After three days in Khorog, and with Grant and Sasha both departing too, I felt it was time to tackle my next challenge of the
Arriving in Khorog, I felt like a broken man. I had just been through, what I believe to have been ten of the toughest, most
When I woke in the morning, the temperature was -5 but I was feeling rather toasty inside the tent and it put me in a
It was intimidating to say the very least – setting off from the hostel in Dushanbe. Thoughts of 4500 metre passes, freezing temperatures, snow, wind
I arrived at the border at ten and saw the familiar outline of a touring cyclist by the side of the road. He was a
From Bukhara, the first 20 km’s east were actually kind of fun. The road wasn’t too bad, the wind wasn’t hindering me much and the
I enjoyed a couple of very relaxed days in Bukhara and it felt great to get off the bike. The hotel that I found as
I left the hostel in Khiva at around 09:30 and no sooner had I left the inner city than the road once again tuned to
Silk Road cities in Central Asia Khiva is a super small town and so it didn’t take me long at all to find the old
It would have been nice to cycle together with the three guys I had met but alas we all had different plans. Jess and Tim