Odoric of Pordenone, returning to Europe from the Chinese capital of the Yüan dynasty, travels overland through Central Asia and probably visits Tibet.

The Franciscan missionary Odoric of Pordenone had sailed from India in a junk to Sumatra, visiting various ports on the northern coast of that island, and thence to Java, to the coast (it would seem) of Borneo, to Champa (Indochina), and to Guangzhou (Canton), at this time known as Chin-Kalan or Great China (Mahachin).

From Guangzhou, …

…Odoric travels overland to the great ports of Fujian, at one of which, at this time called Zayton Xiamen (Amoy) harbor, he founds two houses of his order; in one of these he deposits the bones of the brethren who had suffered martyrdom in India.

From Fuzhou, …

…Odoric strikes across the mountains into Zhejiang and visits Hangzhou, at this time renowned, under the name of Cansay, Khanzai, or Quinsai (i.e.

Kin gsze or royal residence), as the greatest city in the world, of whose splendors Odoric, like Marco Polo, Marignolli, or Ibn Batuta, gives notable details.

Passing northward by Nanjing and crossing the Yangzi, Odoric embarks on the Grand Canal of China and travels to the headquarters of the Great Khan (probably Yesün Temür Khan), namely the city of Cambalec (AKA Cambaleth, Cambaluc, Khanbalik, etc.)

or present-day Beijing, where he will remain for three years, probably from 1324 to 1327, attached, no doubt, to one of the churches founded by Archbishop Giovanni da Montecorvino, at this time in extreme old age.

Odoric of Pordenone reaches Italy in 1330, where he dictates a vivid account of his extensive travels throughout the Far East before his death on January 14, 1331.