Author: juergen

  • Home Sweet Home

    Home Sweet Home

    The last days in Russia and in the Ukraine. It was raining very often. Most time I was just driving with some rest days in between and hours on the border go get back into the EU..

  • Kazakhstan – endless roads

    Kazakhstan – endless roads

    Some days in Almaty to get the motorcycle serviced and endless roads through a sparse area.

  • Kyrgyzstan

    Kyrgyzstan

    In Kyrgyzstan I was able to see sports whith horses and a goat, I tasted milk from a mare, I drove through fantastic landscapes and had a great time in the Happy Hostel.

  • Tajikistan

    Tajikistan

    Tajikistan was a real challenge. The easiest thing was to get the permission to cross a certain area. I also had to cross a landslide and rivers and fought againt a really bad food poisoning.

  • Entry to Tajikistan rejected

    Entry to Tajikistan rejected

    My entry to Tajikistan got declined because I was too early, but I met a person that is walking around the world on foot since about 20 years.

  • Uzbekistan

    Uzbekistan

    Fotos 25.06 No-driving day in Nukus. I visit the art museum, that I got recommended the previous day. The painter, archeologist and collector Igor Vitalyevich Savitsky has collected “all” contemporary art of the 20th century, which he could find in Central Asia and Russia. It’s worth seeing, I spend more than 2 hours in it…

  • through the desert

    through the desert

    Fotos 21.06 Off to Kazakhstan. It is only around 50-60km to the border. At the border I meet Orhan and his son Halit from Turkey. The two are traveling for 3-4 weeks with their motorcycles to ride the Pamir Highway. The departure from Russia and entry into Kazakhstan is fairly quick and without problems. Especially…

  • Russia

    Russia

    Fotos 17.06 Welcome to Russia. Thinking about yesterday. My German camping neighbors were a bit strange. The two did not get out of their caravan. I only saw the man when he went out and lent me the shower. I never saw his wife. Anyway. After a cup of instant coffee, I burn my fingers…

  • Ternopil – not Chernobyl

    Ternopil – not Chernobyl

    First problems with the motorcycle right at the beginning. There is school children throwing colored powder at each oder and I watch a motorcycle race.