Posted in Uzbekistan on Aug 21st, 2010 No Comments »
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Drag around this VR panorama of the Aral Sea @ Muynaq. I will create a higher rez version when I get home, but for now I’m rationing bandwidth, posting this via satellite from our camp ground in the middle of nowhere Kazakhstan
Posted in Uzbekistan on Aug 20th, 2010 No Comments »
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A new batch of photos just posted to Flickr!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/autarken
And a quick video clip from the Aral Sea!
Posted in Kazakhstan on Aug 20th, 2010 No Comments »
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I couldn’t really say how nice of a town Almaty is since I’ve seen little besides the parking lot of our hotel, but following the the trend that’s been set since Turkmenistan the people have been overwhelmingly nice.
First order of business yesterday was to sort out our tourist “registration”… something you have [...]
Posted in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan on Aug 19th, 2010 No Comments »
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That “lamb shish” that I “just finished” in my last post? It was a vile poisoned thing! Either they rushed it out or the whole kitchen was filthy, because that was the 2nd worst food poisoning incident I’ve had yet.
After finishing that post I heard my name called in the [...]
Posted in Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan on Aug 16th, 2010 No Comments »
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Waking up early and leaving our desert camp ground at Darvaza, we made for the Uzbek border, filling our fuel tanks both internal and external to full, including some extra 5 liter water bottles, as we’d heard about a gas shortage in Uzbekistan. We made the Turkmen exit border at about [...]