After a peaceful night in the desert, there remained around 85 km to reach the border city of Turkmenabat, Turkmenistan’s second largest city. Just as yesterday, we started early in the day to avoid the strongest winds in the afternoon. Floating through the desert Compared to yesterday, the wind was much more in our favor. […]

While we crossed the first part of Turkmenistan by car, we definitely wanted to cross Karakom Desert, Asia’s hottest desert, by bicycle. Up to the Uzbek border there are 280 km to cycle in 2.5 days. As in every desert we have been on this trip, also Karakom desert has a strong winds, and it […]

Today we went to see sightseeing with Guvanch and Aygul, two local brothers and sisters, Guvanch drove with us from Sarahs to Mary yesterday. But first we had to take care of some administrative things such as getting a SIM card or changing our Iranian money to Turkmen Manat. Interesting architecture in Mary It is […]

Today was dedicated to passing first the Iranian and then the Turkmen border posts. Afterwards it was planned that some friends of a friend will pick us up and take us in a 4-hour bus ride to Ashgabat, Turkmenistan’s surreal capital. Good-Bye Iran Since my arrival in Shiraz on March 24 I spent in total […]