NZ2050
with Rod Oram
B to B 2024
B to B 2023
Tour of NZ 2023
KŌPIKO 2021
Tour Aotearoa
Almaty to Istanbul – 2023
A 10-week ride along the Silk Road to Istanbul
All’s groovy
Day 24. Tuesday, August 22. Rest day – Samarkand.
Well, 1,962km ridden since Almaty…only another 3,183km to go ...
Tent-crashed by a party
Day 25. Wednesday August 23. Samarkand to Bakhchakalan. 137km, with 501m of climbing.
As a bunch of us cruised ...
Into the desert
Day 26. Thursday, August 24. Bakhchakalan to Bukhara. 159km, with 351m of climbing.
Jokes about last night’s ...
Rulers wise and foolish
Day 27. Friday, August 25. Rest day – Bukhara.
Bukhara is Uzbekistan’s seventh largest city and one of its ...
Overnighting in a (modern) caravanserai
Day 28. Saturday, August 26. Bukhara to Gazli. 103km, with 103m of climbing.
Welcome to a modern-day ...
Sand, wind and camaraderie
Day 29. Sunday, August 27. Gazli to Sarimoy. 163km, with 343m of climbing.
We knew this, the middle day of our ...
Peak pedalling for Peter
Day 30. Monday, August 28. Sarimoy to Khiva. 164km, with 409m of climbing.
Same desert, same distance. But two ...
Exquisite Khiva
Day 31. Tuesday, August 29. Rest day - Khiva.
Resting today in Khiva was a perfect way to celebrate the ...
War, ancient and modern
Day 32. Wednesday, August 30. Travel day to Tashkent.
We bade farewell to Khiva at 6.30am this morning in ...
Into the wild blue yonder
Day 33. Thursday, August 31. Rest day – Tashkent
Geopolitics is the reason we’ve back tracked in Uzbekistan. ...
Blissful Tbilisi
Day 34. Friday, September 1. Travel day to Tbilisi
The supermoon looked as fabulous from our hotel in ...
A thin place
Day 35. Saturday, September 2. Tbilisi to Udabno. 79km, with 1,031m of climbing.
On the map our route today ...