This week I was asked to explore National Geographic; this is about the site: Out of Eden Walk; this is the website if you like to view the information I will be writing. The pictures you see in this presentation are just a few places Paul has traveled to, but you can find many more places on this website. Within this site, you have options for viewing, and they are by chapter, location, language, and category, but I will stay with the option Chapter.

https://www.nationalgeographic.org/projects/out-of-eden-walk/#section-0

Paul Salopek is a journalist who has traveled the world and would like to take us on his adventure, named Out of Eden. The travel took ten years to complete, and he traveled 24,000 steps. In Chapter 1, he talks about leaving Africa.

Chapter 1 Milestone 1: Herto Bouri, Elevation 1809 feet
His walk started on January 22, 2013, at Herto Bouri in Ethiopia. His starting plan was to travel the areas of the world where people had fled too. He travels a distance of 24,000 steps and seven years. This travel will end in the year 2020. The people who walked away were hunters and gatherers. They had found fossils and DNA to date the trackback many years ago; specific timing was about 50,000-70,000 years ago. He had planned his path to get to his final destination, including some obstacles he would face, which you can see above.
Before this journey, he flew to his final destination and met with a lady named Cristina Calderón, 84. Knowing she was an older lady and the last person who spoke, Hagan Paul flew to talk to her and hoped he would see her once again at the end of his travel. He looked to her words to carry him through his travels. She happens to be the last full-blood Yaghan speaker.

The next Chapter ad story to review is Chapter 2, The Holy Lands, Walking Jerusalem.
May of 2013 to July of 2014
You enter through om a Bridge of Strings to the great city of Jerusalem. To the residents of Jerusalem, their land is a source of confusion. They have from the least like parts to the most likable parts. The residents from there and the present people there are connected. The movements that he made were significant in this chapter. He traveled downhill to the Valley of the Cross, then went through the Holy Cross Monastery to the spot where the tree they used for the crucifixion grew. Paul continues on his travels because there is still nobody there.

Abraham’s first view of Jerusalem May 7, 2007 View of the Promenade
He leaves the area and proceeds to walk to the Mount of Olives. At the Mount of Olives, there is a place, Pater Noster Church which includes Braille in translation. The Orthodox play games late at night, specifically Backgammon. Towards the end of this section, you see and hear about the cemeteries being destroyed or preserved. We hear of a battle with Palestine about Mount of Olives. To this day, people still travel by camel. Mary’s tomb below is under the hanging lights underground.

Chapter 5 Goodbye to Myanmar May 27, 2021 Editors Pick
We cannot escape grief.
Before leaving Myanmar, he said goodbye to the people with who he stayed. He found these people to be very educated. They were training themselves to resist the government; their training went from bows and arrows to self-defense. Paul realized he had been on the trail of the people who invented bows and arrows. He goes on to explain not only did he follow the creation of bows and arrows, but he has also walked through war, was ambushed by gorillas in Turkey, and when going through Afghanistan, was delayed due to the Taliban.

The forces in Myanmar have killed more than 800 people, including children. Journalists needed assistance as they were in jail, where executions took place; he decided it was best to leave Myanmar and track until he got to the Burmese capital. At this point, he reached 11,000 miles. In China, you can easily walk away, but the grief stays with you. With this, he had to worry for the people that he met there. The people patrolled the streets while this was happening; people talked very low about their desire to leave.

I chose these three stories as they left an impression on my thoughts. Paul went a long way to reach his goal, and he has completed his mission. He is gaining a wealth of knowledge and understanding. As Paul traveled, he knew that he wanted to see the lady again as she was older and had a feeling that may not happen. His travels took him through religious cities where he had respect for the people there; he shined some light into what was necessary to know and finally made his way to the goal he established for himself. Paul tells us the travel could be dangerous. At one point, he needed to take a plane even though he wanted to travel solely by foot. He allows us to feel, hear, and see what his journey has captured. We understand the Holy Land, but that is not from a first-person perspective. He goes into a more excellent knowledge of the areas he traveled to, which makes me very appreciative of his work.