Ovorkhangai, Mongolia
seeing lots of chinese wizards on motorbikes now...must be nearly there!
Bayankhongor, Mongolia
never fill your water cans from a river next to a mongolian village - you'll never get the kids out of your van
Issyk - Kulskaya, Kyrgyzstan
Met Gaetan & Melanie in Osh traveled across kyrgyztan with them- twas great, only to find border with kazakhstan shut. on our way back to Bishkek.
Karakul, Tajikistan
camping next to turquoise Lake Karakol surrounded by snow capped peaks. Cooking pasta on a goat dung fire, enjoying the views an ** some text is missing **
Gorno-Badakhshan, Tajikistan
lovely supper in the Gulubek family's yurt, caught in a lightening storm at 4000m, tent savaged by wild
Gorno-Badakhshan, Tajikistan
surrounded by the Tajik army near the Afgan border near Kalaikhum last night. Motored on to Khorog where we had our starter motor and a brake cable sabotaged. Nice soak in the thermal baths at Garam Chashma.
Region of Republican Subordination, Tajikistan
played hide and seek in a karaoke bar with the ex KGB security guard of our hotel, who thought we owed him something. We won.
Shahrisabz, Uzbekistan
bidding our time to cross Tadjik border in this quiet little town in the Hissar Mountains. Had an Uzbek mullet haircut...Charlies a better barber!
Bukhara Province, Uzbekistan
after a long trek from Yazd through the Iranian desert, into Turkmenistan at Ashgabat. Found nowhere to sleep and drove across Tmenistan in a day. Bribed out of dollars at every stop by 'policemen'. Also involved in a 'scam' accident and forced to pay up. Enjoying a beer with Andy in Bukhara now.
Baku, Azerbaijan
lost the vehicle twice yesterday and Baku's rather large and boiling hot. Cooling off in the Caspian Sea, but a very fat jovial Azerbaijanian kept trying to pull my trunks off. To Iran tomorrow.
