I got my bags packed on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good

in my passport photo.

Amateur Traveler episode 436.

It was the route of Marco Polo and still brings back images of caravans.

Join us today as we explore China's portion of the Silk Road in the Gansu Province.

I know that I should be heading home, but maybe not, maybe not

today.

Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen.

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I'd like to welcome back to the show Lee Moore from Silk Road Hitchhikers.com, who has come to talk to us about the Gansu province of China and the Silk Road.

Lee, welcome back to the show.

Thanks, it's great to be back, Chris.

And this is the fourth show that Lee and I are doing on China, well Lee doing most of the work here.

The first three being Beijing as an independent traveler,

and then we did a show on three weekend trips you could take from Shanghai

And then the third one was on the Yunnan province of China if I've got those correct.

Yeah, that's correct.

Can you put the Gansu province on the map for us?

Sure, it's right kind of connecting

central China to the western portion of China, what you think of as more of kind of weaker territory.

It's pretty much Gansu is defined by the Silk Road.

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