Photo gallery – Silk Riders

By Gareth Morgan on July 20, 2005 in Photo Gallery

In the footsteps of Marco Polo, our Silk Riders trip from Venice to Beijing … in photos!

Browse through the galleries below.

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Aral Sea

Dave sends an SOS - but nobody answered at the NZ Coastguard

Water, water everywhere - off across the desert to disappear

The Amu-Darya before it is raped and pillaged on its fateful journey toward the Aral

What have we done?

Good old Russkie farmware

Jo contemplates a dip - so do the catfish below

But far too often - using unlined canals - wastage through seepage as well as evaporation

And the culprits? - getting water across the drt efficiently

Oh Metzler - if only these ships had wheels they could escape

The appears to be little life in the desert but that's deceing. Stand still long enough and you see it all right

Hot day at the Aral - where's the shade?

Cropses everywhere

First glimpse of the graveyard of the 'once were seafaring'

To the Aral and there's water ?? A pathetic attempt at restarting a lake to tey and reverse the ecological disaster

Lots of desert before we get there - the last vestiges of aan 800 km trip across the Karakum

Not a great start to the day - our first puncture

Jo masters the wheelhouse

Motorcycle Photo Gallery

In the Beginning

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