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Song Kul: a Lake Close to Heaven (or fat your herds and get away) 1
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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.
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Breathing Ice – Cycling Siberia in Winter with Dino Lanzaretti

Cycling in winter, in the coldest places in the worldtrip to Siberia: an interview with Dino Lanzaretti Cycling in winter...
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Kyrgyzstan: Issyk Kul - Cycling Around the Eye of the World 3
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Kyrgyzstan: Issyk Kul – Cycling Around the Eye of the World

Arslanbob: Living in the Biggest Walnut Forest in the World 4
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Arslanbob: Living in the Biggest Walnut Forest in the World

Arslanbob, Kyrgyzstan, Silk Road, Central Asia. This is said to be the birth place of all the walnuts in the world. People live inside this huge and magical forest, like in a fairytale. The harvest season is here, and we came to see how it is.
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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.
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The typical Central Asian Bazar of Turkestan
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Turkestan and Southern Kazakhstan – is this what they call Silk Road?

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12 Most Dangerous Countries in Asia that are Safer than you think for Travelers

How to stay safe when traveling theseso-called dangerous countries of Asia Some of these places are considered among the most...
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Farewell Aral Sea – Kazachstan

Aral Lake (or Aral Sea) used to be the 4th largest lake in the world for surface (68,000km2). Now is almost a pond. What left it like it's now?
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Brief Point About Nomads in Kazakhstan

Hitchhiking trucks in the steppe of Kazakhstan
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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.
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