Walking the Wakhan Valley

 

We round a bend on the bumpy road, and I am immediately spellbound. I want to ask the driver to stop the car so I can fall to my knees and bow in honor the beauty before me. My jaw keeps slipping towards my chest with each rock we roll over. My eyes tear up.

“My god. It’s beautiful.” I whisper over the lump in my throat. I can’t make my mouth spit out the words, “Stop, please, stop. We must see this greatness at a standstill.”

I have never before truly understood what compels climbers to summit the world’s biggest mountains, but now I catch a glimmer into their psyche. Staring at the Hindu Kush from the road snaking through Tajikistan’s southern corner, all I want to do is touch these faraway jagged, snowy peaks. Touching them with my eyes is not enough. I want to touch them with my soul.

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Anem a Tadjikistan

 

Un cop visitat un xic de Kirgizistan i obtinguts els visats de Tadjikistan i Uzbekistan, ara deixem Kirgizistan per endinsar-nos a Tadjikistan.

Aquesta breu entrada i ara que durant les properes setmanes ens endinsarem per Tadjikistan i Uzbekistan, és per ’informar’ que no tenim ni idea de quina serà la connectivitat, accés a internet, a electricitat per carregar el mòbil… de que disposarem, pel que consegüentment, no tenim ni idea de si podrem mantenir la freqüència de publicacions a la web i a les xarxes socials.

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Heading To Tajikistan

Having spent a few weeks enjoying off-route parts of  Burma and Kyrgyzstan and getting our visas and logistics sorted,  it’s time to start walking again… And, man, do we have  itchy feet! We are definitely getting antsy to begin our “whatever comes next” phase in Central Asia. Rest is a good thing, but restlessness is an impatient beastie.

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Myawaddy-Bangkok-Bixkek

 

Tal i com comentem en les nostres dues entrades, la continuïtat de la ruta o Bangkok.Bagan.Bishkek?!? aquests dies hem deixat el sud-est asiàtic per saltar al cor de l’Àsia central.

Acabades Tailàndia i Birmània hem tornat a Bangkok per volar fins a Bixkek, la capital de Kirgizistan on a part de visitar i conèixer un xic més aquesta part del món totalment desconeguda per nosaltres, ens hem atansat aquí per obtenir els visats dels següents 2 estats/països que tenim a la nostra ruta. Tadjikistan i Uzbekistan.

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Birmània-Recorregut detallat/Detailed route-2

 

Birmània – Recorregut detallat 2

Burma – Detailed route 2

A peu / On foot: Pyinmana, Wetkon, Pauktaw, Ayemyintthayar, Kyanboso, Chaungzauk, Ywathit, Aungban, Zegon, Kyidaunggan, Hlebyingwe, Thaikchaung, Nanaw, Tegon, Tatkon, Yamethin, Pyawbwe, Kandaung, Meiktila, Chaungna, Let Pan Eint-East, Zayetkon, Let Pan Pya, Bin Tel, Indaw Jel, Indaw, Kyauk Padaung, Nyaung-U, Old Bagan, New Bagan.

Aprox 330 km

No a peu / Not on foot: Myawaddy, Bago, Pyinmana

No a peu / Not on foot: Pakokku, Myingyan, Myotha, Mandalay, Bago, Mawlamyine, Moattama, Mahamyine, Myawaddy.