From Xi'an to Rome on foot, one man's journey along the modern Silk Road

Cheng's walk was more than a personal trial: it was a journey through the living geography of a remade Silk Road.

By Xinhua Writer Ren Yaoting

ROME, Oct. 24 (Xinhua) -- Under the autumn sun, 34-year-old Cheng Long stood before the Colosseum in Rome, Italy, a battered rucksack at his feet. In a plain blue T-shirt, skin browned, and hair tousled by wind, he looked every bit the itinerant trav