i didn’t like Bukhara or Samarkand. I found the recreations of the ancient cities like someone who has had plastic surgery. The blemishes that are so important to character had been shone, polished and fixed to an uncomfortable and false perfection. That aside, the Uzbek people were the friendliest we’ve met this side of Sumatra.
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[Bukhara]
So I should start with Turkmenistan
Turn up your air-conditioners, leave your lights on… all the time, throw away your new bicycle and drive to work. The world needs to urgently sit up and take note of the sloth-like speed at which the globe is warming. This is serious. We need to act now to urgently warm this planet up because it’s freezing in Mongolia. Read the rest of this entry »
These are some photos from the two weeks in Mongolia.
Gobi Goat Herders
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Geez was I wrong about China… I realised this yesterday afternoon as I wandered aimlessly through the streets of Xian, roaming, exploring and getting hopelessly lost in this city’s ancient backstreets. I was determined not to pass the same shopfront twice and succeeded in my aim of quickly losing myself and any sense of direction. Read the rest of this entry »
Day by day, city by city, country by country, we realise how large and complex the world is. We realise how ridiculous it is to try and traverse more than half of it in a meagre six months. We realise that the car is a very small place to spend that time. We realise that we’ve got a long journey ahead of us.
Never again will I chuckle about how “it’s a small world…” It really isn’t. Read the rest of this entry »