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The Stan Plan

(This post is a bit of an itinerary. Sometimes I just don’t have the energy to tell a good story. So just look at the pretty pictures if you get bored reading. -b)

Until I was in Almaty, Kazakhstan, I wasn’t sure if I would go to Kyrgyzstan or not. The news had recently reported numerous [...]

Siberia

(I am in Dushanbe, Tajikistan but here’s my Siberia post – I will try to catch up before I leave Tajikistan next week.)

A van took me from Mongolia across the Russian border to the town of Kosh-Agach. The landscape was unchanged, a barren plain with mountains in the distance, and although most people still looked [...]