First stage in the Caucasus: cycling westward in Azerbaijan
After an evening of exploring the mud volcanoes and looking out over all the oil platforms in the sea, we…
Some turmoil to get from Central Asia to the Caucasus
This post involves a lot of kilometers, a lot of weird stories, many events, not much cycling, but many various…
Across Uzbekistan’s historic silk-road cities
After regrouping in Qarshi and sorting ourselves out, we decided that we needed to see more of the touristic highlights…
From the mountains to the desert, our first days in Uzbekistan
Leaving from Denau, our plan was to follow the southern road edging the Turkmenistan border towards Bukhara and the Uzbek…
Out of the Pamirs and the ride west
Dushanbe – the capital of Tajikistan – was a surprising city, and very welcome after 6 weeks in remote corners…
Tajikistan, the weird: our final stretch to Dushanbe
About 30 kilometers outside of Qalai Khum, in the hot afternoon sun, we found a guesthouse in the small village…