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27 October 2017
Breakfast at the hotel’s buffet was pretty good but not as good as the Kazzhol. There were many Indian guests. I needed to convert my remaining Kyrgyz som into Kazakh tenge as a priority so I could work out the money situation before flying out tomorrow. I found a money changer nearby whose rate wasn’t […]
26 October 2017
Today I make my journey from Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan back to Almaty, Kazakhstan. The guide suggests it is a 4h journey but it turned out to be a little hellish. With the late sunrise, I woke at 0700 and had breakfast around 0800 before heading to the station at 0900. With a short stop to check […]
20 October 2017
Above: View flying from Dushanbe to Almaty. The view was absolutely was gorgeous. It didn’t look any different from flying over the Southern Alps in the South Island of New Zealand but the difference here is the scale: it’s the expanse and reach. The expanse is such that these mountains were in sight the entire […]
3 October 2017
I woke before the alarm which I had set for 0530 and was out by 0600. The A21 bus to the airport came along swiftly and I got to Hong Kong International Airport around 0700 disembarking at Terminal 1. I had tried doing a mobile check-in but realised that I could select and reselect my […]