Packing Day 2: Into the Foothills If I should ever be asked on a quiz show for a million $, what the favourite Bishkekian Sunday Summer pastime is, I could answer without hesitation, It’s escaping the heat of the city and heading into the Mountains to picnic and hike to the waterfall. So it is…
Day 1: Finding our Feet A very wobbly exit from Bishkek, through right-hand-drive traffic on HEAVILY LADEN bikes, has us a little rattled, but we are soon past the hustle and bustle and pedaling along the canal, which we follow, more-or-less, for the next 35km. Here we detour into a small town in the hopes…
Bike-Packing Preamble: Beating the Dreaded Jet Lag There’s an up and a down to everything in Life and for bike-packing, it’s always the getting there that’s a drag. Of course, if we were prepared to pay the price, we could largely avoid the crippling jet-lag that inevitably accompanies a 48-hour journey with practically no sleep.…