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KYRGYZ HORSE
EXPEDITION
6 MONTHS, 3 HORSES, 2500 KMS
ONE GREAT ADVENTURE
Kyrgyzstan – the land of free men and horses.
There comes a time for every dedicated traveller to blaze a trail of their own on an expedition. We've marked the Kyrgyz summer of 2011 as that time for us. We're planning a horsey adventure that will take us beyond the pale of touristic travel and onto the ancient bridle paths of the Silk Road.
You can read about the route, the dangers, the average (we hope) day on the road, see our much too enormous gear list and find out what inspired us on the Kyrgyz Horse Expedition pages.
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Expedition Teasers
| Good Scouts - Logistics |
| Visas Information about longer stay visas in Kyrgyzstan is not easy to come by. Tourist visas are for 1 month and last time we easily extended ours for an extra month in Bishkek. Obviously that's not going to cut it for this expedition. I think the answer is a “private” visa which we should be | |
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| Inspiration Everywhere - Why We Want To Go |
| We've backpacked and overlanded and trekked and cruised. Every trip has been wonderful, but it's left us with a hunger for true exploration. We'd been looking for a way to break out into true expeditionary travel but the idea for the Kyrgyz horse expedition didn't really crystallise for a long | |
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| Preparing For The Inconceivable |
| Horse Care & Riding We've both done plenty of horse riding, and Doug has owned horses in the past. I also spent an entire summer helping to care for the horses in a racing stable in western Queensland. That said, neither of us have any veterinary qualifications or experience treating ill | |
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| Sound Good? Join Us! |
| If you've read this far, you must really like the idea of the Kyrgyz Horse Expedition. Well, you're welcome to come along! You'll obviously need to cover your own expenses and provide your own equipment and horses. However, you could always hire them and join us for part of the trip (trip down | |
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Random Articles
| Trekking to Tibet: Hilsa to Taklakot |
| Clear sunshine! From the journal (expletives not deleted): The sky is clear. The wind dropped and it's really cold. I woke in the dark this morning with my left knee killing me, my right knee complaining, and my entire body coated with tent condensation, which had the effect of making ... | |
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| Review & Tips: Taman Negara, Malaysia |
| Please be aware that these posts don't provide comprehensive, guide book level information. We're not claiming a lack of bias either ;) These overviews are simply a record of our experience which we post in the hope that they may occasionally provide more up to date, specific or detailed ... | |
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| Ban Noi Toilet Surprise |
| A warning: We'd suggest that you do not read this post if you are eating, are squeamish about matters eliminatory, or are convalescing from any condition involving biliousness. There's also a bit of vulgar colloquial language... We've just completed a week's trekking and kayaking ... | |
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| Trekking to Tibet: Chiu Monastery, Lake Manosarovar and the road into the West |
| En route to the Guge Kingdom From the journal (expletives not deleted): Man! Was it cold last night! Finally got to use the sleeping bag as a bag. Socks, long thermals - top and bottom, beanie, gloves, silk liner, bag - and I was still cold early in the morning. Ice heavy on the tents in the ... | |
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| The Eternal Flames of Chimaera |
| "Just a number of small barbeques" he said... "Near Adratchan, not far from the ruins of Olympus, a number of rounded serpentine hills rise among the limestone, and some of them bear up masses of that rock. At the junction of one of these masses of scaglia with the serpentine, is the Yanar, ... | |
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