Overland Season 15 Episode 2 – Xi'an, where the Silk Roads start

Overland Season 15 Episode 2 – Xi'an, where the Silk Roads start

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With its splendid testimonies of grandeur, the city of Xi'an offers travellers the Terracotta Warriors and the Wild Goose Pagoda. Here Buddhism spread easily thanks to the enormous quantity of people who coexisted in a single territory, despite being of different religions. Even now Muslims organise markets full of culinary resources and trading stalls.

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