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Breaking the Cycle Central Asia: The Wakhan Valley
10th – 14th July | Langar to Khorog (and return to Dushanbe) | Distance: 216km | Total Distance: 7075km My journey through the Wakhan Valley began in Langar, where the Pamir River and the Wakhan River (that flows from the Wakhan Corridor in…
Breaking the Cycle Central Asia: Crossing the remote high Pamirs to Lake Zorkul (and on to Langar)
6th – 9th July | Murghab to Langar | Distance: 318km | Total Distance: 6859km Murghab town, the main centre in the eastern Pamir (population 6000), on first appearances is a desolate place where temperatures can drop to -50C in winter and reach 30C+…
Breaking the Cycle Central Asia: Battling the beautiful Bartang Valley and the Pamir Highway
29th June – 4th July | Rushan to Murghab | Distance: 529km | Total Distance: 6541km Following the Amu Darya from the Aral Sea to it’s source(s) is a complicated journey. So far I have followed the Amu Darya, its key tributary, the Zerafshan River,…
Breaking the Cycle Central Asia: The Power of the Panj River
20th – 27th June | Termez (Uzbekistan) to Rushan (Tajikistan) | Distance: 719km | Total Distance: 6012km I may have just posted Blog 18, but the last couple of weeks have been intense with no time to write or opportunities to post. Also, I…
Breaking the Cycle Central Asia: Back to the Amu Darya
14th – 19th June | Urgut to Termez | Distance: 403km | Total Distance: 5293km Back in Uzbekistan with the new team, Georgia (just returned from the UK), Ilhom and Mansood, the aim over the next four days was to reach the city…
Breaking the Cycle Central Asia: The Zerafshan-Karakum Corridor – Part 3 Samarkand to Khisorak Settlement
9th – 12th June | Samarkand to Khisorak Settlement | Distance: 275km | Total Distance: 4890km So far I’ve explored UNESCO’s Zerafshan – Karakum Corridor World Heritage sites in the Karakum Desert and Zerafshan River hinterland; a route of virtually all flat land.…
Breaking the Cycle Central Asia: The Zerafshan-Karakum Corridor – Part 2 Bukhara to Samarkand
1st – 8th June | Bukhara to Samarkand | Distance: 271km | Total Distance: 4615km Arriving in Bukhara, there was a sense of what it was like arriving as a Silk Road traveller who had endured crossing the desert from Merv –…
Breaking the Cycle Central Asia: Zerafshan-Karakum Corridor – Part 1 Merv to Bukhara
27th May -1st June | Merv to Bukhara | Distance: 404km | Total Distance: 4344km The Zerafshan-Karakum Corridor – Stage 1 Arising in the mountains of Tajikistan, the Zerafshan River gushes down to the steppe, and passes through the legendary city of…