Drag around this VR panorama of the Aral Sea @ Muynaq. I will create a higher rez version when I get home, but for now I’m rationing bandwidth, posting this via satellite from our camp ground in the middle of nowhere Kazakhstan
2 commentsA new batch of photos just posted to Flickr! http://www.flickr.com/photos/autarken And a quick video clip from the Aral Sea!
no commentThat “lamb shish” that I “just finished” in my last post? It was a vile poisoned thing! Either they rushed it out or the whole kitchen was filthy, because that was the 2nd worst food poisoning incident I’ve had yet. After finishing that post I…
2 commentsWaking up early and leaving our desert camp ground at Darvaza, we made for the Uzbek border, filling our fuel tanks both internal and external to full, including some extra 5 liter water bottles, as we’d heard about a gas shortage in Uzbekistan. We made…
1 commentWe are in the middle of the desert in Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan, hunting for the ghost ships of the Aral Sea near Muynaq. For the first time some locals just gave us some bad directions and we took a wrong turn into the desert. So far…
2 commentsI’m not sure if it is me or the news, but as we move closer to launch day, the political, environmental and economic issues surrounding the areas we’ll visit are becoming more prevalent to me. The reality of this being much, much more than just…
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