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Currently in Longnan, China. This is very late but up until now I have been thoroughly disconnected from the wider world due to the...

After three days in Khorog, and with Grant and Sasha both departing too, I felt it was time to tackle my next challenge of the trip. I...

Arriving in Khorog, I felt like a broken man. I had just been through, what I believe to have been ten of the toughest, most brutal days...

When I woke in the morning, the temperature was -5 but I was feeling rather toasty inside the tent and it put me in a confident mood for...

It was intimidating to say the very least - setting off from the hostel in Dushanbe. Thoughts of 4500 metre passes, freezing...

I arrived at the border at ten and saw the familiar outline of a touring cyclist by the side of the road. He was a Malaysian guy whom was...

From Bukhara, the first 20 km’s east were actually kind of fun. The road wasn’t too bad, the wind wasn’t hindering me much and the car...

I enjoyed a couple of very relaxed days in Bukhara and it felt great to get off the bike. The hotel that I found as I wandered the...

I left the hostel in Khiva at around 09:30 and no sooner had I left the inner city than the road once again tuned to absolute shit. It's...

Silk Road cities in Central Asia Khiva is a super small town and so it didn’t take me long at all to find the old historic part of the...

It would have been nice to cycle together with the three guys I had met but alas we all had different plans. Jess and Tim wanted to make...

No sooner had I stepped out the other side of the border than a horde of black market money changers raced over to me. Their eye’s must...

After having stayed in the lovely cosmopolitan city that is Beyneu for two nights and getting, quite literally, eaten alive by the...

Okay, just one more day I said to myself. Holed up in my cosy hotel room and knowing precisely what lay ahead of me filled me with just a...

Wednesday 1st September I made it to Kazakhstan. That’s something I was never quite sure I’d hear myself saying. What an awesome feeling....

Well I finally find myself aboard my rusting cargo ship crossing the Caspian Sea, and to be perfectly honest, it’s all gone worryingly...

The border was fairly straight forward. It was pretty empty to be honest with only soldiers walking around with, well not much else to...

I received my visa! I crossed the border! I arrived in bloody Baku and the end of my journey across land! As you can imagine – I’m a...

Friday 12th August Eight days have now passed since I first came to Tbilisi. Time is ticking away and it feels like I’m no closer now to...

I left Batumi with my stove kind of fixed by a Georgian man whom didn’t release a smile in the entire forty minutes I was stood in his...