Jamie ShannonNov 12, 201610 minSary-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...
Jamie ShannonNov 11, 20169 minMurghab to Sary Tash, KyrgyzstanCurrently in Longnan, China. This is very late but up until now I have been thoroughly disconnected from the wider world due to the...
Jamie ShannonOct 25, 201610 minKhorog 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 ShannonOct 13, 20163 minKhorog. Table tennis, cheap vodka, Afghan hash and lazy daysArriving 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 ShannonOct 12, 20167 minDushanbe to Khorog - part 2. It's only a grenades from from AfghanistanWhen 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 ShannonOct 11, 201610 minDushanbe to Khorog - part 1. 3252 metres never felt so highIt was intimidating to say the very least - setting off from the hostel in Dushanbe. Thoughts of 4500 metre passes, freezing...
Jamie ShannonOct 3, 20164 minEntering 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 ShannonSep 30, 201610 minBukhara 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 ShannonSep 22, 20162 minBukhara. An unforgettable placeI 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 ShannonSep 20, 201611 minKhiva 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 ShannonSep 16, 20163 minKhiva - Marvellous, majestic and magicalSilk 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 ShannonSep 15, 20164 minNurkus 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 ShannonSep 13, 20168 minThrough 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 ShannonSep 12, 20166 minBeyneu 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 ShannonSep 6, 201610 minAktau to Beyneu. Starry eyed nights in the steppeOkay, 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 ShannonAug 31, 20164 minA town called Aktau - not the kind of place to vacationWednesday 1st September I made it to Kazakhstan. That’s something I was never quite sure I’d hear myself saying. What an awesome feeling....