Silk Road

Out of Eden Walk: Trekking through Uzbekistan

May 31, 2024Out of Eden Walk

The Silk Road in Uzbekistan was a caravan route, a path for explorers and traversed by Soviet-era train tracks. National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek tells host Carolyn Beeler about this Central Asian country that has been a thoroughfare for explorers, traders and conquerors across the centuries. He crossed it on foot as part of his 24,000-mile Out of Eden Walk.

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A screenshot of the Silk Road website, allegedly an underground online drug market, after it was closed by U.S. authorities November 6, 2014.

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