a cross or emphasizing the award winning offer is available worldwide. every language level reading gentleman has never been since the visa, who wrote component about 700 years ago from italy to my home country of china and cells and quito meters all the way to the parts of the legendary ruler of the one going on. the working the same route, but marco polo took, i wonder how much his journey stories have shaped the world and

how much his name means to both europe. an anxious the living china for 17 years as being in europe for 14 walking around his hometown of venice. i'm reminded of the nights i left china and the sense of stepping into the unknown. i imagine young michel tunnel must have felt as to say, it must have been a challenge for him 700 years ago. and it would probably be a challenge for me now as well. especially with the language that i don't know. what are the leading? well, in cordova school in goodness, i miss young athletes from both china and a so we're competing in the address of adult race. it's

a one of many vents being held to mark the $700.00 a year anniversary of marco polo stuff started by sports helps to bring us close. so it's a common ground that we can share with foreign countries. prices bring it in the, to my surprise, i discovered that even st. louis university has its own track in boat racing team. here in tulsa. i should be good with serendipity and then you should actually mentioned go who graduation from the university in venice. and she was working in jo to what i so even had she invited me to join the dragon boat team. it's a chain. suppose it's about the joy of working to get a higher rowing in different places, collective pride, the connection between humans and nature. please actual value,

a sense of when the truck in both race is called the marco polo. the chatting at a venture has remained a household name to this day during icon through the centuries. but why is he still so well know? what is it about his journey that it continues to inspire generations, including people like me and so many young people, hundreds of us later. i realize that in the city where my component was born and raised, there's no statute of him. we don't even know what he looked like as known. painting of him was made during his lifetime. his image instructed by ones because

this is only museums, historical archives, and the most importantly in the book, the troubles of marco polo, which he didn't to right himself. after returning from his 24 year check, he was taken prisoner during a war between fitness engine on his cell, met the stick. hello, the pizza. they've done marco polo said to ventures, and it became the most influential and detailed your pin, a kind of aisha, shaping the west front seats. about the east for centuries, filipinos, that for the 1st time, a book showed aisha. it's mostly to asia populations by monstrous creatures and full of wonders. it's an extremely concrete aisha made up of course, a valuable codes, silk, precious stones, spices, but also cities of people. for the 1st time, you discover this content novel that they would all pass carpet. it was still

continuing the microphone ocean in great detail in the book. what he does like to travel along the ations. so from but how it would be to travel this to quote, today, i come help. the 131271. it took markup photos 3 years to tell some good news to try to buy nations. i buy to and do you know, 64 and 67 years old, respectively. i'm to complete the same route in just a 100 days, from bicycles, compliment performer such as we want to pay tribute to our fellow citizen with his journey, nor following his foot steps. when building this 12 points to paint a picture of what the soup rude is and the 3rd molest the end of the,

of the let's say fact that that somebody with just 2 bags each and the camera monkey to under handlebars. the 2 friends, picking the attorney from the european gateway of the suit, crowd bins the the document to the entire journey. as a video diary for marco polo is the desire to new, the desire to understand they must be strategic about their choice. a few. as to political attentions and the safety of the 1st things they must consider, they will do to fight. it looks like we had to slalom between wars. we had an absolutely avoid russia and we wanted to and had to avoid ukraine. flying around is also not so advisable. at this time. of course you've got people were still main access to some countries is unpredictable. the

the enter as a by john unbelievable. the data missile joy. we'd been waiting since noon and already been able to by the way, we will arrive in check, then actually tomorrow afternoon committee to begin. let's face this new leaf into the void into the dark because we are entering turkmenistan, which is in some way a peculiar country place. you know, they say, i say under my breath, the closer the whole check that is 2nd to north korea in terms of curtailing and personal freedoms. i look for a, have been aboard a test. pnc fairy did reach this choice of took my niece to the

o g 3. stage 13 we are in turkmenistan. the marco polo describe the vast harsh deserts of central asia. most likely types of dakota comb desert in modern day took my niece time. nomadic tribes facilitate to trade across this inc. hospitable regions for our that's when do you know, navigating the region by bike? we may see a significant challenge following the ations. so quote, they arrived in bukasa, one of the most well preserved be able to see teasing, central asia, it's urban separate, has to remain largely intact for more than 2 south of use. that'd be to create that bicycle gives you a totally different perspective. the perspective of slowness. it is a magnifying glass that makes you understand the world. yes, but i a pretty big, huge strength to yourself. i'm even do you get into the site,

the panorama. that'd be great if you mean that same feeling that the poodle family also felt going slowly with duncan is a little bit on tumbling by boat, moving off the, the, the chair to sound. so we're trying to get into china. and we can earlier we talked to a place where there was only a highway they sent us back and we had to go around 25 kilometers and came to another highway. so maybe this time it will work on the,

the higher batch on. do you know, have finally across the chinese border, but the attorney isn't over yet. with their small camera, they continue documenting the adventure. they still have more than 4000 kilometers of puddling, had till they reach their final destination. suddenly after a 100 days of trouble, they made it. they reached the capital city. i'm happy to meet them on a hear all about the ventures, the one the logic was eating, particularly when you travel like this on a bicycle because it's nice because you realize that the world is really better than one thinks because people help us. i just, i'm k, l g, even today at 3 o'clock a stranger stopped us and gave us 2 bottles of water and a few thoughts just sort of like you gave example, global theory the left for me to go through or do you hydrates it to that of the

3rd man, so forget i'm of these, these are people helped us so much that the lesson from the symbol if we're still a valid ceiling. judge audit traveling always has to be an active community. you have to get closer to others. you have to share taste food, we have to share chinese taste, which are not really the same as ours. we are not used to them because that's what traveling is a boost of yet. the one of his toys on speaker accomplished something monumental is the to give the

individual all the credit. but the era, the context play some role component was always out to dollars in the right place as incorrectly the right time to leave his marks on history. i make the 2 cyclists again in the turning on the scene badging at a separation for them. until owner component of paula was one of the many travellers so many invoice, one of the many people leaving the, in these a really very diversified and wide space which was the un diagnosed is change the empire. and that you see for a sense when you visit, trying to reach right away in the book or my, my football is called side is what was allowed to call to my, to go to your religious place, where

a lot of people from foreign countries, natalie leave to but also 5 just where a connection to the some are time. see, oh, no worries. far away kind of please. the ancient marie times soap throat beginning trundle, and undertaking venice at home, scrapes taken as i can for researchers wrote white. the cycle of the century of economic power had pushed, the venetians as far as the black sea coast, where the last western outposts were not getting there. and there was an encounter there with a foreign power that did something exceptional and incomparable. in human history. the mongols managed to go from a mass of semi nomadic tribes, quarrelling with each other, into a military power capable of unifying under one power. all of continental agent. basically from korea to the borders of turkey with the substance of

this or related conditions that had never been seen before in which anyone could travel freely throughout asia without risking their lives a bit. i mean, that was the key thing that goes up on them in the starting the peak of the among gold chains florist along the extending from the terrain to china, turning the cheese cities along the roads into vibrant hospitals. don't yet where i am no one that's 6 with the population of more than 1000000. julia is by no means are particularly large international city in the vast expense of china today. but one, marco polo arrived here. it was

a true metropolitan hop going around. chung here i have discovered that many of the historical sites he mentioned in his book can still be found today. matt t. a temple comes on in the sub groups of john here, posts statues, and one paintings that dates back to the dentist. marco polo wasn't particularly familiar with buddhism, referring to it's a speakers, as i don't think today's china various forms of buddhism remained vibrant alonza ation. so from chung, you, a staff for 10 polls were legend says cool. like con was for marco polo also substituting site. the,

the, the, the from a component of what to walk around. chung you today. people would surely stop and stare in as a frame or a very team and around the city. but during his visit 700 years ago, he could have been just one of many people was colored eyes as the un administration categorize them. so i think that the significance is that local follow is a one of the mainly, or leave the indies, a job offer late globalization. and of course, the south of china was extremely sophisticated. the very develop turnville at the southern trace of china just across from taiwan is a city where every religion funding china is representative. this is on the whole thing to take all the code to you. really like to get a,

you'll hear something home by with a 100 look on the top cushion. he will produce your microphone or system home. just as soon as the terms of the city of trent. joe, you will fight or religious sites, almost every streets christianity. buddhism go is some confusion in some islam and the more i'll call you because this here just it's let me community dates back to the 7th century. and the oldest mocking china is located here. even the long lost the religion of many keys and has left its mark. the only set you of many can be found in the suburbs of check joe, the thing chiron, temple a boot decides in the city center, you can even find statues of king to come and calls like tons, rules, things

a certain century triangle was as diverse religions an emergence from all over the wall. it was like modern day new york. it was the growth, mary time change centers during the summer, a new un tennis. it's hard to say whether on road is more open now than it was 700 years ago. but the city's length of time he in turn joel, were on don't the more international and opened during marco polos times, the it was through my co pulse descriptions that the europe 1st came to know a china in such detail inside the china millennium monument, a release depicts a 100 his target coffee goes shaped chinese history. marco polo is one of the only 2 for a nurse, including the music

sedition was called the soft diploma. so we want to reach culture is for the meaning of addition is the green g, china and photo wings to ration getting by by michael porter, except the a beast chide best a site calling it we chose to have in our exhibition because inspiring. he's telling the story of west meeting the east georgette just titled, are you telling art his target and the one of the exhibitions curators has lived in china for almost 10 years. i remember the 1st time i lived in virginia, i was speaking to someone last the dollars that i still have the light impressing

my mind is now the sound. all those products, as i clicked on this sent anything. so that's the way i really so about the portal and folders travelers back to the time because i was feeling and i was thinking about how brave a way to go to. so this thing that we don't know the one side of the med though is that you're on the on known but on the other side there is the excitement of learning so much. i remember i was feeling so impatient because i need to know i need to know everything. now. i wonder how my co pulse out when he finally arrived in time for them to i went to visit the places marco polo ones travel to such as it was

back is done in places like turkey was in the south. i truly want to visit these places. you guys originally i only knew about his exchange between china in italy, but i didn't realize he encountered so many other interesting things you're supposed to do. but now i feel an even stronger desire to visit these places and see them for myself. but we're thinking now current and future cultural exchanges. this also also has some insights. nowadays, the exchanges between countries around the world are becoming more frequent, and we continually commemoration reflect on these interactions in the future and how social lives are we can be more inclusive and open to embrace the desires coaches from all over the world. engaging in friendly social interactions, even in cultural creation. for example, in the place we are now. there are many creation books behind us created by children based on marco polo and the cultural exchange between china and easily

going economy reform. this is a what a 10 year old child. think of me and i like this one very much because this is the imagination of how marco polo. ha, ha ha. and what part is actually quite a popular dish packs, then they run diagnostics. so, so very beautiful one, the, it's, the wonder loves the service to florida venture that drives us to explore a world that a few so distant and the cultures that same so different it's just a bear. it's a thanks flora. just for every explorer of the comes on time when the pool of home grow stronger and the journey in actively leads us back to where with the con,

only when we traveled so far, the which truly understand the meaning of home. just as only after saving aisha color for lake rus, when you're of is what it is. it has said that marco polo left china function joke, most likely from this very flight. through of history, the west has often viewed the east with a mix of fussy nation and fear. but today that sense has become beautiful to me, europe and asia has often me read each other, reflecting both the differences and the shared humanity. in any event, that them is the freedom of the gaze before and the put thing aside of prejudices.

curiosity said the other without arrogance, without a sense of superiority. marco polo is much a device to feed, unlike other travelers because he does not approach the other, trying to concourse. it meets him. and it is truly one of the, and count as a now history that has brought us the most often it's through cultural traditions like a jet and both ways that we are reminded how we all share that piece of history together within $7000.00. so in today's society, although communication has been so developed, we actually should learn more from marco polo, his spirit of exchange, width and tolerance for different cultures. the whole international situation is not very encouraging at the moment josephine so we need more tolerance at the end of the fall when the color came to china and the 13th

century, the emperor coupla khan aust, you've told so many stories. why have you never mentioned your hometown venice? marco polo replied because oh my stories contained my hometown go today. i can come from china to moncrief. polos hometown. it's meaningful and through dragon boat racing. it feels like i've come full circle back to venice. only how our sites, the perhaps we humans are wired to feel what is different and also means year. which makes the moment we recognize our collective humanity. all the more for from the

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