An interesting day but not greatly productive. We had found a nice camp spot down off the road accessible only by 4X4 last night and not visible from the road. A storm had been threatening before settling in and it was still threatening this morning, but nothing eventuated. Well, the…
Kyrgyzstan is much gentler than Tajikistan. Still mountainous but without the snowy, jagged peaks towering above. The road is much gentler too. Perfect tar seal and even has white lines! There are many villages but in the rural parts, yurts proliferate with horses, sheep and goats. We pass dozens of…
The plan is to get to Murgab today. It’s about 180 kms from Langar and last night we camped about 20 kms short of Langar. So around 200kms. Once we reach Langar the road starts to climb dramatically in a series of very narrow hairpins. No barriers and a…
I couldn’t get to sleep last night. After finishing the first novel I had read in ages, it left me ….deeply depressed. The book, ‘The light Between Oceans’, by M L Stedman. Great read, once you accept and get past the flowery introduction. It beautifully captures the Australian psyche and…
After last nights excitement, we managed to get some disturbed sleep by the roadside with a voluminous, noisy stream right beside us. Jen was anxious about being moved on again, so don’t think she got too much sleep. On the road by 9am and for the rest of the day,…
I had hoped we would get to Khorog yesterday, but we are progressing slowly as the road conditions are so bad. Today we had 163 Kms to go to reach Khorog, which we did at about 15.30. The road was better, in parts today, and we actually spent some time…
Great camp site last night, but we are on our way by 8.30am. Not too far down the barely road which is marked on the mp as ‘Highway 41’ we had a choice of tracks to follow, straight ahead or right, over a bridge. While trying to get MapMe to…
Day 70 and it’s a “brown” day. Dushanbe, the Tajik capital, is hot but wrapped in a thick brown haze. Smog mainly caused by traffic pollution, but with a fair bit of industrial pollution added, I suspect. China has relocated a number of their “dirty” industries here. Particularly the production…
We said farewell to our Khujand hosts, after Marina’s sister very kindly arrived with a SIM card for us. Retracing our steps back through the city and south on the road to Dushanbe, Tajikistan’s capital. Cooler today. We must be becoming acclimatised. Temperatures in the 30’s feel blissfully cool. Heading…
A disturbed night. The first night in the land Rover for ages, it seems. A cool night but goddam dogs barking at the moon all night! Jen mentioned us arriving at the lake edge last night and pulling in near another Land Rover Defender. A Swiss registered vehicle with a…