04-03-2008, 07:34 AM
Only a couple of people made the entire trip, even in later times. It seems that Maffeo and Nicolo Polo took about a year and a half to travel from the Crimea to Khanbaliq. Willem van Rubroeck's trip back home from Karakourum started on 10 July 1254 and ended on 15 August 1255 in Tripoli.