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...
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Jamie Shannon
- Sep 21, 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
- 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 14, 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 13, 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 7, 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 26, 2016
- 11 min
Cycle touring through Azerbaijan
The border was fairly straight forward. It was pretty empty to be honest with only soldiers walking around with, well not much else to...
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