View Larger Map (May 28, 2007) 9:00am – This is the second full day of the journey. We are visiting sites in Zap, as well in in the former Mennonite colonies of Chortitza and Rosenthal on the Dnieper River. The…

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View Larger Map (May 27, 2007) 7:55am – I got up at about three hours ago to walk around the city gathering video of Kiev at sunrise. It’s unseasonably hot (35°C/95°F). However, the city is clean, the people are relaxed –…

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Every once in a while, it’s good to retrace our steps. In many ways, that’s exactly what Pilgrims on the Silk Road is all about. Over the next few days I will be posting the journal entries from our journey…

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John Sharp, the Hesston College historian who led the last two Mennonite tours to Khiva, has a great slideshow online from his presentation at the Mennonite Historical Society of Saskatchewan. It has lots of maps and photos about the story.…

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