The Chinese Silk Road - Episode 1 - Xi'an, Lanzhou and Jiayuguan fortress | Travel China 

I am in Shandong, China, and my previous company manager was an Islamic believer. He's peaceful and humorous, the only difference from us is that he doesn't eat pork. Be careful when we eat together. This leads me to believe that Islam is not a violent religion. Poverty breeds violence, regardless of what you believe.

The world needs more documentaries like these you have on your channel. I truly appreciate the genuine way in which Graeme shows us what the normal life is in the regions he visits.. An antidote to the news, that shows us only statistics, highlights and negative news and not the day-by-day. What's Graeme doing? He needs to get to work on more of these!!! Graeme, have you contacted the correspondent or the school of life? Please do!!!

Beautiful, peaceful, it's going to fantastic to see world wide trade & world peace. I wish the human race could respect each other's differences. Well done China. 💞 from New Zealand

Great job with this film, I'm shocked by the quality, narration, filmography etc. Feels like something you'd see on TV. Oh and very informative

An excellent documentary. Superb in all respects: be it narrative, visuals or telling the history of this ancient land.

Oh my god as a Chinese I think this is very well done!

"Amazing!" doesnt even start to define this! Honestly, It is one of the best I've seen. Can't wait for next videos! Good luck

You have a talent for making documentaries. You're really engaging and your documentaries seem to tell an interesting story. The cinematography, editing, voiceovers etc are also really well done. I see you haven't posted in a while, but I hope you keep making documentaries - maybe when you travel to other places too!

6 years living in China and Lanzhou la mian is still my favorite meal, though a close second is sheng jian bao...

We did a week in Xian, my lovely Chinese Wife's University city. This was our 3 months adventure last year.

Very well done! Feels like a true documentary film in the cinema. Plus good steady shots, good sound, good writing... Keep up your good work please!!!!

I've been wanting to take a trip through china, and after watching this, I want it even more.

I really enjoyed this one as well, I also recommend this one as it deals with the Silk Road and the ancient history of Silk and its evolution in trade, transportation on the silk road and its impact on ancient, medieval and modern industry. The history of silk is really an amazing testament to humankind's ingenuity and the randomness of life since Neolithic times. I hope you enjoy this episode. It turned out to be a much greater story than I was ever aware of. From the mythological origins of the discovery of silk, to the science behind the actual process of silk making this lecture dives into it, giving you an important economic, archaeological and social history of this silk. From Persia, Ancient Rome and to the modern nations of Europe silk was craved, sought, purchased and trade secrets were stolen as various peoples and enterprises sought to explore the silk industry and trade! An awesome presentation. Terms that Laszlo Montgomery uses throughout this episode are listed below for a better understanding! If you have not listened to The China History Podcast definitely check them out, I am just delving into the history of Asia and the content he provides on China is more than I could ever hope for. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CySz4xoOQRA.html

My first thought is this is a professional documentary shot by BBC or other big media! It's really a good narration and high quality of content. Thanks for sharing!

Love it... Xian one of the most beautiful places to visit....

Silk road. Where awe-inspiring scences of nature converge with the incredible tales of history and the colorful kaleidoscope of culture.

Fantastic video, well narrated, interesting and very informative. Travelling that road has always been a dream of mine. I hope I could make it someday.

Just finished watching the first episode. Very well done! Narration, camera work, energy, simply excellent. Thank you!

Really nice to watch someone telling about China without preconceived agenda, but letting the story unfold through the pictures. And the yearn to see this amazing country is just growing. Brilliant work, young man!!

Excellent for a young person to do this documentary. Humility you show shines through, simple was you explain really intricate cultural ways, laws and resilience of one's who have travels and stayed in China, it's truly remarkable. Thank you, more please! ♥️

This better shot, polished, narrated and directed than a big team of BBC fumblers or Netflix sensationalists. It has substance and I never thought it would be so interesting. Thank you

I was searching for documentary on Silk Road and found you, excellent work ! I love Xi'an and Gobi desert from reading many books all my life. You summarized it well. Thank you for sharing with us.

China is a very beautiful country and Iam crazy of chines art and painting.

What an amazing country country is China! And the Chinese people are extremely hardworking and patient people. Lovely.

Just watched the first episode and it was very enjoyable....Look forward watching the next episode.

Fantastic documentary! great writing, cinematography and narration.

Really well-done! Thank you for giving us more of China. My hope is to see it live one day.

your videos is so detail,deep and quality,you guys surely did a lot of research and preparation before this,great job and thanks.

As someone about to spend a year (hopefully longer) learning in Wudang I found this fascinating! I most definitely want to see Xian.

I am contented visiting China from top to button. Really it wonderful especially the Great Wall of China. My best gratitude.

Graeme, great video. I hv travelled the Silk Road three times till the extreme west of China in Tashkurgan. Love it too much. Watching your video brought memories of my travels there. Very professionally done. Tq

Still watching this video, Graeme! I think a few years ago I found your channel before I studied abroad in Xi'an (2017). After I finished my semester I followed the Silk Road and had an amazing experience. Can't wait to do it again and thank you for the inspiration.

I wonder how much time he had to research, write and deliver these stand ups. The presentation is very well done. This feels like the Discovery Channel more than National Geographic.

Amazing documentary. Very informative and enjoyable.

wonderful... I love watching docs about the Silk Road

Honestly,it's so fabulous.

this is why i come for youtube for! thank you very much!

Please make more documentaries. The quality of your videos including content is great 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

Since I was little and saw a National Geographic story on the Silk Road I've wanted to go!

A really fascinating video, which held my interest the whole time. Thank you.

aww...I really missed the Lanzhou La Mian restaurant in front of my high school...My favorite beef noodle ever! I went there whenever I didn't know what to eat

thoroughly enjoyed this video. great job Mr. Langford.

Well produced documentary. Great presentation and camera & photography quality. Love it and thanks very much.

I love your documentary, so fascinating and naturally narrated and run, please create more and never give up, big thanks from Thailand for so many interesting historical details !

Great video. Good job, Graeme. Original, light and good content. I am going to watch your second episode now.

dude this documentary is amazing. better than all the other Silk Road videos on RU-vid out there

This is one example of high quality video content from RU-vid awesome, and for our Muslim brothers in China may peace upon you

A little bit sad,a little bit upset when I saw the last update time was one year ago...cuz your documentaries are so fantastic and awesome!Are you gonna make some more documentaries?Can’t wait to watch your another documentary!I’ll try my best to translate those documentaries into Chinese and share with my friends!You were supposed to have more subscriptions,but why there’re only 3000?So sad about it...You deserve more!

Gosh, that was extraordinary! You deserve more subscribes and views!

Thank you! I am fascinated by the story of the brick. Now to Episode 2.

love the music great narration u sir are history channel quality

I can't believe I watched this whole video, thinking it was a tv or some big company production. I read the comments and needless to say, I was shocked. This quality is amazing.

Beautiful videos. Thank you. Looking forward to more of your work.

This is a piece of treasure. Thanks for making history so interesting.

This is professionally made documentary! Will definitely make Silk Road as part of bucket list

thanks for this amazing video. happy new year!

An absolutely brilliant video to the Silk Road. I have been to Xian a few times and toured as a tourist with Chinese wife and friends to guide me all around the great city & the museum of Qin Shi Huang but never as interesting as your voyage beyond the the gate of Xian's great wall. Beautifully done. Perhaps next time as the Local Muslims say "God willing".

thank you for showing this, i only know it from my history class at elementary and imagined how amazing silk road is back at the day.thanks man.keep make video like this. Maybe Marcopolo journey or Columbus.thx

Great job well done. I love this video

Just watched your documentaries. This should be in TV and in different discovery channels. Great job bro! Subscribed already

This video is very professional. Graeme deserves a job with commercial production companies.

Quality sound, camera angles and brillant and most informative. Congrats to you.

this is great....

This video popped up onto my feed because i watched your dharamshala video and one thing which i can say about this video is "spectacular"...i would request you to film such documentaries more often because your talent of film making clearly reflects out from this video

Thoroughly this documentary! Very informative.

beautifully done, informative and constructive, cannot wait to see more.

Beautiful documentary, filming, interviews and narratives!

great episode can't wait to see the rest.Kind of remind me of Anthony Bouradin's parts unknown!

your videos are amazed me, thank you for telling the story about china , everything is totally the same as you described in the video!

If you go china must try those "la mian" !! do not forget it !!! i will say 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 not lie...

Good production and narration. I learn something new about China from this video. Thank you.

wow your vlog is diffrerent from the others. very creative! i thought this was a documentary film. i subscribe to your channel now.

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!!! SO FABULOUS TO BE ABLE TO DO THIS JOURNEY!!!! THANK YOU AND MILLION THANK YOUS AGAIN!!!

wow this is so good... I just started but this is truly impressive quality. You deserve some recognition in the world.

This series is simply brilliant and Graeme's natural gift for story telling and sharing the excitement of travel is the best I've ever seen/ heard. PLEASE keep doing more travel series! (I've subscribed!) ..... and THANK YOU for a job VERY well done!

Very interesting and informative. Specially the Islamic part. It changed my view of actual China. Enthusiastic to see the next part. 😁

This is an extremely well done documentary. Great job.

Great quality production. Absolutely amazing, especially you use the Original/PinYin Name of those places which help preserve their original meanings. For example, quote from other comment in another RU-vid Video, "The Forbidden City translates only the last two character of the name "禁城" of the original "紫禁城". The translation is good, but not good enough. The omitted character "紫" means only color purple in English but represents way much more here. It represents "紫微星", a bright purple star in the sky, which was believed to be a symbol of the sky's son("天子") since ancient China, hence the place he lives is forbidden to others." "The Forbidden City" is good translation but not good enough for "紫禁城" or "ZiJinCheng" in Chinese PinYin.

Loved it!

Syifa, great video. I am so happy to see your cheerful self again. Keep it up, chia yu !

The story about Jiayuguan shows great skills in strategic planning which is symbolic of the Chinese.

Fantastic doco, professional and very informative Well done young man

bravo sir! I'm showing this to my history classes and they love it.

Thank you👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻Graeme Langford for sharing all these 😍 awesome videos 💪🏻🙆

Such a well made documentary! This deserves so much more views! Adding certain keywords to the name of the video might help. It only got recommended to me bc I was looking up specifically silk road related videos. But great job on the film well done!

Just watched it. Very impressive. Thank you.

great movie!! a very good reference for me to plan my trip to gansu!

A+ quality. Can't wait to see more.🐫

the doc literally brings back my memory of Xian. Great documentary, keep sharing it.

fantastic video, sound & story love & enjoy about the history of China

So happy to have come across your channel and videos.. Awesome work..

great video! It feels like its from a large production company. How did you do that? Cheers

As my apreciation, no ads were skiped.

看着我都想吃一碗兰州拉面啦！ Having watched you eating Lanzhou Beef noodles really makes me wanna eat one asap.

Honestly one of the best documentaries I’ve seen and did you do this on your own or did you have a team

China is beautiful!

I had to watch this for school, but I was surprised to find this incredibly interesting! Great quality :D

Wish there was more of it!!!! Sadly felt it was too rushed....could have been more indepth.

Thanks! I love this!

How could you not have many subscribers? This is such a great work!