Traveling overland through mainland China offers a great combination of comfort and value for money. Our two greatest challenges were choosing where to go and how to communicate with people. First we’ll talk about some of the hurdles to traveling in China and then try to help you out a bit on destination planning. Essentials [...]
Country Guide: Uzbekistan
October 4, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Travel in Uzbekistan is surprisingly easy and relatively comfortable. The country has lots to offer but getting in can be a bit difficult at first. This guide is intended to help you understand the country and plan your own trip. VISA: This is easily the worst part of travel to Uzbekistan. US Citizens can obtain [...]
Actually getting to Central Asia
September 27, 2010 By 2 Comments
This is part two in a series on how we actually planed and traveled to Central Asia. If you haven’t read the first post you should probably do so before reading this post. Ultimately we decided against going to Azerbaijan entirely for a variety of issues not least of which was a visa. Upon our [...]
Trabzon & Sumela Monastery
September 8, 2010 By 2 Comments
From atop Nemrut we could almost see to Iraq and Iran. Ok, not exactly, but the fact was we were pretty close. Unfortunately, political situations being what they are, our silk road journey had to continue north instead of south. From Nemrut we headed to the Black Sea, on the err “Northern Silk Road.” The [...]
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