About 100 camels carrying boxes of tea walk on a highway during an event re-enacting the ancient tea trade journey from China to Europe in Changsha, Hunan province, yesterday. According to local media, the tea caravan that set out from the Inner Mongolia autonomous region this April would likely change their mode of transport into cars later to travel through Siberia and complete their journey in Paris next December.

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