I’m writing this on 12 August 2014 exactly one year to the day after I set out on this trip to cycle around the world. One year ago I cycled out of a sleepy English village called Aldbourne, population 2,000, in fine summer weather and today I am sat in Xi’an a Chinese city of…
The evening of the day I arrived in Zhangye, I met Meka from the station without a hitch and we rode back into town chatting about what we had been up to while we had been riding apart. Whether or not you hear Meka’s stories depends on Meka pulling her finger out to write about…
It turned out that we weren’t staying in Dunhuang itself but just outside of town right next to the sand dunes, which are one of the things the area is famous for. These were truly impressive with some of the dunes apparently rearing up 800m and looking very beautiful with the clear blue sky behind…
Meka and I spent a few days in Urumqi in order to rest, relax and clean our bikes and other equipment down. We’d had a tough few days in the mountains and a tough couple of weeks in the desert before that so were happy for some downtime. Eating was of course important and I…
We departed Luntai a little later than we would do normally so as to take advantage of the comfort of the hotel room and the inclusive Chinese breakfast buffet, which while filling left me craving cereal quite badly. Luntai was in another oasis like green area that we got to ride through for a large…
In Aksu we didn’t do much but rest and nurse a sense of frustration at being in the hotel we were in, we also ate a lot; some of which was free as apparently being foreign does of occasion mean you get free food in China. After a day in Aksu we set off once…
Hey guys! As you may notice from Adam’s posts, I’ve kept cycling. It took a lot of effort to convince myself to get out of the hostel in Osh and start to ride again. Can’t say that everything suddenly changed and now I am cycling laughing at a sunny day in the shade of trees,…
We decided to spend a couple of days in Kashgar to relax, get the bikes checked over, buy supplies and to see a bit of the city. Kashgar was quite an interesting place as you can very clearly see the Uighur culture meeting the Han Chinese culture not in perhaps any great harmony. Where we…
We spent a couple of days in Osh and while there we stocked up on supplies, did some shopping and took our bikes to be checked up. It turned out this was a good thing for me as the bicycle mechanic we took our bikes to discovered that my rear axle was bent slightly. I…
Hey hey hey Riding Round followers! As I began writing this it was my birthday and we were in my homecity – Osh. I’m 26 and to be exact I was born in Osh area, Uzgen region, Kurshab village. I haven’t been in South Kyrgyzstan for the last 15 years. After my birth my family…
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