Between 1405 and 1433 Admiral Zheng He of China led seven epic voyages ... over 10000 miles from Yunnan in China to Africas Swahili coast taking over 40000 pictures for the feature story on ...

Zheng He's fourth and fifth travels explored the Persian Gulf and ports along the East African coast, while hist last voyage in 1431 brought him to Siam (now Thailand) and Malacca, according to a ...