The Salt Road

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Timetables show main stops. For routes with a return journey, you may need to scroll down to view details. The porters, too, differed from their Five Highways counterparts. Called bokka, literally “walking loads,” they were often farmers and their wives. They traveled in groups of ten or more, sometimes accompanied by beasts of burden, primarily oxen and horses. Horses were well-suited for the flat sections of the road, but oxen proved their worth by their ability to navigate the treacherous mountain paths with sure-footed precision.

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It is through Mariata that we learn much about the culture of the nomadic people of the Sahara region and about how this long tradition is under threat from modern politics. I found this particularly fascinating, especially in how women are regarded in the desert peoples' society. Bus stops at Everoak Trading Estate, Boughton Avenue, Broadway Grove and Grove Crescent cannot be served during this closure.Braudel, Fernand (1982). The Wheels of Commerce. Civilisation and Capitalism 15th–18th Century. Vol.II. New York: Harper & Row. This walk passes through an area that was once one of the most industrial parts of the Wolds, where ironstone was mined for nearly 40 years. Due to works to a sign on the railway bridge at Broadway Grove, service 30 will need to divert in both directions to and From Dines Green between 0900 and 1530. This walk links the villages of Fulletby, Tetford and Belchford and the hamlet of Salmonby, taking in woods, fields, lakes and spectacular views. Walking holidays are, no pun intended, all about the ups and downs. And it was somewhere near the village of Castellaro that I first began to question my decision. With rain coming in sideways, my muddy path turning rapidly into a muddy stream, I began to wonder why I had thought it such a fine idea to walk just shy of 100 kilometres through Liguria, from the heart of Oltrepo Pavese to the sea.

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Braudel, Fernand (1984). The Perspective of the World. Civilisation and Capitalism. Vol.III. New York: Harper & Row. For readers looking to experience a shifting, disappearing world, and to be introduced to an exotic culture with evocative descriptions, The Salt Road is an exhilarating ride. Part historic and part contemporary, with universal themes of betrayal, love, and the anguish caused by human greed, it has an ending rich and fulfilling enough for those who like all their questions answered.” The Incense Route developed to transport frankincense and myrrh, which are only found in the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula (modern Yemen and Oman). Frankincense and myrrh are both derived from tree sap that’s dried in the Sun; these nuggets of sap can then be burned as incense or used as perfume, and were also popular in burial rituals to aid embalming. The camel was domesticated around 1000 BCE and this development allowed the Arabs to begin transporting their valuable incense to the Mediterranean, an important trade hub. Frankincense and myrrh became a significant commodity for the Romans, Greeks, and Egyptians—it was said the Roman emperor Nero had a whole year’s harvest of frankincense burned at the funeral of his beloved mistress.She opens the box and finds an unusual amulet, obviously foreign and old. With it is some notes referring to the grave of a Moroccan woman where the amulet was found. It seems to point to Morocco.