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Stories from the Silk Road
A journey along the ancient Silk Road - with some surprises along the way.
The news has been full of China's One Belt One Road mega-infrastructure project to connect Asia, Europe and the Horn of Africa. It's a sort of modern day version of the ancient Silk Road - and what better opportunity to take a trip of our own. The Fifth Floor follows those famous caravan routes with Rustam Qobil of 蘑菇短视频 Uzbek, Venera Koicheva of 蘑菇短视频 Kyrgyz, Temtsel Hao of 蘑菇短视频 Chinese and Daud Junbish of 蘑菇短视频 Afghan.
Image: Catalonian merchants on the Silk Road from the 'Catalan Atlas' of 1375
Credit: Hulton Archive/Getty Images
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