Silk Road Holidays & Travel

The Silk Routes (commonly collectively known as the 'Silk Road') were not only conduits for silk, but also for many other products. They were very important paths for cultural and technological transmission which linked traders, merchants, pilgrims, missionaries, soldiers, nomads and urban dwellers between China, India, Persia and Mediterranean countries for over two thousand years.

Extending over 4,000 miles, the routes enabled people to transport trade goods, especially luxuries such as silk, satins and other fine fabrics, perfumes, spices, and medicines, jewels, glassware and even rhubarb, whilst simultaneously serving as a conduit for the spread of knowledge, ideas, cultures, and diseases between different parts of the world in China, India, Asia Minor and the Mediterranean.

Abercrombie & Kent's Silk Road holidays and travel are the perfect way to explore this unique region.