Three years ago, Pulitzer-winning journalist Paul Salopek began a decade-long journey around the world on foot. The next phase of the trip will involve walking 3,000 kilometers to China. Salopek’s “Out of Eden Walk” charts the path of human migration from our origins in eastern Africa as our species spread across the globe. While Salopek uses technology at times, he embraces the idea of face-to-face communication or “slow journalism,” allowing him time to interact with the local residents of the regions he passes through and learn first-hand about their culture and history. So far, Salopek has traveled throughout eastern Africa, the Middle East, Eastern Europe and next heads along the ancient Silk Road from Central Asia on his way to China. “I will be a dusty figure leading a horse and then later, in Uzbekistan, a camel, through the modern motorized landscape of globalization,” said Salopek, looking ahead to the next leg of his journey.

Silk Road — an ancient network of trade routes that were central to cultural interaction through regions of the Asian continent connecting the West and East from China to the Mediterranean Sea