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You arrive safe behind ancient walls on the Silk Road as the desert night falls | 3 Hour Sleep Story, No Mid Roll Ads

You arrive safe behind ancient walls on the Silk Road as the desert night falls | 3 Hour Sleep Story, No Mid Roll Ads

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Fall asleep inside history. Tonight you arrive with a caravan at a stone inn on the Silk Road, somewhere between Bukhara and Samarkand, around eight hundred years ago, as the great gates close against the cold desert night. Inside there is fire, warm tea, fed and settled camels, and travelers from many lands, all safe behind thick walls while the road and the cold stay outside. A bed waits at the end of a long day, under a sky heaped with stars.

You will hear the low fire, the desert wind pressing at the walls, camels settling into the straw, and travelers trading quiet words over tea in the languages of four corners of the world. The gates are barred, the lamps are few and warm, and the desert, for all its cold and its distance, stays outside.

This is a three hour sleep story. The narration ends softly around the 33 minute mark, and then the low fire and the desert wind carry on until morning. Black screen friendly.

Chapters:
0:00 Welcome
3:20 The Road at Dusk
6:14 The Gate
8:23 The Courtyard
10:31 The Animals
13:21 The Keeper
16:22 The Warm Room
19:37 A Word for the Road
21:56 Supper and the Fire
24:28 The Cell
27:21 The Inn Settles
30:17 Drifting
33:33 The fire and the wind until morning

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New episodes Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 6pm Eastern. Nights carry you inside an ordinary evening from the past. Tales, every Friday, tell one true story from history, calm enough to sleep to and interesting enough to stay up for.

🕯 Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com
📜 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com
🌙 Norse myth sleep stories, The Sleeping Almanac: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac
🕊 Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel
🎙 David's interview podcast, Conversations That Count: https://www.youtube.com/@ConversationsThatCount-CTC
🎧 Also on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3J6lZ10GvK07qCv3aQxnkR and Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/conversations-that-count-a31f16a6-3131-4c8f-982f-19d52407e8eb/id1890348796

Sources: Valerie Hansen, The Silk Road: A New History; Peter Frankopan, The Silk Roads; Susan Whitfield, Life Along the Silk Road.

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