Hello, readers. My name is Manio. If you are reading this journal and you don’t know what year I wrote this journal on, so for your knowledge, it is 1,013 A.D. I’m writing this journal because soon enough I will go to a trip. I was born in France. I’m 16 years old. I don’t like my family. We are a rich family. My dad died and I have 2 brothers. My mom doesn’t like me. She never does what I ask her to do. That is why I’m going to a trip, because I don’t like my family, but there is another reason. I all my life wanted to travel along the Silk Road and know I have my chance because I’m 16 years old which means I’m free to get out of the country alone. But of course I won’t go alone, it is too dangerous. I’m going with my little brother. he is 14 years old and he is the only one in my family that doesn’t hate me. His name is Mario. He and I clean the house. He gets some money but I don’t. Since he is so nice he always gives me some of his money. We will get our money in the trip and we will get food. We will use horses to get to some places but sometimes we will need to use camels. The only danger in this trip will be the bandits.
Tehran:
Our first city we went too was Tehran, the capital city in Iran.
We got out of France with horses and we continued with the horses until we got to Turkey. From turkey we went to Iran in Caravans. If you don’t know Caravans are People who ride on camels together. When we got to Tehran it was a very beautiful city. There were so many people there trading their jewelry, and then I thought this place is even better than France. It was so beautiful. I told Mario, “if we get back alive I want to stay here”. Mario didn’t look really happy about the idea but he agreed. We went on Tehran’s roads and we spoke to people. people were so nice in there we couldn’t believe something dangerous will happen in the city but we were wrong. After five minutes we saw some people trying to burn a house with people in it. We told them to stop but they didn’t stop so I went to the police station and they stopped the fire. We in Iran for one month and it was wonderful. We traveled in the desert and it was so beautiful we couldn’t leave. After we left Iran I understood what I want to find out in this trip. I wanted to find out how to live alone and travel alone without help. I told Mario that he can go back home and I will travel he agreed and went back but I knew that he was very angry at me. After that day I met a very nice person. He told me that there are people that say that if you travel in Iran alone you will maybe die but if not you will have a happy life. After that day I couldn’t stay. I couldn’t die in the beginning of my trip. I went out of Iran on camels and I was on my way to India. Iran was a good country and it had wonderful people in it but I couldn’t stay there because there were chances I will die.
Mumbai:
The trip to Indiana was not very fun. I met some bandits in my way. I was lucky they didn’t find me but anyway I ran away with the camels as far as I could. I got to Mumbai, a city in India and I couldn’t believe what I was seeing.
So many people in weird clothes and so many statues and so many temples. It was so beautiful that I could stay there for the whole life but before I could do something someone pulled me. It was my brother. He looked at me, punched and ran away. I was shocked but I just continued to look at the temples. I got into one of them and inside you could see a beautiful waterfall through the window and the waterfall made a river which was very beautiful. I thought that this was a bit weird to such a beautiful place but in France there wasn’t any place like that. I stayed in Mumbai for 2 months and I told myself since I can’t live in Iran I could stay in India after I’ll finish my trip. I asked some people to tell me about the temples and they told about the temple. The temples are very ancient and important to them. After all, I found someone that speaks good English and he told me more about the temples. The Indian people were very weird. They spoke really weird, their clothes were very weird and they believed in weird things. For example I met a person that said that he can tell me about my future. He told me I will live until I will be 91 years old, he told I will go to China but I will come back to India, he told me I will find my wife in India and I will have five children. I didn’t really believe in that but I knew he was right in two things. My next station is China and I will get back to India.
Kashgar:
Now I’m in my way to China, my last station. On my way to China it was beautiful. I saw the Great Wall of China and I almost fell off the camel because I was seriously shocked. The city that I got to was Kashgar. Kashgar was beautiful. Beautiful, right?
The people in Kashgar act weird. I don’t know if they just act or they are really that poor. They barely have money and food. I went to someone’s house and the only thing I found was 4 apples. They also believe really weird. They actually believe that dreams are real in someway. Actually Kashgar is a really beautiful place. The desert in it is beautiful.
Now I’m on my way to India to this beautiful country and I really look forward to live. My trip was very fun and entertaining but of course I learned a lot about these three countries which I will never forget.
