June 29, 2014
Pictures of mountains: And animals
My travels through Kyrgyzstan improved considerably over the next few days as I broke away into the mountains and began to enjoy the spectacular scenery. The road became very bad but I was in no great hurry. And as I began to climb up my first major pass I saw a few yurts at the side of the road and the children came running towards me. 'Ah,' I thought, 'the lovely yurt kids that Ana told me about! And look they can speak a few words of English!' And indeed they could, as the little darlings ran alongside me screaming, "Give me present! Give me present!" Well, at least it was an improvement - they weren't throwing anything at me.
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After a couple of days of tough but beautiful riding I reached Kazarman, a surprisingly large, sprawled-out village that allowed me the chance to restock for the long road still ahead. Just beyond it I encountered Swiss Danny, a solo cyclist coming the other way. He was on a segmented trip from Switzerland to Hong Kong, doing a bit each year and then returning and carrying on from where he left off. But he said for the first time he was going to take a lift from Kazarman for the rest of this road because it was so difficult.
A couple of hours later as I climbed another steep pass on a fast deteriorating road I began to understand why. And then I met another German couple, Uwe and Isabel, also coming the other way, and also so demoralised by the road that they wanted to take a lift from Kazarman. I guessed the way ahead was going to be a challenge!
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29/06/14 - 42km
30/06/14 - 59km
01/07/14 - 61km
Today's ride: 162 km (101 miles)
Total: 21,803 km (13,540 miles)
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