Travelling the Silk Road: From London to Beijing - a talk
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Travelling the Silk Road: From London to Beijing - a talk

Over a period of four months in 2019, I travelled 40,000km overland by car, bus, train, ferry, horse and camel from London to Beijing traversing sixteen countries.

In this talk, I share my experiences of the varied people, places and cultures I encountered and speak about the work of the Aga Khan Development Network along this most celebrated of trade routes.

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The train from Podgorica to Belgrade
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The train from Podgorica to Belgrade

A couple of years ago an intrepid friend of mine spoke of a train journey through the Balkans that sounded like no other. She described a line that connected present day Podgorica in Montenegro to Belgrade in Serbia crossing a spectacular mountain range.

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