Following nomadic footsteps from Osh to Almaty || WO2W cycling in Central Asia (EP.12)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ธ.ค. 2017
- Hi! We're Holly & Conrad
We are currently on a bicycle tour around the world. Our trip started in April 2017 and we have been cycling east ever since. We crossed the to the Pamir Highway in August and are currently in SE Asia. After completing this section of the trip we fly to Australia & NZ and finally the Americas. In these videos, we hope to show you what our life is like on the road.
We left Osh with a renewed spring in our step only to have our bubble burst by Kyrgyz drivers during the first day. After a group huddle we decided to take a taxi up to the reservoir at Toktogul for Conrad's birthday before pressing on to the last two passes of Central Asia.
When faced with the prospect of riding through 3km of an unlit, poorly paved tunnel we opted for the safer (sort of) option of hitchhiking with two truckers. Bikes and bodies intact we emerged the other side and like any good Kyrgyz driver they celebrated with vodka, photos and more vodka.
Entering Almaty was unreal, we had been in Bishkek only three days before but this was a real city, a proper city. The ride to our hostel took us pass countless cafes, (decent) restaurants and actual bike shops.
We have reached many destinations that feel like the 'end' but no more than Almaty. With a week of recharging and relaxing behind us we finally packed our bikes up and said our goodbyes to friends, the mountains and Central Asia.
You can read about Rhys' journey here - blokebikeboat.wordpress.com/
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Music :
Luke Reed - Lose
Aiden Knight - Funeral Singers
Central Asia truly has some of the world's most magnificent views!
New sub binge-watching - must say I am impressed by the footage, the editing, storytelling, held in minimal frills, informative, no-nonsense yet highly entertaining! Right up there in the top YT echelon guys......keep it up......safe journey.....:-)......loving it....:-)......even in Bishkek, after thousands of miles and months on end, you both look like you just got off the plane......metabolism...:-)
Lol that tunnel
Brilliant video love the music x
you guys are rad!
Love this one. Inspirational stuff! We are currently in Serbia and finishing in Istanbul but wish we could have the time to go as far as you guys... I might need another sabbatical...! Let us know what you think of our vids.. Balkans vids should be done in a month or so.. difficult to edit on the road when there's so much going on around you ay!! Great skills on your edits :)
Love the music and the scenery! Sometimes I regret that we went through China instead of Kyrgyzstan and Kasachstan. I like the horses on the roads!
Glad you enjoyed the tunes, we spend a long time choosing them 😀. Would love to hear about your trip through China, we would have liked to but didn't get the visa in time.
hmmm - well...there where areas in china we didn't enjoy so much....
I just finished our first video from china - you can have a look, but there is not too much china to see yet. More to come ;)
alles in 12 taschen look forward to it!
great video again and I understand this is the end of you're journey? I enjoyed you're videos. Happy Christmas 🎄
Cheers! We love your supportive comments :)
This isn't the end for us! stay tuned for more videos in the near future, we're working on some informative videos at the moment whilst we work in Bangkok. As soon as leave after Christmas there will be more actual touring videos too.
H&C
You’re trip is awesome I like it how many days you were spend their??
Thanks for the kind words! We've been riding since April 2017 and will be back in the by 2020 maybe later :).
Made my day you posting another video. The herd of horses along the road, far out. The puppy was clearly very loveable. Is this the end of your journey? :@(
Hi Alex
Really glad to hear how much you are enjoying the videos!
Kyrgyzstan had so many horses, they were so beautiful, as was the little puppy 'Rider'.
You'll be happy to hear that this isn't the end of our journey, we're in Bangkok at the moment and will be leaving after Christmas to ride around SE Asia -> Aus -> NZ -> USA. We will be filming much much more so stay tuned!
Thanks :)
H&C
Hey guys did you enter Kazakhstan after the Caspian Sea? We're cycling central Asia next spring and was just wondering is Kazakhstan would let us back in a second time on the original visa on arrival or if we'd have to buy a separate multiple entry visa to get back in to fly from Almaty. Cheers!
Hey!
We did enter Kazakhstan after taking the Caspian sea ferry and left a few days after crossing into Uzbekistan. We then re entered Kazakhstan after completing the Pamir highway with no problems at all. You'll be fine going in, out and back in again.
Have fun in Central Asia, its an incredible place to ride your bike, we'd love to go back!
How much money did you save before embarking on this trip? Any suggestions for others who want to take some time off and take a bike trip around the world?
We saved around £20k before we left I think we kind of worked out that we would need around 30 - 40 Euros per day to be comfortable. In different parts of the world like Central Asia it is easy to spend very little!!
I'd suggest planning as much as you can, a trip like this can be short or long and it's not always that people can just leave their jobs and take off on a bike. Also, read and watch as much as you can, there are so many really good channels out there and plenty of fantastic blogs that give good advice about gear, routes etc. I'd also suggest visiting crazyguyonabike, you will be able to find blog articles from almost every region of the world.
Enjoy!