Blog 16 1st – 8th June Bukhara to Samarkand Distance: 271km Total Distance: 4615km Arriving in Bukhara, there was a sense of what it was like arriving as a Silk Road traveller who had endured crossing the desert from Merv – Cycling from Merv, I had been going pretty hard in the heat and needed […]
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Life along the Syr Darya
Blog 4 30th March – 5th April Kazakhstan Border to Turkistan Distance: 406km Total Distance: 871km The border crossing between Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan was even more chaotic than the Tajikistan-Uzbekistan crossing a few days earlier. We had to walk my bike and lug all our baggage through passport control and security screens for both countries, a […]