We got all the visas in Monday (12.7.2010); The Chinese visa in the morning and Kyrgyz one in the evening. We missed the afternoon train till Angren, which is the last town before you start ascending towards Fergana valley. We only had 3 more days left before our...
We arrived to Samarkand early in the morning. The train station was few km out of the old city, on the edge of the new Samarkand. We cycled through the new city which was still under construction and looked very European. It was strange that they were building new...
Khiva is one of the most magical towns we saw in Central Asia. It's located south-west of Aral Sea in the oasis on the delta of lower Amu-Darya River in ancient times called Oxus, surrounded with endless desert. In the south is Kara-Kum and in the north Kyzyl-Kum...
Next day we woke up early in the morning, had some tea and apples, while waiting for the truck Ismail tried to arrange. Some time passed and no cars arrived, so we decided to catch the train instead, from the train station in Qaraqalpakstan (some 25km south), or hitch...
First part was leavening Kazakhstan. It was hard to guess where to go, because they were rebuilding the border and there was a big mess.So we just follow the path on our left side and were heading into the building in front of us, when a guard started to whistle. We...