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

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

Jo masters the wheelhouse

Not a great start to the day - our first puncture

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

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

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

Cropses everywhere

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

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

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

And the culprits? - getting water across the drt efficiently

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

Jo contemplates a dip - so do the catfish below

Good old Russkie farmware

What have we done?

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

Water, water everywhere - off across the desert to disappear

Motorcycle Photo Gallery

In the Beginning

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