European group uses Silk Route to reach Kashmir - first trip since '47

News Type: Event — Seeded on Mon Oct 22, 2007 9:50 PM EDT

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In a bid to revive one of the world's oldest trade routes, the Silk Route, a group of dedicated travelers from Europe has successfully traversed one side of the historic route and reached its important destination, the Kashmir Valley. Frail yet energetic, Tina Jokinen, 42, an Estonian national, and her team covered over 11,000 kms through dense forests, deserts, rivers, rough roads, and mountains of different countries in their 45-day trip to reach Kashmir. Tina and her colleagues achieved the feat of being the first after 1947 to reach Kashmir through the route which had direct bearing on the history, economy and culture of Central Asia.

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Considered to be the greatest Asian highway, the Silk Road was a lifeline which linked Asia and Europe. Its posts or road stations were great centres of art, culture and wealth. Some of the posts were Kihiva, Khutan, Kashgar, Yarkand, Samarkand, Balakh, Bokhara, Tehran, Mashhad, Baghdad, Hamdan, Jerusalem and Antioch.

Trade on the Silk Road which is an interconnected series of ancient trade routes through various regions of the Asian continent was a significant factor in development of the great civilizations of China, Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia, Indian subcontinent, and Rome, and helped to lay the foundations for the modern world.

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