Dashoguz - Türkmenistan I won’t lie, I never do much to the frustration of Rut, but I never knew Turkmenistan was such a badass place to go, apparently the North Korea of Central Asia and receiving less tourists, approximately 10,000 per annum. Its borders had only just opened on April 1st after closing them for …
Bukhara to Khiva - Uzbekistan It doesn’t feel right not mentioning the Silk Roads as Uzbekistan was well and truly part of them. I’m no historian but I believe they can be summed up as ancient overland trading routes throughout Central Asia that the major population centres of the day traded through until Europeans worked …
Tashkent to Samarkand - Uzbekistan Immediately upon landing in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, I was met with scenes I suppose I was hoping for along. Our plane taxied towards the airport terminal passing parked up planes dating back to soviet times and all the way up to the present-day Dreamliner. It was a little …
Socotra - Yemen The novelty of bouncing around off-road wears off after some years which only someone who has been lucky enough to experience plenty of it can say, but that doesn’t mean I don’t still love it. Our first day on Socotra found us climbing up a rocky mountain pass that apparently led to …
Socotra - Yemen It was pointed out to me that I was a grumpy bastard while travelling last summer. In fact, shortly after returning home my family were concerned I was dying of kidney failure which I laughed at under the illusion that I was feeling great. Six months on and looking back, I now …
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