In opposition to the modern trade of your usual busy Chinese shopping mall, Beijing Road Pedestrian Mall, Guangzhou hides a well-kept secret, layers of China’s original trade route the Old Silk Road. Only discovered in 2002, the remnants over 3 dynasties – Song, Ming and Yuan are encased in glass and I found them fascinating to study and ponder. I remember hearing about the Old Silk Road as a child but I don’t think I realised how much action these roads had seen since the seventh century or the Old Silk Road’s true impact in opening up the world as it was then. Now I understood why I loved reading Marco Polo when I was in primary school as it really was describing a history so different from anything Australia had ever known.
Fascinating!
very interesting! in Cape Town we have similar a glass encased area in a shopping mall of old waterways which the Cape of Good Hope Castle with water
Its amazing what they can discover isn’t it?
We only find arrow heads around here. That is much more mesmerizing!
Sounds like a fascinating trip. Thanks for sharing what you saw.
Fantastic. A monotony of malls, mammoth structures, streets broken by the glass encases.