Mongolia After a good five days of driving without the assistance of a tarmac road we finally popped out of the wilderness and cruised along a well-maintained highway for 300 metres before our driver abruptly turned off, bounced along some grassland, and parked up outside a shipping container that had been conveniently turned into a …
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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 …
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