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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.
ARTICLES &
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NEWS, OPINION, TIPS &
TALES FROM THE TRACK
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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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| 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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| 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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| Why Kyrgyzstan? Land of Horses & Free Riders |
| We didn't pick Kyrgyzstan out of a hat, or with a dart and blindfold. Not only do we already know it's a great country to travel in, with friendly people, fascinating history and spectacular scenery, it's also possibly one of the world's best places to travel by horse over long distances. Lonely | |
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Random Articles
| Leptis Magna, Libya |
| Catchup Postage: Leptis Magna, Libya Leptis Magna in the blue spring morning. Our flash visit starts here at the Arch of Septimius Severus on the Via Trionfale which runs down to the harbour on the Mediterranean. Lucius "Lucky" Septi was Leptis Magna's most famous native son, rising to become ... | |
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| The Kyrgyz Horse Expedition is born |
| Not an Idle Dreamer (A discourse on the hard labour involved in a life of frivolity and grand plans revealed) It's been ages since I've posted to the dreaming track. I've been leaving all the blog work up to poor Doug, who does a much better job at blogging things anyway. I have been ... | |
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| Two months on the road |
| It has been two months since we managed to get ourselves onto a plane Singapore-bound. We've spent most of that time traipsing around peninsular Malaysia. From time to time we've managed to post some pictures or tell a story about some of the beautiful places we've seen. Occasionally we even post ... | |
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| Video: Green Turtle Moon |
| Turtle nesting & hatchling release at Cherating Turtle Sanctuary I expected that our moonlight trip to see the turtles would be interesting, cute, fun - a good way to pass a night in sleepy Cherating. I was therefore unprepared for the deeply moving experience it ... | |
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| There's something about monks... |
| Tiger Cave Temple, Krabi, Thailand When I was 10 years old I would run all the way home from school so that I wouldn't miss the first words in the opening credits of my favourite TV show. I can still remember exactly how they sounded - "In the time before Monkey, primal chaos reigned..." Monkey ... | |
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