Next stop, Osh, Kyrgyzstan,
When you last heard from me (in the October edition), we were in Mongolia’s capital, Ulaanbaatar, having entered that country through a tiny, remote border checkpoint in the north east and circumnavigated a portion of the Gobi Desert.
The GPS track map provided shows that since then we’ve exited Mongolia via a long route across the north west, transited through a beautiful part of Russia, travelled the length of Kazakhstan and travelled extensively through stunning high-altitude Kyrgyzstan.
This article was submitted from Kyrgyzstan’s second largest city, Osh, home to Central Asia’s biggest bazaar and where we paused to catch up on a few things... and explore this interesting city!
Highlights and challenges
It’s been pure adventure all the way; sometimes highlights and other times challenges to overcome. Most of the 1,600km route we took between Mongolia’s capital and the Russian border was off-road, and we needed to complete it within a strict timeframe in order to comply with our visa expiry deadline – it’s worth noting that even a single day overstay in some of these countries can land you in serious trouble with the local
