Disclaimer: Due to the number of comments that have been received it has been felt necessary to clarify that this trip is in no way based on "The Long Way Round" which the authors of the trip were not aware and nor was it first broadcast of at the time at which this trip was drunkenly conceived. The authors of this trip would like to distinguish their intended trip from the journey undertaken in "The Long Way Round" in that unlike Charlie Borman and Ewan McGregor they are not experienced riders (they have both only been riding motorbikes for just over one year), they are not receiving sponsorship and they will not have a support crew with them at any point on the journey. Just to avoid any further confusion it has been thought that it would be helpful to point out that Tom Horovitch and Peter Caley are both fictional characters and are not famous film stars.

Saturday, October 21, 2006

Osh, Kyrgyzstan (again) - 11,232 miles from London

Having traveled through Tajikistan (see last entry) and Uzbekistan we are back in Osh preparing to make the crossing into China on Monday morning that will mark the end of our time in the Stans. Below are some pictures from Uzbekistan and a few from Osh.
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The Registan Samarkand, Uzbekistan

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The dome of a Medressa, Samarkand, Uzbekistan

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"Loads of money" - not really, this is a US$100 worth of Uzbek currency (the Sum) which has clearly been subjected to serious inflation

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The Abul Aziz Khan Medressa, Bukhara, Uzbekistan

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Eric and Rachel, who we hung out with in Uzbekistan, playing pool (badly - as were we!) in Tashkent, Uzbekistan

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Trademark and copyright infringements galore at McDonalds, in Osh Bazaar, Kyrgyzstan


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A woman, a child and some animal heads at the Osh Bazaar, Kyrgyzstan

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Tom and Eric. A different Eric to the one we met in Uzbekistan. This Eric is a biker riding from Japan to Denmark. We met him in Osh after months of correspondence and the checking of each other's blogs. We wish him well, particularly with the journey from Osh to the Tajik border which, from all accounts, does not sound like anything resembling a road!

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