a promise remains attractive around the world as they expand their port network there gaming new allies willing to harvard. their am bishop the. the visa who wrote component about 700 years ago from italy to my home country of china and sells and ketone meters. all the way to the porch 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. so 14, working around his hometown of venice. i'm reminded of the nights i left the 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 to 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 they leaving? well, in colorado school, in venice, i miss young accidents 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 year anniversary of marco polo stuff started as bush 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 graduated from the university in venice. and she was working in jo to and i so even had to go, she invited me to join the tracking boat to georgia. it's a change both. it's about the joy of working together, a higher rowing in different places, collective pride, the connection between humans and nature. feedback. so evaluate 7 to begin with

when the truck in both race is called the marco polo the champion, adventure 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 years later. i realize that in the city where my component was born 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 of his image instructed by one because

it 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 checking, he was taken prisoner during a war between fitness and genoa. his cell met those decarlo, the pizza. they've done marco polo set adventures, 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, invaluable foods, silks, precious stones, spices, but also cities of people. for the 1st time, you are discovered this content of all 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 that station. so from but how it would be to travel this to quote today, i can help the starting thing 1271. it took a part of 3 years to tell some of the news to try to venetians. i battle and d no. 64 and 67 years old, respectively. i am to complete the same route in just a 100 days, from bicycles on the top of my performer, such as we want to pay tribute to our fellow citizen with his journey, nor following and his boot steps. so gwendolen as 12 points to paint a picture of what the soup rude is and the 3rd molest me and the other. let's say

that that that somebody with just 2 bags each and the camera monkey to under handlebars. the 2 friends, picking their attorney from the european gateway of the sioux crowd, been 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 the ability to fight. it looks like we had a slalom between wars. we had an absolutely avoid russia and we wanted to and had to avoid ukraine kindly to fly around is also not so advisable. at this time. pushing god was so main accessed to some countries is unpredictable.

the the internet as a by john unbelievable. the data we've been waiting since noon already been able to by the way, we will arrive in check then actually tomorrow afternoon committee to begin. let's face this new leak into the void into the dark because we are entering trick menace done. which is in some way, a peculiar country. they say, i say under my breath, the close of the whole check that is 2nd to north korea in terms of curtailing a personal freedoms. i look for a, have been aboard a test. pnc fairy did reach the shores of took my niece to are

all g 3. stage 13 we are in turkmenistan. the marco polo describe the vast harsh deserts a central asia most likely types of to cut a comb desert in modern day to commodities, time. nomadic tribes facilitated trade across this inc. hospitable regions for our that's when do you know navigation, the region by bike, we may see a significant challenge following the ation. so quote, they arise in bukosa, one of the most well preserved be able see teasing, central asia. it's urban separate, has to remain largely intact for more than 2 se, that'd be too late. that bicycle gives you a totally different perspective. the perspective of slowness is a magnifying glass that makes you understand the world. yes, but i a pretty big, huge strength to yourself. you get into the site,

the panorama. that'd be great if you mean that same feeling that the polio family also felt going slowly with duncan is a little bit on food tumbling by boat or airplane movie. and off the top of the night, the sheer to sound that we're trying to get into china. and we can earlier, we thought to a place where there was only a highway and 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 tire batch on. do you know, have, finally you cross the chinese border, but the attorney isn't over and 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. finally, after a 100 days of trouble, they've made it. they've reached the capital city. i'm happy to meet them and hear all about the ventures the bundle. yeah. because even 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. but not just uncle 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 what for me to come to where do you hide,

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

individual or the credit for the iraq, the context, play some role component for so without adults in the right place, i think exactly the right time to leave his marks on history. i mean the, to cyclists, again in the turning on the scene badging at a separation for them and to owner component medical follow was one of the many travelers, so many invoice, one of the many people leaving in these a really very diversified and wide space which was the un diagnosed is change the empire and use it for a sense when you visit, trying to reach right away in the book or my microphone. i was called inside this what was allowed to call to my to go about the religious place, where

a lot of people from foreign countries i'm only leave to but also 5 to where a connection or through the some are time. see to do with far away, please. the ations marie times soap fraud, beginning trundle, and under teen venice. it hold scrapes taken as i can for researchers, road white. the cycle of the 1st century of economic power had pushed, the venetians, as far as the black sea coast, where the last western outposts working on the map. 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,

they took that as the 29th to sunset investment 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 comes up on them in the starting the peak of the among bulky chains florist along the extending from the terrain to china, turning the cheese cities along the roads into a vibrant hospital strong. yet where i am no one that sticks with a population of more than 1000000, joan yet is by no means are particularly large international city in the vast expense of china to day. but one, marco polo arrived here. it was

a 2 metropolitan hop going around. chung here, i've discovered that many of the historical sites he mentioned in his book can still be fun. today. matt t, a temple comes on in the sub groups of john here, post statues, and one paintings that dates back to those when diagnosed 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 along the ations, so prompt chung, you staff for 10 polls were legend says coup like homeless for marco polo. also substituting site the

the, the, the from a component of what to look 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 marco polo 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. todd, this is on the open, tulip take all the consulting the way to giving you something. hold on,

i will hundreds, look on the top cushion. he will produce your microphone or causing the system home . since i've seen the city of china, joe, you will fight or religious sites almost every states christianity. buddhism taoism confucianism is some more i'll call you because this here just if let me community states back to the 7th century and the oldest mosque in china is located here. even the long last the religion of many keys has left its mark. the only set you of many can be found in the suburbs of check joe, the thing chiron, tempo, a boot decides in the city center, you can even find statues of seem to come and or to fly tons,

rules thing. the 13th century triangle was as diverse religions, an emergence from all over the wall. it was less modern day, new york. it was the rose, murray, time of trade centers during the summer. a new gun cabinet is hard to say whether on road is more open. now than it was 700 years ago. but the city's length of time he and turn joel were on the more international and open during marco polo time. 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 tardy coffee goes shaped chinese history. marco polo, it's a one of only 2 for a nice include the

he's execution was all the so we want to reach culture is for the meaning of the 6 addition is the green g and china and photo wings to ration getting signed by michael for right so the obese chide best a site core, and if we choose to have in our exhibition because inspiring, is telling the story of west meeting the east georgette just title, and you tell me an art historian and a one of the exhibitions curators has lived in china. for almost 10 years, i remember the 1st time i loved living by gene, i was speaking to someone last the dollars to that i still have the lighting

pressing my mind is now the sound. all those products, as i clicked on this sent anything. so that way i really so about the portal and folders travelers back to the time because i was thinking about how brave they were to go to. so the sense that we don't know the one side of the med though, if you're on the unknown, 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

biggest done and places like turkey wizards in this house. 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 offers us 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 cultures 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 is created by children based on marco polo and

the cultural exchange between china and easily calling you before this is a what a 10 year old child think of each lee. 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 fixed, then they run diagnostics. so, so very beautiful. one, the, it's the wonder of 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 only one

we've traveled so far, which truly understand the meaning of home. just as the only after so you can aisha color full a grass way you're of is what it is. it has said that marco polo left china function joke, most likely from this. verified the through of history. the west has often viewed the east with a mix of fussy nation and fear. but today, that's the sense has to become mutual. to me, europe and asia has often me read each other, reflecting both the differences and the shared humanity. in any event that the freedom of the gays and the put thing aside,

just prejudices. curiosity said the other, without arrogance, without a sense of superiority. marco polo is not 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 encounters now history that has brought us the most often it's through cultural traditions. thanks jack and both christine, that we are reminded how we all share that piece of history together, the questions and sounds. and so in today's society, although communication has been so developed, we actually should learn more from marco polo despaired of exchange width and tolerance for different cultures. the whole international situation is not very encouraging at the moment josephine so we need more dollars into the

more with not the kola, 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 mockery polos hometown. it's meaningful and through drag and boat racing, it feels like i've come full circle back to venice. sides of the perhaps we humans are wired to feel what is different, an unfamiliar which makes the moment we recognize our collective humanity. all the more for from the,

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