A busy final day in Georgia – canyons, caves and dinosaur footprints!
Kutaisi is Georgia’s second-largest city and, with its wonderfully named David the Builder airport, the latest destination for budget airline WizzAir. We had spent the previous
Road-tripping in Georgia – caves, history, hiking and wine!
After a fun few days in Tbilisi, we hired a car and spent a wonderfully varied four days exploring different sights dotted around the country. We were only in Georgia for 10 days, and after our
Exploring Georgia’s capital, Tbilisi
After a wonderful two months in Northern India, we took a slight detour on our way home to the UK and stopped off in Georgia for a week and a half. I had
Mongolia – we made it!
As we left Russia and drove through no-man’s land headed for the border proper, we recalled hearing stories about teams that spent upwards of three days at the border waiting for their cars to get stamped in. Thankfully, we...
Tough driving through Kazakhstan and Russia
After traveling through Kyrgyzstan, we always knew that Kazakhstan and Russia would be a long, hard slog and that’s exactly how it turned out with some 2,700 km covered in five consecutive days of...
Stunning driving and hiking round Kyrgyzstan
As we crossed from Tajikistan into Kyrgyzstan, the change in country gave way to brilliant roads that were tarred and pothole-free and vastly different scenery: snow-capped mountain ranges were replaced...
Stunning natural beauty driving through Tajikistan and gorgeous architecture in Uzbekistan
I’m writing this blog by lantern by lantern sitting in a yurt on Lake Karakol in the Pamir Mountains in central Tajikistan. It’s spacious and warm inside and the bowl of water placed next to this lantern is an ingenious solution to the moth problem we were having. We’ve just finished a...
Interesting times in Turkmenistan
I’m writing this sitting in the car at Farab on the Turkmenistan side of the border with Uzbekistan. We woke up on the side of the road this morning, having camped off the highway some 100km from the capital Ashgabat, and are sleeping on the side of the road as the border is frustratingly...
Caspian Sea Shenanigans
I’m writing this around midday on Tuesday as we sit anchored in the Caspian Sea amongst over 50 other vessels with Turkmenbashi in the distance waiting for word that we can enter the port. The trip appeared to be on course for a mid-Monday arrival when we heard that the President was in town...
Driving through Georgia and Azerbaijan
As we crossed into Georgia before the sun rose after a long day’s non-stop driving through Turkey, the countryside changed from largely flat and barren to lush and mountainous. Car-swallowing potholes littered the...