Sary-Tash to China. Help! I need somebody. Help!
Becoming a little stuck in Sary-Tash, Kyrgyzstan. How on earth do I cycle to China? I woke up the following morning to a village covered...
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Jamie Shannon
- Nov 12, 2016
- 9 min
Murghab to Sary Tash, Kyrgyzstan
Currently in Longnan, China. This is very late but up until now I have been thoroughly disconnected from the wider world due to the...
Jamie Shannon
- Oct 25, 2016
- 10 min
Khorog to Murghab. Cycling on the roof of the world!
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 trip. I...
Jamie Shannon
- Oct 13, 2016
- 3 min
Khorog. Table tennis, cheap vodka, Afghan hash and lazy days
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 brutal days...
Jamie Shannon
- Oct 12, 2016
- 7 min
Dushanbe to Khorog - part 2. It's only a grenades from from Afghanistan
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 confident mood for...
Jamie Shannon
- Oct 11, 2016
- 10 min
Dushanbe to Khorog - part 1. 3252 metres never felt so high
It was intimidating to say the very least - setting off from the hostel in Dushanbe. Thoughts of 4500 metre passes, freezing...
Jamie Shannon
- Oct 3, 2016
- 4 min
Entering Tajikistan. I survived the madness of Uzbekistan!
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 Malaysian guy whom was...
Jamie Shannon
- Sep 30, 2016
- 10 min
Bukhara to Tajikistan. Otkuda, otkuda, otkuda!? Get me out of here!
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 car...
Jamie Shannon
- Sep 22, 2016
- 2 min
Bukhara. An unforgettable place
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 wandered the...
Jamie Shannon
- Sep 20, 2016
- 11 min
Khiva to Bukhara. The government pay you? Otkuda, otkuda?!!
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 absolute shit. It's...
Jamie Shannon
- Sep 16, 2016
- 3 min
Khiva - Marvellous, majestic and magical
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 historic part of the...
Jamie Shannon
- Sep 15, 2016
- 4 min
Nurkus to Khiva. Hmm, I guess he’s sleeping here with me then leaving his wife inside...
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 wanted to make...
Jamie Shannon
- Sep 13, 2016
- 8 min
Through Uzbekistan to Nurkus. Mr policeman: Difficult in England to find woman?
No sooner had I stepped out the other side of the border than a horde of black market money changers raced over to me. Their eye’s must...
Jamie Shannon
- Sep 12, 2016
- 6 min
Beyneu to Uzbekistan and the road of death!
After having stayed in the lovely cosmopolitan city that is Beyneu for two nights and getting, quite literally, eaten alive by the...
Jamie Shannon
- Sep 6, 2016
- 10 min
Aktau to Beyneu. Starry eyed nights in the steppe
Okay, just one more day I said to myself. Holed up in my cosy hotel room and knowing precisely what lay ahead of me filled me with just a...
Jamie Shannon
- Aug 31, 2016
- 4 min
A town called Aktau - not the kind of place to vacation
Wednesday 1st September I made it to Kazakhstan. That’s something I was never quite sure I’d hear myself saying. What an awesome feeling....
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