Name of Speaker: Jonny Bealby

Company Name: Wild Frontiers

Date: Saturday 2nd February

Time: 4.00pm

Location: Theatre 2

'For most travellers and all merchants the road from China to the west lies, as it has lain for centuries, along that ancient Silk Road that is surely the most romantic and culturally important trade route in the history of the world.'

So wrote Peter Fleming in his travel classic, News From Tartary, in 1935. Today the Silk Road offers the adventure tourist a plethora of holiday possibilities, from horse riding across the spectacular Mountains of Heaven, to cultural tours through the fabled cities of Samarkand, Bukhara and Khiva. Stretching all the way from Central China to Turkey the route offers endless promise.

Wild Frontiers head honcho, Jonny Bealby has ridden, walked and driven along almost every inch of this exciting route, made a discovery channel film and written two books on the subject and through his slides and enthusiasm is guaranteed to give a lively and informative talk about this little known tourist region.