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Kyrgyzstan Photos Pt. 1
Kyrgyzstan Reflections
#1 Shipping containers are recycled in all manner of new uses (see my separate blog post!) #2 There is a plethora of VW cars – Golf Mark 2, Passat, Jetta and lots of Audis from the same era too #3 Morrison shopping bags seem to be cropping up in quite a few of the smaller […]
Some Super Statistics
On October 16th it will be 100 days since we left our lovely little flat in Tokyo and hit the road. So we thought we would do some statistical analysis…… Total distance travelled: 16,862km (10,047miles) Highest elevation: 4655 metres (Ak Baital Pass, Tajikistan) Snow leopard sightings: a big fat 0 Nights in hotel rooms: 10 […]
Kazakhstan: Video
Better late than never, here’s the edit of the footage we shot in Kazakhstan. Apologies to the folk who are interested in seeing more of us as my videos seem to be going the other way and turning more and more into nature documentaries 😉 Enjoy!
Still droning on
Following on from my other piece about choosing our drone, here’s a more technical look into the finer details of using the drone day-to-day. Casual readers will find this monolithically uninteresting!
Kyrgyzstan Route
Sadly, our time in Kyrgyzstan is just about to end….. We’re currently in the second city, Osh, and gearing up to set off for the Tajikistan border tomorrow, aiming to cross on Tuesday. On the trip so far, not only has Kyrgyzstan been the most difficult country to spell, it’s also been the most beautiful. […]
One for the Road
We drove over a mountain today! Where the Japanese would have built a tunnel the Kyrgyzs built a road. The said tunnel would have been expensive, over engineered, straight and pretty damn boring. This road, on the other hand, was cheap to build, extremely basic, curvy and absolutely totally exciting.
A Tale from a Drama Queen High on a Mountain Pass
On the way from Bishkek to Osh tourists sometimes take a detour to Lake Song Kol; a beautiful lake edged by mountains. There are various roads to this lake but we decided we would take a little used high road and travel over a mountain pass. It would be about 160km from the turn off […]
Pardon me for droning on
Quite often when people have seen some of the videos we’ve been making the first question is often “What drone do you use?” So here’s a post to answer that very question.