Month: June 2024

An eventful day! We set off early after a group of four Kyrgyz men gathered at a bus stop about 5 metres from the van about 6 am, and they … Read more

The day started badly; there was no breakfast because there were no breakfast staff. When we went out to the many nearby restaurants to see if they served breakfasts, we … Read more

We spent the day in the hotel while Gapur sorted a place to store the van when we go to China. I managed to buy some metformin pills from a … Read more

The road from Karabulak to Bishkek was one big traffic jam. We got lost in Bishkek trying to find the Albatross Hotel where we stayed in 2018 and met our … Read more

It seems that we were very close to Jalalabad and the road by-passed the city on its way via Karasu and Toktogul to Bishkek. We stopped for diesel at a … Read more

Shortly after leaving Angren, the road began to climb gently up a spur of the Pamirs with a series of hairpin bends and we passed the spot where we saw … Read more

The road from Samarkand is similar to the road into it; a succession of dreary linear towns with advertising boards and men with red Star Wars sticks waving motorists into … Read more

A pretty useless day. We got a hearty welcome from the manager of the Zilol Bakht hotel who directed us to a bank so we could pay the Russian guy, … Read more

We drove down a rather narrow street called Termez Street (Termez is the Uzbek town on the border with Afghanistan) and over the Kitob Pass (1,665 metres) past dozens of … Read more