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GigiB went for a bike ride
April 3, 2025
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August 8, 2024
After just a few kilometers in the early hours of the morning, we reached our first stop of the day. We explored a caravanserai with a cistern from the 11th century, which is open to the public. Then we cycled on even straighter and flatter roads compared to the previous day to Gijduvan. There we rested
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August 7, 2024
Today was more of a run-of-the-mill stage. The only goal was to get a good distance from Samarkand to Buchara. We experienced the highlight after just 5 minutes of riding, when we posed with our bikes in front of the Registan. After that, it was main road all day, very flat and very straight. Mostly
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August 5, 2024
After saying goodbye to our great host Afshin, we cycled on a paved road towards Uzbekistan. The hills and mountains became increasingly rare, so that with our average speed of almost 20 kilometers per hour we reached the Silk Road trading town of Panjakent before midday. There we had our last lunch
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August 5, 2024
Because of the altitude to be overcome at the start of the day and the length of the stage, our alarm clocks rang at 4:30 in the morning. We also wanted to escape the traffic a little. That only worked to a limited extent, because early on the trucks rolled over the pass road from Dushanbe to Khujand
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August 5, 2024
In Dushanbe we experienced an unusually urban lifestyle compared to the previous days of travel. The city impressed us on the first evening with its numerous magnificent buildings and skyscrapers. However, unlike European cities, the representative buildings were practically all built in the last 20
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July 31, 2024
The last section of the Pamir Highway took us from Obigarm to Dushanbe. In contrast to most other days, today we were able to drive 99.9% on asphalt roads. In the morning we pedaled up for 1.5 hours, then it was all downhill or straight ahead. We are also grateful for how decently the Tajikis drive
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July 30, 2024
The second to last day on the Pamir Highway offered us another varied program. We set off at 6 a.m. in beautiful weather. We had the 100-kilometer, 10-hour day's ride in mind. We had no idea anything unusual was about to happen when our journey was abruptly interrupted by a dam bursting and flooding
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July 29, 2024
After a two-day break in Kalaikhum due to illness, we finally continued today. Two routes lead from Kalaikhum to the capital Dushanbe, our final destination. The southern route, which has recently been upgraded with the best roads, and the northern route. We opted for the latter, the original route of
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July 26, 2024
The last 40 kilometers along the Afghan border should have been a stone's throw for us after we had mastered 130 km the day before without any problems. But due to an upset stomach on my part (Giorgio) and temperatures around 40 degrees, the journey dragged on despite the roads getting better and better
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July 25, 2024
Yesterday evening I (Nicola) asked myself whether I should wash my sports pants again after a week off-road. For various reasons I didn't do this and this was definitely the right decision. But first things first. Today we wanted to go as far as possible from Rushon to Kalaikhum. We knew that this route
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July 24, 2024
For breakfast we both had 12 fried eggs, tomatoes, cucumbers from the garden and numerous freshly picked white mulberries. We had the opportunity to have a final chat with the hostess, who, as a retired English teacher, spoke excellent English. We then rolled on ever-improving roads through the dramatic
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July 24, 2024
After omelettes and pancakes for breakfast at our homestay in Basid, our friendly hostess provided us with apricots, cucumbers and spring onions as provisions. The road got better and better from village to village that we passed through. There was no sign of asphalt anywhere, but at least there was
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July 24, 2024
We had breakfast with Erik on the terrace of the Mulq Homestay with a beautiful view of the Pamir Mountains. There was a fried egg with eggs from the chickens that roam freely in the garden. Giorgio and the host Mulq picked heavenly apricots from the trees and ate them straight away. Time passed quickly
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July 24, 2024
Admittedly, Nicola has slept better than with the spoke provisionally repaired with Kevlar cord in the back of her mind. The words "you shouldn't continue driving with one spoke too few" and "the Kevlar cord will last until the next workshop" from the repair course she had attended earlier kept echoing
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April 3, 2025
Hi Gigi, cool tour! I missed a few pictures. Best, Sandy
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