Tag: central asia

• “Blinded” by selfies in Pakistan

  

  Weeks before entering Pakistan, we already had a love/hate relationship with it…

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  Jan 12, 2020

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• China, Chi-no!

  

  Our time in China was nothing like we were expecting. We ended up doing very little cycling and a lot of discovering, not just the uniqueness of Xinjiang Province and how the Chinese government tries to control absolutely everything, but also about ourselves.

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  Nov 21, 2019

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• About that Time we Went to the Pakistani Border Knowing we Didn’t Have a Visa

  

  Bad Internet on The Pamir, nowhere to go to in China and terrible IT systems in Pakistan; a story about cycling to Nepal

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  Oct 29, 2019

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• Tajikistan; cycling at the top of the world!

  

  Tajikistan is, for many cyclists, synonym of mountains, and that’s what we went there for! What we didn’t know, nor expected, was that there’s much more to fall in love with than just that…

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  Sep 22, 2019

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• Surprisingstan; unexpected Uzbekistan

  

  Spring had finally come and we were really looking forward to camping and spending some time in the wild. “Unfortunately”, Uzbek people had other plans for us…

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  Aug 12, 2019

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• Quickmenistan; 96 hours in Turkmenistan

  

  We were expecting 5 days of hardship, flat and boring desert landscape and the police force on our back but what we found was, luckily, far from this reality.

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  Jul 29, 2019

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