They travelled to Sesai in a place now called Astrakhan. This was the summer home of the Mongol ruler Barka Khan and his people. When the Polos first met Barka Khan, they gave him their jewels from Constantinople as a present. But the ruler then gave them twice the number of jewels in return?
The brothers, who were now rich, stayed in Serai a year and traded. They then travelled to the famous Stilk Road city of Bukhara in modern-day Uzbekistan. More fighting menat that they could not go further’ or return home, so they worked there as merchants for three years.