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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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| Planning To Get Lost - The Route |
| We've mapped out our route using a combination of Google Earth, Kyrgyz government released road maps, GPS mapping programs and the intricately drawn US army charts (charted by the Russians I assume) of the 1950s. It takes us into river valleys and over passes that have been lost in time to all but | |
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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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| The Kyrgyz Horse Expedition |
| 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. 3 horses, 6 months, 2500km of trail to be blazed. It's a very serious undertaking – one that will take us beyond the pale of regular travel | |
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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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Random Articles
| Indian Fortune Tellers |
| Connaught Circle, New Delhi, India: A fortune teller told me... In the closing years of WWII, my dad was a young man impatient to get home to Johannesburg after spending the war aboard submarines and destroyers in the Indian Ocean. On shore leave at Mt Lavinia beach in Sri ... | |
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| Trekking to Tibet: From Sipsip Camp across Nara La Pass |
| Another killer day From the journal - (expletives not deleted): We're camped by the Karnali again. Tibet is on the other side of the river. Rose at five this morning - bit warmer than at night. Woke up for a leak last night - saw two mountain massifs glowing in the starlight - another ... | |
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