A Golden Journey

The Silk Road, Xi'an to Khiva

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Hagia Sophia - Istanbul Istanbul would be the final major stop in my Silk Road adventure, a fitting end. It was my first time visiting...

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Welcome to my travel blog which documents a solo overland journey across the Silk Road, and my exploration of its nature, history and civilizations.

Hagia Sophia - Istanbul Istanbul would be the final major stop in my Silk Road adventure, a fitting end. It was my first time visiting...

Khiva as seen from the Kuhna Ark Citadel I couldn’t resist the play on the title of Frederik Burnaby’s original travel account of his “A...

After leaving Gijduvan, I drove the remaining 50km to Bukhara. The countryside around Bukhara is rather like the farmland one passes...

After leaving Samarkand myself and the driver drove around 243km towards Aydarkul Lake where the plan was to stay the night in a Yurt...

After leaving the Tajikistan border near Panjakent, I arrived in Uzbekistan. It was rainy and the drive through the countryside which was...

Dushanbe As mentioned in my last blog post, given the circumstances I wasn’t initially that pleased with Dushanbe, which was busy, hot...

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~9400+ km to travel

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