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Central Asia 2024/25

Episode 1: Traveled from Switzerland to Georgia by taking the Black Sea (trucker) ferry.


Episode 2: Drove over the Caucasus from Georgia to Russia. Explored the beautiful Russian cities of Wladikawkas and Astrachan, before we entered Kazakhstan.


Episode 3: Experienced the very long distances while dring through the beautiful steppe of Kazakhstan.


Episode 4: We had to stay some days in Tashkent, because our dog was biten severely. So we are exploring the capital of Uzbekistan.


Episode 5: Explored bumpy but beautiful pistes in Tajikistan. Do we really need 4x4 for it?


Episode 6: Driving along the border of Afghanistan through an amazing landscape. Is it dangerous to travel there?


Episode 7: The highlight of our entire trip. We made the Pamir highway in Tajikistan on a piste with an altitude of 4700 meters.


Episode 8: Our first mountains with an altitude of over 7000 meters in Kyrgyzstan. A great scenery, and we experienced the first snow at the base camp of Peak Lenin.


Episode 9: At lake Songkul in Kyrgyzstan we felt like beeing in Mongolia. We are overwhelmed by the beauty of this landscape.


Episode 10: Explored the beautiful canyons and beaches around Lake Yssykul in Kyrgyzstan.


Episode 11: Visited a German settlement in Kyrgyzstan, before we drove to Bishkek, the capital, followed by the Tienschan highway.


Episode 12: Arrived at the pearls of the silk road in Uzbekistan. Samarkand is a huge treasure chest.


Episode 13: We landed on another planet, when we discovered the Mangystau area in Kazakhstan. Before we visited the further silk road pearls of Bukhara and Khiwa.


Episode 14: On the way back to Caucasus. This time we did not made only a transit through Russia, but explored the beautiful Republic of Dagestan. Finally our Benz is now in the winter storage in Armenia.