The Silk Road
Marco Polo’s journey with his father and uncle in China, to find Kublai Khan in the Mongolian empire. They followed the Silk Road passed through modern Akka (Israel) to the Persian Gulf, then to the north through Iran to Amu Darya, and on to Oksus (Aral sea) through the Pamir mountains to modern Sinkian (an Uigur area) and then finally through the Gobi Desert to Shangtu.