We met at 7:30am to head out for breakfast, ironically at the same bakery I had gotten some pastries at the day before, before loading up in the three land rovers...
Saying good-bye to Turkey, I headed for Mongolia and the next leg of my trip. I had signed up to volunteer with an Earthwatch conversation expedition on the Mongolian Steppes and...
We left Samarkand around 8am for the five hour drive to Tashkent, our last stop on our 16 day odyssey. Admittedly we were all a bit tired and subdued— we had...
We left Bukhara around 8:00am for the approximately five hour drive to Samarkand. As we were leaving the outskirts of the city, Umid pointed out a sedara on the side of...
We took a train from Khiva to Bukhara and of all of the vehicles we have been in and out of the whole trip, this, by far, was the most challenging. ...
After a good night’s sleep and breakfast we headed out to tour the old city of Khiva. The external walls of the city still exist along with four gates, one at...
Before we left Kokand, where we spent the night, and headed to Tashkent, we toured through the Khan’s palace. The palace was built in the 19th century to serve as the...
We had one last stop in Osh before heading to the Krygystan-Uzbekistan border and that was a visit to Sulayman Mountain, another UNESCO World Heritage site. It was a place of...
Osh, the second largest city in Kyrgyzstan with approximately 350,000 people living in and around the city, sits in the fertile Fergana Valley in the southern part of the country (more...
After two days at the Son-Kol Yurt camp we headed out driving south along the plateau for the 3600m Moldo-Ashuu pass towards our next Yurt camp at Tash Rabat near the...