The Georgian Military Road To Kazbegi
After checking out Stalin's birthplace and getting chased away by the Russian Red Army from the South Ossetian border, we headed back towards Tbilisi and made a detour heading north on the Georgian Military Road, a 212km long pass that...
Playing Chicken With South Ossetia & Stalin’s Gori Past
After a 2-3 hour walking tour of Tbilisi at dawn, I hopped in my 9am car to Gori and the South Ossetian border. South Ossetia is infamous for being the Russian-leaning autonomous region that declared secession from Georgia and its allegiance to...
The City On A Hill: Tbilisi
From a one-way 4 hour Air Astana flight from Almaty to Tbilisi, I landed at 9:40pm right on schedule. Not only did I get an entry stamp on arrival, I was also handed a free bottle of wine (that's Georgian hospitality for you) by the passport officer...
From Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan To Almaty, Kazakhstan
After a few hours exploring all that Bishkek in the winter had to offer, we drove 20 minutes towards the border between Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, the busiest and largest border crossing in Central Asia. It's best that you do this border crossing on foot, a...
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
From Dushanbe we flew on Somon Air (currently operating 2 flights a week from Dushanbe to Bishkek) for an hour to Manas Airport. Formerly known as Ganci Air Base during Operation "Enduring Freedom", it once housed over 2,000 US troops as they sortied...
Do The Dushanbe
After a one hour drive from the creepy haunted Soviet sanitorium, we arrived in Tajikistan’s capital Dushanbe. Formerly a small village known for its weekly Monday bazaar (the name “Dushanbe” means Monday), it gained global attention in 1920 when the emir of...
Khujand To Dushanbe: Essentially, “The Shining”
From death tunnels to haunted hotels, the last 2 days were straight out of a setup for a horror movie. To begin, we first set off at 8am from Khojand to Dushanbe, driving towards the Fan Mountains. We first stopped over at Istaravshan, formerly...
Khujand: From Uzbekistan To Tajikistan
After 2 days in Samarkand, the group arrived in Tashkent in the afternoon and we did a leisurely walk through Independence Park, observing some national monuments and a public fair. By the memorial to veterans, there are gold plated books listing...
Where Are We Now?
Where Are We Next?
