by Kirsty | December 25, 2016 | Kyrgyzstan
For me, one of the most intriguing things about the nomadic tribes in Kyrgyzstan is their traditional sports and games. Central Asian games are unlike anything you’ll see at the Olympics, and focus on very macho skills including horsemanship and general strength and...
by Kirsty | December 19, 2016 | Annual Review, Belarus, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Czech Republic, England, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Long term travel, Malaysia, Moldova, Photo Essay, Poland, Singapore, Slovakia, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine
Here we go again with a roundup of where our 2016 travels took us, featuring a lot of wanderlusty photographs. Is it really a year since our last annual travel review?! At the start of every year we catch ourselves saying “we’re going to really slow it down this...
by Kirsty | November 28, 2016 | Kyrgyzstan
We were following a barely discernible track traversing the grazing pastures which are home to nomadic Kyrgyz families and known locally as the jailoo, the rain beating down on our 4WD and the mist lying heavy on the endless horizon. Our destination was Peak Lenin...
by Kirsty | November 24, 2016 | Bulgaria, Street Art
Whilst exploring Sofia recently, with our usual eye out for street art, we noticed a couple of those electricity boxes; the kind you don’t usually notice. I don’t know what the correct name for them is – Electricity transformer boxes or kiosks? Circuit...
by Kirsty | November 2, 2016 | Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan, Photo Essay, Tajikistan
A photographic journal of our journey from Osh in Kyrgyzstan to Murgab in Tajikistan This summer we took a road trip that will go down as one of the most visually enthralling adventures we have experienced: traversing a stretch of the renowned Pamir Highway before...
by Kirsty | November 2, 2016 | Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Practical advice and information for independent travellers & backpackers on how to book transport for the Pamir Highway and through the Wakhan Valley In late July/early August 2016 we travelled independently along the Pamir Highway and into the Wakhan Valley. In...
