Day 77, 18th June, Obigarm
A strange day.Woke and ascertained that we were on the wrong road, so we returned towards Dushanbe to get on the right road and, having noticed that 27,400 miles including … Read more
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Day 76, 17th June, Dushanbe
After driving up a few hairpins and marvelling at the snow-covered Turkestan Range in front of us, we drove through a tunnel with its name in Chinese and a length … Read more
Day 75, 16th June, Isferavshan
A run of good luck after the fruitless drive to Kuldyk yesterday. I got up about 05.00, conscious that we were getting behind schedule and I’m desperate to see my … Read more
Day 74, 15th June, Osh
A useless day in that I believed the internet when it said the Kuldyk border crossing to Tajikistan was open, It wasn’t. 400 mile round trip for nothing. However we … Read more
Day 73, 14th June, Osh, Kyrgyzstan
A relaxing morning at the hotel to gird our loins for the arduous passage through the Uzbek-Kyrgyz border. A lovely experience just before we got to the border. We stopped … Read more
Day 72, 13th June, Andizhan
The road from Altyaryk to Andizhan rolled through an attractive rural landscape with the road lined by long single-storey terraces of houses extending for the length of the village and … Read more
Day 71, 12th June, Altyaryk
Went to have breakfast at the caff in the morning. Seemed only fair when they had let us sleep on their property. The boiled chicken legs in some sort of … Read more
Day 70, 11th June, Tashkent
The next day we drove to Gur-e-Emir and went inside. It is one of the highlights of the trip thus far, covered almost entirely in gold leaf. The blocks of … Read more
Day 69, 10th June, Samarkand
We thought that, as a treat, we would spend an extra day relaxing in the excellent Zilol Baxta hotel which gives a 5-star service for only £35 a night. In … Read more
Days 67-68, 8th-9th June, Samarkand
Minds numbed from a day of unrelenting beauty. I knew Samarkand was beautiful, but wasn’t prepared for this. Samarkand is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in Central Asia. … Read more