Monday, May 10, 2010

In the Footsteps of Marco Polo video


I just watched a 90 minute documentary on PBS.  It's about two Americans who retraced Marco Polo's journey in the early 1990s, right after the fall of the Soviet Union.  The production value is so-so but the story is amazing.  You can watch the entire documentary online.  My favorite parts include:

  • World of Warlords (their meeting with a Northern Alliance warlord and being kidnapped by AK-47 brandishing Hazaras).
  • Through the Wakhan Corridor.
  • The Deserts of Western China (Kashgar and the Talkamakan).
  • Mongolia and Tibet.

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