21 Day The Five Stans Tour — TOUR CODE: CA3 21 Day The Five Stans Tour
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Ken Powell, a seasoned globe-trotter and experienced photographer (powellphotography.ca), blogs (powellponderings.com) about his journey with Adventures Abroad’s 21 Day Five Stans Tour, which covers Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan. His insights, images, and expertise offer a wonderful glimpse into this extraordinary tour.
If you want something sometimes you have to do a little work for it. Iskanderkul Lake, Tajikistan and Issyk-Kul Lake, Kyrgyzstan are bodies of water high above sea level but each offers its own experiences!
Journey Around the 5 Stans: Turkmenistan is Really Bizarre
21 Day The Five Stans Tour — TOUR CODE: CA3 21 Day The Five Stans Tour
TOUR CODE: CA3
Ken Powell a seasoned globe-trotter and experienced photographer (powellphotography.ca), blogs (powellponderings.com) about his journey with Adventures Abroad’s 21 Day Five Stans Tour, which covers Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan. His insights, images, and expertise offer a wonderful glimpse into this extraordinary tour.
Travel is a sense of wonder to see the world around us and appreciate what is beyond our borders. Our Turkmenistan stop was an eye-opening experience that allowed a glimpse into the mind of an idiosyncratic leader of the once closed-off country. The following is a memorable experience that will leave you in wonder and awe at the same time.
Journey Around the 5 Stans: A Ball. A Goat (Kind Of)!
21 Day The Five Stans Tour — TOUR CODE: CA3 21 Day The Five Stans Tour
TOUR CODE: CA3
Ken Powell a seasoned globe-trotter and experienced photographer (powellphotography.ca), blogs (powellponderings.com) about his journey with Adventures Abroad’s 21 Day Five Stans Tour, which covers Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan. His insights, images, and expertise offer a wonderful glimpse into this extraordinary tour.
Two separate stories from the sporting world while travelling on the Five Stans tour. From a sport that you will instantly recognize to one that you will not believe that it is a sport.
Journey Around the 5 Stans: Crossing the Line
21 Day The Five Stans Tour — TOUR CODE: CA3 21 Day The Five Stans Tour
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Ken Powell a seasoned globe-trotter and experienced photographer (powellphotography.ca), blogs (powellponderings.com) about his journey with Adventures Abroad’s 21 Day Five Stans Tour, which covers Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan. His insights, images, and expertise offer a wonderful glimpse into this extraordinary tour. In this vignette, he recounts a border crossing episode.
We had borders of five Stans to navigate, and one of them twice. While they all had their idiosyncrasies, there was one that we knew would be a challenge – the Uzbekistan into Turkmenistan crossing.
Journey Around the 5 Stans: The Silk Road
21 Day The Five Stans Tour — TOUR CODE: CA3 21 Day The Five Stans Tour
TOUR CODE: CA3
Ken Powell a seasoned globe-trotter and experienced photographer (powellphotography.ca), blogs (powellponderings.com) about his journey with Adventures Abroad’s 21 Day Five Stans Tour, which covers Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan. His insights, images, and expertise offer a wonderful glimpse into this extraordinary tour.
The well-known travel writer Colin Thubron said it well: “To follow the Silk Road is to follow a ghost. It flows through the heart of Asia, but it has officially vanished, leaving behind it the pattern of its restlessness.”
One can’t talk about the “Five Stans” without reference to the Silk Road. Scorching deserts, high mountain passes and caravan towns defined the route (or as it was then, routes) transporting silk and various other goods from western China to eastern Europe from as early as the second century BC until the mid-15th century when the Ottoman Empire closed off trade with the West. Nearly 6,500 kilometres long, it connected the Eastern and Western worlds.
Journey Around the 5 Stans: The Setting
21 Day The Five Stans Tour — TOUR CODE: CA3 21 Day The Five Stans Tour
TOUR CODE: CA3
Ken Powell, a seasoned globe-trotter and experienced photographer (powellphotography.ca), blogs (powellponderings.com) about his journey with Adventures Abroad’s 21 Day Five Stans Tour, which covers Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan. His insights, images, and expertise offer a wonderful glimpse into this extraordinary tour.
A brief synopsis of the physical and cultural landscapes of these regions will help give you a deeper appreciation of the diversity and history I will encounter on this tour. And the blog entries that follow will be instead of a day-by-day diary account of the delights and challenges of exploring the five Central Asian "Stans", I have chosen a number of memorable vignettes and experiences to tell the story another way. So let's start!
