The Silk Road — Season 1, Episode 12: China: Gobi

Episode synopsis

A Uyghur family invites our guide into their home. He learns about their way of life and growing techniques. Gaochang used to be an important waypoint through the Silk Road and a famous gathering place for scholars.

About The Silk Road

Alfred de Montesquiou, a war correspondent for the Associated Press news agency and a journalist for Paris Match – for which he has covered most of the Arab Spring revolutions – will be our knowledge broker along the Silk Road, the mythical network of trade routes that for centuries linked the Far East to the West. Follow in the footsteps of illustrious predecessors, from Alexander the Great to Marco Polo. Journey through time, encountering specialists, historians, or just everyday people with a passion who will help you grasp the past and present identities of those countries. From Bursa in Turkey to Xi’an in China, Alfred guides and accompanies you in this fresh and original way to discover History.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1Italy: Venice
• E2Turkey: Bosphorus
• E3Turkey: Anatolia, The Caravans of Asia Minor
• E4Iran: Tabriz, Capital of Merchants
• E5Iran: Assassins, Emperors and Ma
• E6Iran: Kashan and the Zoroastrian Fire Temple of Yazd
• E7Uzbekistan: Bukhara
• E8Uzbekistan: Samarkand
• E9Uzbekistan: Tachkent
• E10Kyrgystan
• E11China: Kashgar
• E13China: Dunhuang