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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
| The Great Gear List (And Other Expenses) |
| We've been researching equipment since we first decided on a long ride. Thanks to the Long Riders Guild for their excellent equipment review pages, and also to the hundreds of horsemen and women whose stories I've read and pondered on when deciding what needed to go on this list. Thank you as well | |
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| 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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| 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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| 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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Random Articles
| Thinking Aloud: Seperti seekor monyet |
| I am the proudest monkeybutwho is it you seewhen you see me? | |
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| 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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| Just Photos: So far on the Silk Road |
| Good times keep on coming :) No, time doesn't really travel that much slower in the Middle East. We have progressed beyond Day 10 of the trip, and I have the evidence to prove it! (Thanks to Margrete and Jennifer, our favourite geniuses, for the most of these ... | |
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| Review & Tips: Pulau Tioman, 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 ... | |
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| Wat Tham Sua, Krabi |
| Climbing Tiger Temple Far off on the other side of the river, rising through the eastern horizon's evening haze, is a mountain whose peak glows with golden fire in the sunset. | |
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