May 18, 2016
I spent two months in Central Asia, immersing myself in landscapes, history, culture
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May 4, 2016
Tajikistan has some hills. I already told you all about this. But now I want to show
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April 13, 2016
It was sometime about an hour after my escape from the bureaucratic clutches of the
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March 14, 2016
I was finally able to eat again. It had been a longer than usual bout of travel
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February 24, 2016
During my world wandering I seem to have developed something of a knack for
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February 3, 2016
IT WAS 40˚C IN THE SHADE. Luckily we had some. My Russiaustralian travel-mate Sasha
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January 7, 2016
Borders. Delighting cartographers; thwarting travellers. In Stans #5 I gave you
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December 28, 2015
The first stage of the infamously frustrating Uzbekistan border-crossing experience
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December 3, 2015
From the thousand-year old epic poem of Manas (the greatest hero in history, by
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November 14, 2015
IN WESTERN KYRGYZSTAN, not far from the Uzbekistan border, you will find a bumpy
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October 28, 2015
I arrived after dark at the road junction. Before I could even unload my backpack or
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October 15, 2015
IT ALL STARTED LIKE many travel stories. At an airport. But this time was different,
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