How (NOT) to travel Central Asia 🇰🇬🇹🇯
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- čas přidán 26. 06. 2024
- Our adventure starts before dawn with an escape from the irradiated Soviet mining town of Min-Kush. Leaving the roentgens behind, we soon find ourselves back in the Kyrgyz heartlands and ahead of us lies a long and winding road to be travelled with the kindness of the Kyrgyz people, a sacred mountain and a brush with fate. Join me on a perilous quest across Central Asia.
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00:00 Escape from irradiated Min-Kush
02:18 Ramshackle ride
06:30 Anguish
07:59 Kumis junction
10:07 The road to Osh
12:36 A holy mountain
14:06 An accident
17:01 Closing reflections
awesome adventure. thanks for brining us along.
My pleasure. Glad you enjoyed it :)
i really appreciate your videos of adventures in central Asia, especially walking on the rugged roads alone, which is one of my dream to wander around Central Asia like you did. You are living in my dream, my friend. Congraculatins
Thanks :)I'm glad you like them. This one was dreams and nightmares in equal measure...
Man that is mad as fuck brother, I hope that you that you have more luck and safer travels in the next leg of your journey. Love the videos, amazing stories, people and scenery. Hope you're well, and continuing to be well.
Thanks for the kind words :) Glad you're enjoying the content. Fortunately, I can report that the rest of the trip along through the Pamirs was less calamitous. On which, more videos soon.
god bless you brother
My hats off to you Joseph! I'm glad to see and hear you lived through this trip. Thank you for the update and videos! I've just subscribed recently from the USA.
Thanks, Wayne :) Scraped through this time luckily. Onto the next one.
Glad you're ok after that nightmare. I was going to subscribe and then I realised I already had, you deserve to have way more than the current 4K - really good vids.
Thanks, Dave, I really appreciate it :) As for the subs, you're just early - the others are on their way...
oh my god what an episode
stay safe out there big dog. terrific videos. what a dream to explore like you do!
I'm so sorry to hear about the accident, scary stuff! Glad you and everyone else was okay!
Looking forward to hearing more from you, hope the rides go a bit smoother this time!
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Good that nothing severe happened.
I think the bigger problem is the driving, not the roads.
You're right, of course. The driving is garbage and certainly the most dangerous part of making these videos.
Doing my part to not end up in a river in tajikistan. Good content and keep it up
You'll thank me later :)
Lubie Twoje filmy, odbywasz ciekawe podróże.
Jestem pod wrażeniem Twojej znajomości języka rosyjskiego, cieszę się że wyszedłeś bez szwanku z wypadku.
Pozdrawiam z Polski 🤝
Whatever doesn't kill you, makes for a great story later. Thank goodness no one got seriously hurt. Plenty of silver linings on this adventure though, like the view from Sulaiman-Too.
Indeed. There's plenty of accidents on that road and some aren't so lucky. Onward.
Having also flipped a car in the last two years (avoiding t-boning someone after misreading a traffic light perfectly framed in the setting sun), I hope the experience does not put you off all your travels. Happy that your injuries were also not severe, or anyone's, and that the travel is still ongoing.
That sounds like a scary one. It's definitely not an experience worth repeating. It did put me off a bit, but I continued the trip anyway into the Pamirs, of which there will videos very soon. Thanks for the support.
i'm glad you're okay bro, great video!
Yeah, me too. Glad you enjoyed it :)
Amazing video keep up the work, hope you are alright from that crash I was recently filim in Russia and Philipines had a bit of a sketchy moment in the slums of Tondo Manila.
Thanks man, I appreciate it :) These things happens from time to time. Occupational hazard, I suppose...
Oh My F###### Goodness! what a rollercoaster ride this episode turned out to be!
A standing room only, vomit inducing ride out of irradiated Min-Kush .▼. Jumping into the back of a Bishkek bound, open top truck trailer .▲. Almost head stomping 1 of 4 hidden fellow passengers .▼. Epic vistas of the Suusamyr valley along the route .▲▲. A close call with Hypothermia due to the wind, rain and cold .▼▼▼. Catching a ride all the way to Osh from the Kumis junction .▲▲. Ticketed Speeding driver, puking babushka .▼. Safe arrival in Osh, and a well earned 48 hour rest .▲▲▲. A visit to Sulaiman-Too Sacred mountain, where plans to travel the mighty Pamir highway are told .▲▲▲. bloodied face, picture fades to black .▼▼▼. A harrowing account of plunging off a mountain road to river below .▼▼▼▼▼. Every passenger escaping the Opel Zafira .▲▲▲▲▲▲▲. Whisked off to Dushanbe, bloodied and bruised, a fake pair of Raybans the only casualty .▲▲▲. Shaken but unperturbed sign-off, not wishing to disappoint .▲▲▲▲.
Thank you once again for taking us along the road less travelled. Sooooo glad nobody was seriously hurt! I hope your adventure down the M41 is much much much much much safer. Safety always comes first, content later. Onwards!
That's quite a synopsis! Roughly mirrors my enjoyment of the whole thing too, although that truck ride with the rain was unreasonably bad.
Glad to get out of it largely unscathed. There's plenty of accidents on that road, and many are not so lucky. I am happy to say that the rest of the trip on the M41 was without injury, although it did involve a close call of a different kind... Thanks for the support and kind words once again :)
First comment, Finally, This was yet another very interesting video, I hope the crash didn't scare you off from stepping into other people's cars, Also i wanted to ask, How is it you can go on these trips? How do you pay for all of this? And how much does it cost you, I am wondering because its been my life long dream to do the exact same thing once i got the money, I'm just 18 but i would love to start asap with travelling the world and recording all of it.
Thanks for the support man :) It did put me off a bit, but I continued the trip anyway, of which there will be more videos very soon. I work online, so it's a bit easier for me to do these trips, but I meet plenty of people on the road who are just on holiday from conventional jobs. Central Asia is in general very affordable, especially if you opt to travel in the back of a rickety truck lol. You could do a good month-long trip for well under $1k, if you tried to do it cheaply. The website Caravanistan is an essential reference for planning any kind of trip in Central Asia.
How were we to know that stepping on sleeping locals head was against their local customs and considered rude. Next time I hitch a ride through Min Kush, I'll know not to do that. Thanks :D
😂 These tricky cultural nuances...