Silk Road 2017

We leave the Ozon guest house on our 310 km drive to a small village called Arslanbob in the middle of the world’s walnut forest. […]

Today we have a 330 km drive to Toktogul and driving out of Bishkek we notice industry is a stark contrast to this predominantly agricultural […]

Today is a free day in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, so we have a relaxing start to the day and we leave at 10:30 […]

This morning we wake early & surprisingly it’s not too cold as we head outside to the toilet.  The main room of the guest house […]

This morning Michael, David and our guide Akay go to a motor mechanics to see about getting a bracket made up to replace one he […]

In the morning Michael, David, Henk & Ian fit a new fuel pump and the radiator fan that Simon brought from the UK for Dash […]

This morning the boys do some preventative maintenance on some of the cars as the border to Kazakhstan doesn’t open until 10:30. We drive the […]

The boys get up early this morning to run a check over some of the cars and in particular tighten up the exhaust nuts as […]

Today we have a 430 km drive to Kuytun on the highway and we see the biggest wind farm that we have seen so far, […]

As it is very hot today we have a free morning so after we do a bit of work in our room we head to […]