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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 ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Uzbek, Venera Koicheva of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Kyrgyz, Temtsel Hao of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Chinese and Daud Junbish of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Afghan.

Image: Catalonian merchants on the Silk Road from the 'Catalan Atlas' of 1375
Credit: Hulton Archive/Getty Images

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