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...
The Golden Road To Samarkand
We travel not for trafficking alone: By hotter winds our fiery hearts are fanned: For lust of knowing what should not be known We make the Golden Journey to Samarkand. - James Elroy Flecker, 1913 The mysticism surrounding The Silk Road has...
New Year’s Eve In Bukhara
The next morning, the group boarded our 9 hour bus ride from 8am-5pm (with an hour lunch break in between at a rest stop) from Khiva to Bukhara. The drive isn’t as pretty as I would expect, as it’s endless barren fields of the Kyzylkum Desert. ...
Khiva: A Journey Through Time
The next morning the group got up at a horrific 4am in the morning for a 5am bus ride to the airport. We embarked on a 7am flight to Urgench, capital of the Khorazem region. Urgench has been regarded as a missable stopover city a stone’s throw...
Where Are We Now?
Where Are We Next?
