Fwd: silkroad-l NEWS - Women to duplicate Silk Road's trek of old

[Cyndi Korup <poohdrum@yahoo.com>]

Poster: Cyndi Korup <poohdrum@yahoo.com>

Greetings lists.
I share this information to inform others that we are not the only
ones who re-create history.

This comes from the Silk Road list; a scholarly list with no
discussion like we enjoy  *sigh and grin*


> Women to duplicate Silk Road's trek of old 
> 
>      A TEAM of four British young women will embark on a grueling
journey in
> March, that will carry them through the deserts and mountains of
Central
> Asia and China along the ancient Silk Road. 
> 
>      For the first time since the 13th century, the route will be
travelled
> entirely by horse and camel. And the expedition will be completed
exactly
> 700 years after Marco Polo, one of the few documented Silk Road
travelers,
> told his story to a fellow prisoner in a Genoan jail. 
> 
>      The four women, Sophia Cunningham, 25, Lucy Kelaart, 25,
Alexandra
> Tolstoy, 25, and Victoria Westmacott, 24, will begin their journey
on the
> shores of the Caspian Sea and continue through Turkmenistan,
Uzbekistan and
> Kyrgyzstan, before arriving at their final destination, Xi'an,
capital of
> Shaanxi Province,
>      Northwest China, covering a distance of 7,500 kilometres. 
> 
>      The journey was Cunningham's idea. She is now a freelance
journalist,
> and specialized in the history of the Silk Road during her degree
course at
> university.
> 
>      She is also the team leader and has just returned from a 10-week
> reconnaissance mission along the Chinese section of the route. 
> 
>      "There have been few contemporary travelers along the route,"
says Lucy
> Kelaart, who is quitting her job as a political lobbyist for the
trip. "It
> will be physically very demanding _ part of the journey will take us
through
> the Taklamakan Desert." 
> 
>      The women will keep diaries of the trip and have undertaken to
publish
> an account of this venture. And they are also raising awareness and
funds
> for Merlin, a British medical charity that provides emergency aid for
> disaster areas around the world. 
> 
>      
> 
>      Date: 01/16/99
>      Author: 
>      Copyright© by China Daily 
> 
> 

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