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Khaketi Wine Tour: How to Find the Best Wine in Georgia

Both Ramaz and the Aboviani family told us that the road to the Kakheti was very easy and flat. Lie, a huge lie. There... Read More
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Georgian ancestral heritage: Uplistshike and Mtskheta

We load the bikes on the van, also the Nika’s one, and leave for Tbilisi. Twenty years of living in Germany... Read More
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Hitchhiking Kazakhstan’s Steppe and a Sleeping on a Train Baggage shelf

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Xinaliq (Khinalug): a Loneliness of Thousand Years 

Xinaliq, 2300 a.s.l., is a remote village in Azerbaijan. It used to be very difficult to reach it until 2006, when an asphalt road was built, now it is possible to drive to Xinaliq. Read More
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Ivanovka: The Last & Alive Soviet Union Kolkhoz

Adventure Travel in Azerbaijan: Ivanovka, the last Kolkhoz While looking for interesting things to see and do in Azerbaijan, we... Read More
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Baku – Where the Stinky Wind Blows

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Turkestan and Southern Kazakhstan – is this what they call Silk Road?

Bicycle Touring to the ancient city of Turkestan one of the most valuable heritages in Kazakhstan. Cycling the Silk Road under the heat of the Central Asia summer. Read More
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Kyrgyzstan: Issyk Kul – Cycling Around the Eye of the World

Bicycle Touring around lake Issyk Kul, 1600 meters above sea level, surrounded by much higher mountains (up around 7000msl), the Ala-Too range, Kungoy (sunny) Ala-Too in the north and Terskey (Shady) Ala-Too in the south, part of the Northern Tien Shan. Issyk Kul is the tenth largest lake in the world by volume (though not in surface area), and the second largest saline lake after the Caspian Sea. Read More
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Arslanbob: Living in the Biggest Walnut Forest in the World

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First World Nomad Games – History Sets Foot in Cholpon Ata

Kyrgyzstan, Issyk Kul lake, Cholpon Ata town, First World Nomad Games. Play polo with a dead goat (Kok Boru or Buzkashi), throw your opponent from his horse in a tense Enish fight, or grab your bride (or slap your groom) in a Kyz Kuu race! Read More

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