The Long Horse Ride Blog

Wednesday April 27th The last couple of days to Shalkar have been increasingly sandy, but for the last twenty kilometres there was a rocky r...

April 24th . After leaving Aralsk on April 20th, we intended to follow the track along the railway line northwards. However we had a concern...

I am delighted to report that the Kazakhstan based personel company BOLASHAK http://www.bolashak.com/ have generously agreed to sponsor a s...

It is some time since I wrote on my blog, and I will attempt to bring it up to date! After reaching Kyzlorda at the end of October, and sett...

I often dismount and lead Zorbee to give both of us a change and a rest. In Asia people can never comprehend why one would possibly want to ...

Tuesday 5th October On our day off in Turkestan I was eager to visit the ancient ruined oasis city of Otrar, which lies about 50 miles to th...

Wednesday 29th September As well as pot noodles, our diet while camping has largely consisted of sausage and increasingly stale nan bread....

Thursday 23rd September. I have reached Taraz, having covered five hundred miles across Kazakhstan. We are all enjoying a day off, Zorbee in...

Friday 17th September For 21 kms, the main Almaty to Shymkent road actually runs along the Kazkahstan/Kyrgyzstan border. In the past this ha...

Wednesday 15th September Someone must be watching over us, as when the Lada broke down on Sunday, it was within a hundred yards of one of th...

Saturday 11th September To avoid a long boring tramp along the high road, we have taken a short cut over a spur of the Zailisky mountains. ...