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September 15th, 2006 | categorizilation: all categories,highlights,Kyrgyzstan

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Distance / è·é›¢ï¼š 62.46km
Time / 時間: 4h 38m
Average speed / å¹³å‡é€Ÿåº¦ï¼š 13.5km/h
Distance to date / 今日ã¾ã§ã®ç©ç®—è·é›¢ï¼š 2308km

English Summary: Dry pasta for breakfast, lunch and tea made for another tough day physically, but oh man, check out the scenery (in the Photo Gallery). Just massive. Quite definitely makes all that hard work worth it.

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Room with a view at Kerege-Tash Pass, Kyrgyzstan

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Morning sun on Kerege-Tash Pass, Kyrgyzstan

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Coming down from Kerege-Tash Pass, Kyrgyzstan

On the way to Naryn, Kyrgyzstan

Heading into bad weather towards Archali settlement, Kyrgyzstan

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September 14th, 2006 | categorizilation: all categories,highlights,Kyrgyzstan

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I sit in my tent tonight at the top of the pass (3910m) an exhausted wreck, but relieved and overjoyed that I have made it through one of the most mentally and physically challenging days of the trip so far.

I awoke from my fitful hungry rest since the night before still hungry. No longer able to stomach the pasta cooked, I crunched down on it raw, washing it down with the last of my Gatorade powdered drink mix. As I packed up my sleeping bag and organised my gear for the day, I was torn between going back the way I had come (it was downhill, after all) to get to somewhere with real food, or to push on to the top of the pass. The terrain over the last two days and slow pace had taken its toll on my phsyce and body. I have lost much weight – how much I don’t know. The diahorrea was still at its worst this morning. I cracked and the tears flowed for an instant when an unexpected movement ended up in my pants…

Right, that’s it. I’m going home. Home to New Zealand.

Don’t be so hasty, I told myself, and decided to decide once the tent was all packed up and the bike was loaded.

I stood there with the bike leaning against me, and looked back the way I had come. Two days to get back to where there were other humans around to help if things got tough. Stores where I could buy potatoes, cheese, and all the other things I craved. Out here, there is nothing. No one. I haven’t seen another person in two days.

Kerege-Tash Pass Valley in Kyrgyzstan looking east

I also looked ahead. The top of the pass seemed so close. The slope leveled off too – perhaps I could actually push the bike without hinderance of rocks and steep gullies. As much as I hated the pasta, I knew that I would not die of starvation for at least another four or five days.

I in no way decided there and then that I was going all the way to Naryn, but I did decided to do the same as I had done yesterday – detatch the lowrider panniers, leave the bike, and walk uphill for an hour to see how things would pan out. I decided that after an hour of walking with the front panniers, I would either give up and turn back, or drop the panniers and go back for the bike.

Walking up the pass with my panniers, I lost the track at least three times, and each time ended up walking over large streams of big boulders that would have been impossible to negotiate with the bike with its heavy rear panniers. However each time after crossing the boulders, I would notice the track heading down and away from the obstacles. I saw that the track was actually quite smooth and definitely negotiable if I had stuck to it.

Near Kerege-Tash Pass, Kyrgyzstan

Finally I walked up and over a small hill to see a massive high plateau stretch out in front of me. Then I saw it. An old tractor tyre. That was the sign that I was going to be able to make it. If they can get a tractor up here, then it is guranteed to be terrain that is at least half cycleable. Sure enough, ahead in the distance were two perfectly parallel tracks in the grass. After almost three days, I had found my ‘road’.

I dropped my panniers close to the track, and headed back down hill for the bike. Just as I arrived at the bike, a lone hearder on his horse trotted by, uninterested. Watching him as I pushed the bike, I saw where the track was supposed to go when crossing the numerous small streams. Two and a half hours later I reunited my bike with its panniers. From here I could actually ride the bike along the tractor tyre tracks.

The top of the pass was however much further than I had anticipated, and the further up the plateau I got, the boggier and wider the river crossings got. They were never deeper than knee height, with a river bed that consisted of rocks with mud in between, pushing the bike through them was tough going.

Kerege-Tash Pass, Kyrgyzstan

At last, after three and a half days of pushing, hauling, carrying and cursing the bike, I was now at the top of the pass. Due to the ferrying of lugguage and bike, I had effectively walked the track three times. Anyone wanting to know about the conditions, I can give you a detailed account, I assure you.

Kerege-Tash Pass, Kyrgyzstan

Dinner was again dry pasta, but this time washed down with a salty broth made from the soup mix I have. Add to this the compulsory three or four tablespoons of olive oil and it makes a perfectly palatable dinner. Not at all filling however.

Filtering the water for drinking - Kerege-Tash Pass, Kyrgyzstan

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September 13th, 2006 | categorizilation: all categories,highlights,Kyrgyzstan

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English Summary: Two hours of severe stomach cramps (lie on the ground and moan type) today set the scene for my most crazy bout of diahorrea so far. Unable to eat much for dinner tonight, I am now just passing water. Made the decision to take some diahorrea medicine kindly supplied by Cessna Drug Store in Beppu City, Japan in a hope to be able to at least retain the fluids I am putting in my body. I am sure I can see the top of the pass from where I am camping, so whether to push on tomorrow or return to Karakol is a decision I will need to make in the morning.

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Don't slip - Kerege-Tash Pass route, Kyrgyzstan

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September 12th, 2006 | categorizilation: all categories,highlights,Kyrgyzstan

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Distance / è·é›¢ï¼š maybe 10km?

Today’s distance is hard to judge since I pushed and carried the bike for maybe 2km…

Kabrybek not only supplied dinner, but also a yummy breakfast of bread, jam, cream and tea (all home made of course – except for the tea). The cream was interesting – very viscous, kind of like a syrup. It went very well with the jam made from small black currrents from around the house.

Kadrybek drew a basic map of where I needed to turn off the main road onto the ‘road’ that would take me across the Kerege-Tash pass to a road that connects to Eki-Naryn and then to the main town of the Narin Oblast – Naryn City.

According to the owner of the Karakol Hostel, this route is not only great for cyclists, but also has magnificent scenery. What a load of rubbish! I don’t know what he was thinking, but how could anyone want to take a fully loaded bicycle over this terrain?!

Tight squeeze - lucky I had walked the low panniers an hour ahead, Kerege-Tash Pass

Yeah the scenery is OK, but it is totally and utterly unridable. On a light, unloaded mountain bike, sure. But for me on my loaded bike, it is kind of like falling into some sort of cyclists’ hell. On one occassion, where the track was too steep and too rocky to push almost 50kg of bike and lugguage up it, I had to remove all the baggage from the bike, and ferry it and the bike over in three goes.

700m from the start of the Kerege-Tash Pass route, Kyrgyzstan

What a mission. Is this really going to take even two days to Naryn? As I sit in my tent after trying to eat some more tacky pasta (I threw it out half way through), I figure I may as well continue, since I’ve come a fair way, and Kadyrbek and Valentine (Yak Tours Hostel in Karakol) are adamant that many cyclists have done this route in the past. I should be in Naryn in a couple of days.

First night campspot on the Kerege-Tash Pass route, Kyrgyzstan

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September 11th, 2006 | categorizilation: all categories,Kyrgyzstan

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Distance / è·é›¢ï¼š 22km

English Summary:Today I was told that it would take two days and possibly lots of pushing my bike in order to get across the road that I was planning on taking. Oh well, even if it takes more than that, I’ve got plenty of food. How steep can it be anyway?

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Kadyrbek family

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Who is the shaggy one?

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September 10th, 2006 | categorizilation: all categories,Kyrgyzstan

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Distance / è·é›¢ï¼š 29.69km
Time / 時間: 2h 48m
Average speed / å¹³å‡é€Ÿåº¦ï¼š 10.6km/h
Distance to date / 今日ã¾ã§ã®ç©ç®—è·é›¢ï¼š 2187.6km

Still feeling the effects of a sleepless, nauseous night before, I decided to get something to eat for breakfast at the next town. I would have had instant noodles, but I now realise the cause of my diahorrea in China. Those noodles! There is something in the spices in the flavouring that just turn my innards into slime. I was feeling the effects of the noodles the night before this morning. In fact, those effects caused an unplanned dip in the lake to clean up…I’ll leave the details up to your imagination.

Lake Isik-Kol, Kyrgyzstan

So I left the campspot hungry but in good spirits, looking forward to the fresh bread that they would surely have at the next town (there was fresh bread in all the towns I had passed to get to the lake). Unfortunately that hope faded when the next town only had a store that sold pasta and biscuits. They did however have the great fruit tomatoes, so breakfast today was tomatoes and tasteless bicuits. They were sure to have an eatery or at least bread at Barskoon, the main-est looking town on the map enroute to the pass.

Lake Isik-Kol, Kyrgyzstan

The two tomatoes and three biscuits I had for ‘breakfast’ did not last long, and I was just going through the motions to get to Barskoon (which is actually off the main road, slighty up the hill). The monotony of the uphill and hunger was offset however by the friendly local kids who with astounding energy ran all the way through the town alongside me (I was going prtty slow).

To my dismay there was no cafe or bread to be found in the four stores that I tried, so I bought 2kg of tasty-looking pasta, two onions, and a red pepper with plans to make a simple pasta soup using the soup mix I still had from Kazakhstan.

Local kids in Barskoon

Once again it was slightly past 2pm when I stopped just out of Barskoon up the goldmine road for lunch. This lunch introduced me to the great disaster that is cheap Kyrgyzstan pasta (15 som per kg). Once boiled, it becomes a gloggy, tacky lump of flour that takes forever to go away in your mouth, and sticks to your teeth. The soup mix is jolly good though, and when you add about three or four tablespoons of olive oil to the mix, it is actually quite palatable.

This solid lunch including sugary Fanta powered me up the hill until around 4:30pm. There was still time to pedal, but the barometer was dropping, and some rather threatening clouds were coming over the mountains to the east towards me. Just after I had found a recently hay-harvested field (less chance I would be woken early in the morning by workers) and had put the tent up, the first drops of the down-pour started. A cookup of cream of tomoato soup, onions, paprika, olive oil and paprika waited until 6:30pm when the rain had stopped enough to cook outside the tent.

Up the Barskoon River valley, Kyrgyzstan

Once again the pasta was uninspiring. In fact, it was worse this time, as soft blobs of flour in a creamy soup just made the impression that the soup was lumpy, inducing the occassional retch when a ‘lump’ would get stuck halfway down my throat. This pasta really is a disaster. What are they thinking? Someone needs to take pasta making lessons. I guess you can’t expect much however when the pasta comes in sacks…

I left half the lumpy soup for breakfast tomorrow.

Do I suit the Kazakh sunglasses?

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September 9th, 2006 | categorizilation: all categories,Kyrgyzstan

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Distance / è·é›¢ï¼š 58.63km
Time / 時間: 3h 11m
Average speed / å¹³å‡é€Ÿåº¦ï¼š 18.4km/h
Distance to date / 今日ã¾ã§ã®ç©ç®—è·é›¢ï¼š 2157.9km

English Summary: Left Karakol against all logic according to how my body felt. I left late, after lunch, feeling already very tired. My ‘days off’ in Karakol and Bishkek were too busy with visas and getting to and from Bishkek. Managed to get to a beach on Lake Issy-Kul, but my body was not happy. Ate some Chinese instant noodles for tea and tried to sleep. But sleep evaded me.

Back yard of Yak Tours Hostel in Karakol, Kyrgyzstan / カラコル町ã®Yak Tours Hostelã¨ã„ã†ãƒ›ã‚¹ãƒ†ãƒ«(キルギス)

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September 8th, 2006 | categorizilation: all categories,Kyrgyzstan

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What can I say? Rugby played on horses where the ball is a goat carcass. The game is called ‘Buzkashi’. They are a hard bunch here in Kyrgyzstan!

Buzkashi - just like rugby except the ball is a goat carcass, and the players ride horses / ブズカシ - ラグビーã¿ãŸã„ãªã‚‚ã‚“ã ã‘ã©ã€ãƒœãƒ¼ãƒ«ã®ä»£ã‚ã‚Šã«ãƒ¤ã‚®ã®éºä½“ã§é¸æ‰‹ã¯é¦¬ã«ä¹—ã‚‹

Buzkashi - just like rugby except the ball is a goat carcass, and the players ride horses / ブズカシ - ラグビーã¿ãŸã„ãªã‚‚ã‚“ã ã‘ã©ã€ãƒœãƒ¼ãƒ«ã®ä»£ã‚ã‚Šã«ãƒ¤ã‚®ã®éºä½“ã§é¸æ‰‹ã¯é¦¬ã«ä¹—ã‚‹

Buzkashi - just like rugby except the ball is a goat carcass, and the players ride horses / ブズカシ - ラグビーã¿ãŸã„ãªã‚‚ã‚“ã ã‘ã©ã€ãƒœãƒ¼ãƒ«ã®ä»£ã‚ã‚Šã«ãƒ¤ã‚®ã®éºä½“ã§é¸æ‰‹ã¯é¦¬ã«ä¹—ã‚‹

Buzkashi - just like rugby except the ball is a goat carcass, and the players ride horses / ブズカシ - ラグビーã¿ãŸã„ãªã‚‚ã‚“ã ã‘ã©ã€ãƒœãƒ¼ãƒ«ã®ä»£ã‚ã‚Šã«ãƒ¤ã‚®ã®éºä½“ã§é¸æ‰‹ã¯é¦¬ã«ä¹—ã‚‹

Buzkashi - just like rugby except the ball is a goat carcass, and the players ride horses / ブズカシ - ラグビーã¿ãŸã„ãªã‚‚ã‚“ã ã‘ã©ã€ãƒœãƒ¼ãƒ«ã®ä»£ã‚ã‚Šã«ãƒ¤ã‚®ã®éºä½“ã§é¸æ‰‹ã¯é¦¬ã«ä¹—ã‚‹

The plan from here is to head towards Naryn in central Kyrgyzstan tomorrow. It is about 200km to Naryn, so hopefully I should be able to do a quick update there in about three or so days. If not, the update will be from Osh, Kyrgyzstan’s second largest city.

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September 6th, 2006 | categorizilation: all categories,Kyrgyzstan

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Generally feeling worn out after little sleep on the bus the night before and a busy day at the Tajikistan Embassy, I spent the day here in Bishkek sleeping at the hostel.

A cozy guesthouse in Bishkek / ビシュケックã®ãƒ›ã‚¹ãƒ†ãƒ«(キルギス)

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September 4th, 2006 | categorizilation: all categories,Kyrgyzstan

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English Summary: A bout of diahorrea half way through the night made for a rather uncomfortable bus ride to Bishkek. However this was made up for by the fact that I managed to get my Tajikistan visa in one day (for a fee of US$100). Decided to head for the high passes in Tajikistan sooner rather than later, so will be getting my Uzbek visa in Dushanbe (Tajikistan).

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