tsiklonaut
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Crossing over the Caspian Sea.
Caspian.
Pentode
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Thank you so much, Margus, for continuing to update this thread.
Your travelogue and, especially, your photographs are simply amazing.
Your travelogue and, especially, your photographs are simply amazing.
tsiklonaut
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Our wake as the night falls... We went to sleep on deck since it was an old rusting barely floating ship with toilets not working and no AC inside, meaning it's unbearable
to be inside cabins in the Caspian humid heat. We took out our sleeping bags and went to sleep on the deck under the Asian starry sky.
The davits squeaked all night and we were bitten by mosquitoes a lot. But as a payoff the sunrise light play was nice, another day on the Caspian Sea.
tsiklonaut
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Cheers! Will update as I go with the time is provided.
tsiklonaut
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In Kazakhstan soon we enjoyed our first Steppe - pure joy! (with lots of big spiders around keeping us well guarded)
Once the Sun set, the magic started - we got to experience our Billion Star Hotel that no existing hotel in the world can compete with. Extra security with big spiders roaming into tent.
tsiklonaut
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Kazakhstan's landscapes can be empty, but at times they are very decent.
So are the roads (to keep the tourist hords away). You need to cover lots of distance though... Kazakhstan is vast!
robert blu
quiet photographer
Great photos from a great experience. My wife was very impressed by the light, the stars and the space. But when I translated for her about the spiders ...ohhh...she was shocked!
Thanks Margus for letting us travel with you through your photos!
robert
Thanks Margus for letting us travel with you through your photos!
robert
Red Rock Bill
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My copy of From Estonia With Love arrived...a nice addition to my book shelf...enjoying the photos of your new adventure
regards,
Bill....
regards,
Bill....
tsiklonaut
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A warm beer is better than no beer - welcome to Uzbekistan!
Hissar mountains South Uzbekistan. Check the cattle track patterns, an art in itself!
tsiklonaut
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Hissar sunset from our tent. It was bloody hot since the heated ground of the semi-desert worked like
a radiator all night beneath you, but a great wild camp none the less!
Hearding is the most common income in the South Uzbekistan. Your lungs are filled constantly with a cow dung dust,
but ironically it smells like earth itself - for locals, life is harsh here!
tsiklonaut
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Thank you Robert! It's never too late to take the wife out on an adventure, spiders or not
Bill, so glad you like the book! Makes all that hard work worth doing.
tsiklonaut
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The architacture gets grand once you hit those big ticket sports of the Silk Road in Uzbekistan.
The shapes and angles amazed us, 1000 years old and still looks like new.
tsiklonaut
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Timur and other Silk Road era leaders liked things big and grandiose!
Ark in Buchara. Umbrellas can be divine too.
valdas
Veteran
Margus, I enjoyed very much From Estonia with Love - great photos an very well written as well (I think by your wife?). And those photos now are even more captivating. Thanks for sharing.
Prest_400
Multiformat
Very late to comment in this thread although I have been following and lurking.
Again, really admirable expedition in which you excel in showing your travels, both in writing and photography. That and your philosophy on the road.
Again, really admirable expedition in which you excel in showing your travels, both in writing and photography. That and your philosophy on the road.
tsiklonaut
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Thank you Valdas, it's an overwhelmingly good to hear so many of you like the book!
The text is mostly done by my wife Kariina, some (mostly more technical) text and all photos by me. It's a teamwork book.
Take care,
Margus
tsiklonaut
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Cheers, Jordi!
tsiklonaut
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Everyday streetlife under unfinished minaret that was planned to be the tallest in the empire.
Proves still the same applies today, you got to be careful what you wish for!
They get bigger as you go further south.
tsiklonaut
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Clear Persian influences in architecture, it's no wonder since the brutal Timur and other rulers brought many of their artists and builders in from Persia.
Fine art ceiling. Lots of detail and attention to it (click to enlarge and click again to see 100% view if you don't believe it).
tsiklonaut
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Old city walls in Buchara.
Madrasa.