The Long Horse Ride Blog
From Beijing to London between the Olympics and beyond
Thursday, 30 September 2010
Snakebite
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Thursday 23rd September. I have reached Taraz, having covered five hundred miles across Kazakhstan. We are all enjoying a day off, Zorbee in...
Tuesday, 28 September 2010
Transiting the Zone.
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Friday 17th September For 21 kms, the main Almaty to Shymkent road actually runs along the Kazkahstan/Kyrgyzstan border. In the past this ha...
Monday, 27 September 2010
Watching Over Us
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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...
Thursday, 23 September 2010
The High Road to Kyrgyzstan
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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. ...
Crows and Dombras
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Thursday 9th September I have been riding steadily westwards along the foot of the Zailisky mountains through some unspoilt and quiet coun...
Wednesday, 22 September 2010
Around Almaty
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Wednesday 8th September Almaty is tucked right into the mountains to the south, so getting round the city without tramping through town mean...
Wolves and Mosquitoes.
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I have been out of touch for the last three weeks due to the fact that we have been camping and I have been unable to charge my laptop, so t...
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