丝路探险的英国姑娘

BRITISH GIRLS ON THEIR SILK ROUTE EXPEDITION

这是一次难忘的采访,也是记者迄今看到的最为悲壮的一幕。去年11月17日中午12时,当四名年轻的英国女大学生骑着骆驼,挟着长达8个月、行程愈万里的丝路风尘出现在西安西郊大型石雕《丝绸之路》附近时,专程从英国经北京飞到西安的两位姑娘的父母迎上前去,与他们英雄的女儿紧紧拥抱在一起。姑娘们泣不成声,脸上的泥水与父母的泪水融汇在一起。这是成功的泪水,也是幸福的泪水。

Sophia and three other British girls departed Edinborough on March 19, 1999 to start their Silk Route Expedition. They first arrived in Turkmenistan, from where they rode on horseback from west to east along the Silk Route. They arrived in Tn'ernaite in Xinjiang on July 1. Then they changed to camel' s back and rode through Kashi, Hefu, Ruoqiang, Dunhuang, Lanzhou and Pingliang to Xi'an. They covered some 5,000 kilometers in China within 170 days. Each day they put their accounts of the expedition to the Internet for people to share their experience.