Kazakhstan

14 January 2016

Feast of Wire

Leaving Bishkek was never going to be easy after spending such an enjoyable couple of weeks there. On top of powerful inertia, Mirlan, my host in Bishkek, was adamant that I couldn’t leave on the Kyrgyz national holiday 24th September, urging me to stay for the family celebrations. But this time I had a real […]

14 August 2015

A rough, rough way to go

Kazakhstan, Stories, Uzbekistan

On the road for six months now, I have been gloriously free from daily and weekly time pressures. Visa constraints notwithstanding, my only real deadlines this year have been to cross the higher Asian mountain ranges before winter, and, ideally, to traverse the desert regions of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan before the hottest part of the […]