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The high price for cheap gear

By bicycle through Kyrgyzstan Country: Kyrgyzstan From 38 km before Ala-Bel Pass to Bishkek Days on the bike: 3 Kilometers cycled: 107.2 Average Kilometers per day: 35.7 Total Kilometers cycled till Bishkek: 7775.66 Total days traveled till Bishkek: 396 Lesson learned: 25 and 38 kilometers is no difference for car drivers Laughed about: […]

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Into the Kyrgyz Mountains

By bicycle through Kyrgyzstan Country: Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan From Tashkent to 38 km before Ala-Bel Pass Days on the bike: 5 Kilometers cycled: 253.5 Average Kilometers per day: 50.7 Total Kilometers cycled till Nearly Ala-Bel Pass: 7668.46 Total days travelled till Nearly Ala-Bel Pass: 393 Lesson learned: Three days are […]

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Cotton fields on the Silk Road

Country: Uzbekistan From Samarkand to Tashkent Days on the bike: 4 Kilometers cycled: 318.41 Average Kilometers per day: 79.60 Total Kilometers cycled till Tashkent: 7414.96 Total days travelled till Tashkent: 381 Lesson learned: Do not take the Uzbek registration bureaucracy too easy Most wonderful miracle: Meeting a collegue from high […]

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Between buckling calves and donkey carts

Country: Uzbekistan From Bukhara to Samarkand Days on the bike:4 Kilometers cycled: 264,55 Average Kilometers per day: 66,14 Total Kilometers cycled till Samarkand: 7096,55 Total days travelled till Samarkand:373 Lesson learned: Melon is a better snack than junk food and cookies Laughed about: ourselves for not being able to ever […]

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Thank you Esmeralda

  Country: Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan From Turkmenabat to Bukhara Days on the bicycle:3 Kilometers cycled: 152 Average Kilometers per day: 50,66 Total Kilometers cycled till Bukhara: 6832 Total days travelled till Bukhara:654 Lesson learned: Corny soap operas convert grumpy soldiers in laughing friends Most wonderful miracle: Seven nice old men […]

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Mario Kart on a bike

  About a lovey-dovey trucker, too many potholes, “adding some girls”, a threatening taxi driver and the end of the world Tuesday 17th of July 2012 By bike from Yerevan to Iran part three. Before we made our way we visited the ancient observatory Qarahunge that was situated just a […]

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Wonderful encounters

About a silent moment of staring, a fruity award, dance lessons and green lemonade Saturday 14th of July 2012 By bike from Yerevan to Iran part two. When we got up we decided to cycle far this day. We wanted to cross some mountains, bring some kilometers behind us and […]

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Miss Grouch and the mountain peak

About a beautiful view, a mean swindle, a really creepy sleeping place and an apparently never-ending uphill with a peak. Thursday, 12th of July 2012 By bike from Yerevan to Iran part one. I thought it would never happen. Everywhere we read about it. They said it was visible from […]

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