Pamir Mountains – Tajikistan
This was taken whilst we were driving through the Pamir Mountains along the Pamir Highway. Tajikistan is a spectacularly beautiful country and to read more about our week there, please see the blog I wrote –
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Turkmenistan
This was taken in Turkmenistan travelling through the Karakum Desert en route to the capital Ashgabat. The range you see is the Kopet Dag mountains, behind which lies Iran. To read more about...
Adventures on the Caspian Sea
This was taken aboard the ferry that took us from Baku in Azerbaijan to Turkmenbashi in Turkmenistan. What was meant to be a 14 hour journey took almost 40 as we sat waiting on the Caspian Sea for over a day! To read more about this adventure, please see the blog I wrote –
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...
Ala-Kol Lake – Kyrgyzstan
After a brilliant few days in Tajikistan, we made our way to Kyrgyzstan where the spectacular scenery continued. Here’s the blog I wrote about our week in the country –
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...