Blog 29 15th – 16th August Chelab Valley: Aqtashtoq to the source of the Chelab Stream (trek) Distance: 31km Total Distance: 9001km The true source of the Oxus/Amu Darya became a matter of conjecture almost 200 years ago during the Great Game when imperial Britain and Russia competed for control of Central Asia (as detailed […]
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The Zerafshan-Karakum Corridor: Part 2 Bukhara to Samarkand
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 […]
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 […]
