Joanna starts her journey in Venice and learns how Marco Polo and other traders influenced its growth. Moving on to Albania, she explores the Via Egnatia, an ancient network that once connected the entire Roman Empire.

Joanna explores post-Soviet Georgia and Azerbaijan amid her Silk Road journey between two seas. Along the way, she gains insight into their cultural heritage and quest for identity.

Joanna's Silk Road journey takes her to Iran. Throughout the country she meets people eager to share the culture and innovations of the Persian civilisation which, thanks to the Silk Road, spread far beyond modern-day Iran.

As Joanna's Silk Road Adventure draws to a close, she travels across the stunning yet little-known Central Asian states of Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. Starting in the Kyzl-Kum desert she explores the Silk Road citadel of Khiva, a town infamous for its history of slavery. In the capital, Tashkent, she marvels at the splendid Soviet-built Metro system and attends a high society wedding as the guest of a famous pop star.