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The Unforgiving Sun: Bicycle Touring Azerbaijan's Desert 7
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The Unforgiving Sun: Bicycle Touring Azerbaijan’s Desert

Bicycle Touring in Azerbaijan Azerbaijan is not a prime tourist destination, anyway, many bicycle travelers end up crossing it on... Read More
Hitchhiking trucks in the steppe of Kazakhstan
AsiaCentral Asia

Hitchhiking Kazakhstan’s Steppe and a Sleeping on a Train Baggage shelf

With only 15 days to cycle more than 4.000km through the desert, we have no other choice but to hitchhike. Fortunately here in the steppe of Kazakhstan, it's as easy as taking a bus in London. Just wait for the first truck, wave your hand and it will stop if the driver has the tiniest room for you. And than the fun begins. Read More
The typical Central Asian Bazar of Turkestan
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Turkestan and Southern Kazakhstan – is this what they call Silk Road?

Kyrgyzstan: Issyk Kul - Cycling Around the Eye of the World 8
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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
Cycling from Bishkek to Almaty: Chinese visa in Kazakhstan and other stories 9
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Cycling from Bishkek to Almaty: Chinese visa in Kazakhstan and other stories

An easy bicycle ride from Bishkek and how we got our Chinese visa in Almaty. Bicycle touring Central Asia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan Read More
Kok Boru at World Nomad Games - Kyrgyzstan
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First World Nomad Games – History Sets Foot in Cholpon Ata

Ferry across the Caspian Sea. From Baku to Aktau
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Crossing the Caspian Sea by ship – From Baku to Aktau a ferry to the steppe of Kazakhstan

From Azerbaijan to Kazakhstan by boat. Crossing the Caspian Sea on a Soviet-era ferry, from Baku to Aktau. Right in the middle of the Kazakh Steppe. Read More
Song Kul: a Lake Close to Heaven (or fat your herds and get away) 10
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Song Kul: a Lake Close to Heaven (or fat your herds and get away)

Bicycle touring up to Song Kul, a big alpine lake 3.000msl in Kyrgyzstan, here the nomads set their yurt camp (jailoo) in summer. We wonder if it is easier to bring the beasts up here than to cycle, because that is a nightmare. Read More
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Aralsk: what’s left of a sea

Osh Bazar in Bishkek
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Freedom in Kyrgyzstan – From Kara Balta to Bishkek

Bicycle Touring from Kara Balta to Bishkek. Kyrgyzstan Independence Day, Osh bazar, Visas and other things to do in Bishkek, a laid-back Silk Road city. Today is Independence Day, we go downtown to attend the celebrations. Kyrgyzstan is a nation of very tough people, they made two revolutions in the last 10 years and their nation pride is quite high. Read More

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