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Breaking the Cycle Central Asia: A cradle of civilisation and nurturing nature
8th – 15th May | Nukus to Urgench | Distance: 196km | Total Distance: 3051km Nukus was a two day pit stop where we changed filmmakers – Anna Plocinska arrived from Switzerland for a month-long stint and Georgia left for…
Breaking the Cycle Central Asia – Moynaq to Nukus: Starting from the end (Amu Darya rivermouth)
4th – 7th May | Moynaq to Nukus | Distance: 256km | Total Distance: 2855km In Moynaq I arranged for a guide to be with us for the remainder of the way to Nukus. Khurmet, whom we had met at the Yurt Camp beside the…
Breaking the Cycle Central Asia: Aral Sea South – Spectacularly sad
Nukus, Karakalpakstan, the UZ border to Moynaq Distance: 313km | Total Distance: 2599km The old Soviet-built train chugged slowly across the dry, featureless steppe stopping occasionally at villages and for about 90 minutes at the border for immigration and customs. I barely slept…
Breaking The Cycle Central Asia: Around The Aral Sea West Coast (Kazakhstan)
23rd – 27th April | Akespe to the border Distance: 305km | Total Distance: 2286km Day 31: Akespe to Akbasty – 104km Once out of the sand at Akespe, it was a relief to turn onto the Gas Pipeline Road –…
Breaking the Cycle Central Asia – All the way to the Aral Sea
10th – 14th April | Kyzylorda to Kokaral Dam Distance: 520km | Total Distance: 1719km Day 18 – 124km We left our Kyzylorda apartment – on the fourth floor of a Soviet-style building – apartment blocks have the same design all over…
A Dam Collapse and the Accidental Lake
27-29 March 2025 | Total distance: 408km From Tashkent the plan was to drive back to Buka, the town that we stayed in on our first night in Uzbekistan, as I didn’t need to cycle the same road twice and…
BREAKING THE CYCLE CENTRAL ASIA – A chilly start
The first six days on the road have been very hectic and I haven’t found time to publish this blog until now. I decided to make Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan the expedition base as it is most central to…
BREAKING THE CYCLE CENTRAL ASIA – Introduction
Welcome to the first blog for what’s going to be an epic journey through the heart of Central Asia. I’m writing from my room in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, soon to travel 300km north across the Fann Mountains and down to the ancient…