The Ship That Launched Them All
Marco Polo's contributions to Cabo San Lucas's history is not met without drama. His life story is filled with adventure both on land and at sea. And what's even more surprising is that hardly anyone believed his recorded testimonies. Marco Polo (1300) His stories were considered fairytales, doubts that Marco Polo actually sailed to China, " Many people took his accounts with a grain of salt and some skeptics question the authenticity of his account. Many of his stories have been considered as fairytales: the strange oil in Baku and the monstrous birds which dropped elephants from a height and devoured their broken carcasses. His Travels made no mention about the Great Wall. While traveled extensively in China, Marco Polo never learned the Chinese language nor mentioned a number of articles which are part of everyday life, such as women's foot-binding, calligraphy, or tea. In additional, Marco Polo's name was never occurred in the Annals of the ...