linking traders, merchants, pilgrims, monks, soldiers, nomads, and urban dwellers from China and India to the Mediterranean Sea. The Silk Road was named from the lucrative Chinese silk trade, which was a major reason for the connection of trade routes into an extensive transcontinental network.

However, where exactly was the Silk Road? Why was it so important to Chinese history and even world history? Was Marco Polo’s description of it accurate? The Chinese tourism platform LVPAD.COM is able to answer your questions by allowing you to discover a real Silk Road, along with beautiful sculpted landscapes, and figure out why the Silk Road was a significant factor in the development of the civilizations of China and of the World.

Go to LVPAD.COM to check out this 15-Day Adventure Tour of the Ancient Silk Road.