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Beyond Pamir and Back to Osh – Tajikistan After Pamir the long way to Dushanbe and the North of Tajikistan to be finally back to Osh. A drive thru more gorges along the Afghan border towards the capital Dushanbe, a visit to the Fann and Zarafshan mountains and the long way back thru the Tajik…
Top of the World – Tajikistan The Pamir Highway and the Wakhan Valley – the 2 top must-have-seen-sights inTajikistan. High altitudes, few infrastructure and rather degraded roads. Without that – no fun on the top of the world. Sorry for that.Dear friends in Lesotho we know Lesotho is the top or the roof of the world. Nevertheless,…
Mountains’n’Meadows – Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan – we move on discovering all these mountainous areas of the Tien Shan Mountains and the meadows in the Naryn Valley. Then we drive on to the western part on our way to Tajikistan. 1st June, Kochkor A last night in Karakol. Still in the rather nice Neofit GH – the…
Out of the Flat Lands – Kyrgyzstan After having driven more than 8000km thru rather flat land we reach Kyrgyzstan. Famous for not having too much plains. Just mountains – up to more than 7000m altitude – among them Pic Lenin. And winding roads – leading up to passes of nearly 4000m. The much needed…
Hiking the Desert – National Parks in the South West A very golden smile receives us in most places in Uzbekistan. It’s considered fashionable and symbolises the wealth of the Silk Road.Bukhara, Samarkand, 2 names equivalent to the Silk Road, to the Tales of 1001 Nights and the dreams of these ancient traders sneaking with…
Back on the Silk Road – Kazakhstan’n’Uzbekistan Leaving Russia, we cross western Kazakhstan to reach the north of Uzbekistan along the Silk Road. 2 quite different countries. In Kazakhstan we get the impression of a closely supervised state with huge differences between very small CBDs and all other parts of the country. Uzbekistan – in…
In Russia After a few days in Ukraine we drive on to Russia. Another 1500km to reach Kazakhstan. Despite all we may read in our newspapers we find a quite neat and organised country.To communicate we are simply obliged to bring to perfection our Russian knowledge – definitely nothing else really works.But let’s start in…
2000km to Kiev, Ukraine On 11th April we finally receive our passports with the visa for Uzbekistan – about a week later than expected. So no problem, but the need to leave immediately towards Ukraine.Having some 5000km and 3 weeks to reach the Uzbek border within an hour our flat was prepared to be left…
Hibernation Over – Reload Your Jealousy On 12th November 2015 we were back to Laufaburg for hibernation.This especially due to the omniscient prediction of some of these famous East Siberian meteorologists competent to forecast weather for the next 6 months – at least. They definitely predicted an extremely cold winter which would even turn a…