In this week’s assignment we got the opportunity to explore an experiment of Paul Salopek’s 24,000 mile journey. Paul went to walk on this journey to experience the pathway that the first humans who had migrated out of Africa in the stone to the world that we know of today. While on this journey he discovered stories about things such as Climate Change to technical innovations and mass migration to cultural survival. He slowly began to find a better understanding of how we got to our new world of today.

With his journey on all these places I choose three places to explore, the first one I choose to “walk through” was Yusan, Yunnan China. Yusan means “umbrella” in mandrian which I found to be a cute fact to know about this place. Yusan is located in Yunnan Province in far southwest China. It is difficult to understand how long this place has been around but its believed to be around the Ming dynasty era because of how old the roads are. China is known for being crossroad of memory and Yusan happens to be apart of it as one of the bridges.

The next spot I choose was Pyla, Cyprus, Paul made a stop here on his 548th day of the voyage which was his 21st milestone. When I was exploring I noticed it’s dry desert-iness but it wasn’t fully deserted it still had some bits of life with the patchy grass. The dry chalky roads stood out to me because it wasn’t something that I had been used to seeing. Just for the looks of Cyprus you can only imagine how hot it is. I would most definitely go see it as it wold be a place out of my comfort zone.

On the last place that I explored was Qafzeh Cave, Israel, which happened to be apart of the holy lands part of Paul’s voyage. From the looks of Israel it is the opposite of Cyprus, it has the less of the dryness look to it. It gives a cool and calm feel to it which looks very peaceful making it seem a very fitting place of me to explore.

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