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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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| Ordinary Day On An Amazing Adventure |
| So what will each day of our journey be like? Of course we won't know until we set out, but we hope it will work something like this: We plan to cover approximately 25 kilometres a day, 5 days a week, riding between about 7am in the morning and 3pm in the afternoon. Most days will be shorter | |
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| What We Can Do For You |
| If you're wondering why you or your company should consider sponsoring us on the Kyrgyz Horse Expedition, here are a few great reasons: Excellent real-life endurance testing for your product As many high quality professional photos of your product or service in use as you can poke a | |
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| Timing is Everything |
| There are only 6 months of the year when this kind of travel is possible (for us) in Kyrgyzstan. Before May and after October the passes are under snow and ice, feed for horses disappears and a terribly cold winter sets in. We would have loved to have attempted the journey this year, but | |
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| Help Us If You Can |
| Like to get rid of any riding equipment in decent condition that you can't use anymore? Cleaning out the barn or stable? We'd love donations of any used equipment that can help us keep down the cost of the Kyrgyz Horse Expedition. The list of gear we require can be found here. Please contact us | |
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Random Articles
| Tioman Island: Making Tracks |
| Us and them! If all's gone well, by now our track has brought us to Istanbul and we're recovering from twenty eight hours of air travel. Our pace has been fairly leisurely of late, but all that's about to change - the Turkey itinerary's hectic! Oh. In case you're wondering what kind of ... | |
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| Carthage Again |
| Catchup Postage: Carthage I'm in need of a few new words. I am... wonderated! Soaked in awe at the breadth of history beneath my feet. I... olfactinate! Did these flowers bloom upon this hillside those three thousand years ago? When Elyssa girt this mount with cowhide, did this scent of ... | |
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| Trekking to Tibet: La Chu Camp |
| Contemplation From the journal: I'm sitting in the shadow of this mighty mountain I've come so far to see... ...I'm so shaken up. We've spent another 9 hours bouncing over the tracks of western Tibet to the foot of Mt Kailash. My stomach is a mess, my emotions are a mess, my body is a mess. | |
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| Alexandria, Egypt |
| Trying to keep up Sorry about the lack of posts recently, but the pace of this journey and the dearth of laptop-friendly net cafés in this part of the world prevents us keeping you regularly updated. | |
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| 1 Cam Chi, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi |
| Vampires in Hanoi I once read that Bohemian peasants with a congenital blood disease which causes severe iron deficiency may have inspired much of vampire mythology prior to ol' Count Vlad. Symptoms include pallor, an aversion to sunlight (which causes skin lesions and rashes in sufferers) and ... | |
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