I am currently in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan awaiting for my Iranian visa after obtaining ones for Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. I should get it on Thursday all being well and then its off to cycle across the Pamir mountains which I am very much looking forward to. The only visa left to get will then be the Turkmenistan transit visa which I hope to get in Dushanbe. I arrived here after cycling through Kazakhstan from China both of which were great.
China was an incredible journey. It was a shade under 2
months and 5573 unforgettable and epic kilometers. This makes it the most
cycled country on the trip so far beating New Zealand by about 100 km. It is
also now the third county I have spent the most time in. England is obviously
first, Germany second (3.5 years when younger), China third (3.5 months for
work in 2006, 2 months now and a few trips to HK) and then the states fourth (3
months in 1996 and various holidays and work trips of various lengths making
about 5 months total).
China will probably be 4 videos, 2 of which are done and 2
I've got to put together so should be up fairly soon. The reason I do the
videos is document the trip whilst I’m going along and prefer them to just
looking at my photos. I try and use music which I am listening to at the time
or which represents a theme in the clips. I've been listening to ‘The Streets’
a lot whilst in China, which is not something I would usually listen to but the
lyrics make me chuckle and some remind me of home ... “the hazy fog over the
bull ring”, “If they don't win this one and the next one, they're getting
relegated to the third division” ... hmmm ... unfortunately that happened to Wolves where I used to work but
let “push things forward”. At least Villa survived! I know this all happened ages ago but I was without access to this site whilst in China.
Before I blog about the ride in China it’s time to go back to South East Asia, as I’ve uploaded the videos for Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. Take a look!
South East Asia, Part Two - Cambodia
South East Asia, Part Three - Laos
South East Asia, Part Four - Vietnam
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