The Gobi Desert - Mongolia Our first real day in the Gobi Desert wasn’t quite what I had in mind. Wind and rain had battered the ger all night at our camp in the grasslands and the bad weather continued as we made our way back to something that resembled a road where I naturally …
Ulaanbaatar - Mongolia Maybe it was the shock of spending £14 on a pint of beer at Istanbul airport keeping me awake on the overnight flight to Mongolia, maybe it was the lack of wine, it certainly wasn’t the endless epic movies on offer. It wasn’t that I couldn’t sleep but simply that I had …
Baku - Azerbaijan I had to fly right over Baku to go to Istanbul to go back to Baku as there was no alternative polar bear friendly option available coming from Ashgabat. Annoyingly, in a few days’ time I will have to fly back to Istanbul, to fly back over Baku to get to Mongolia. …
Ashgabat - Türkmenistan Naturally the highway improved as we neared the capital until we found ourselves on some of the most pristine roads on the planet, lined with trees and lawns, controlled by elaborate white or stainless steel traffic lights, connected by roundabouts home to wonderful pieces of architecture, and lit by thousands of streetlights …
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 …
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