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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Turkey's Black Sea Coast

I'd shine your boots but only if you step back a few paces, your socks stink Brendan

Jo breaks down conventions by being an 'honorary man' and the smoking den

In the space of 2,000 kms and a week we have moved from the late winter landscape of the Balkans to the full spr&#3

Now hang on. Who this stealing away with Dave's Dakar, while he's left astride a Mu

Yes please, my 5 brothers would like some barbequed carcass parts and yes we will eat them next to the hang

Oh Captain, texting home gain. Your Imate is getting punished cont&#30

Okay, okay long texts to require one to sit down

So tell me boys, what have you done with all the women?

A crowd gathers where-ever we stop - this one appointed its own guards while we went and had

Phil & Jo being serenaded at the local men's smoking den

Hey Dave how come you're not this popular back in Tauranga

All along the Black Sea Coast they build boat harbours like this. No need to find a natural

Transit NZ take note. Want a coast road from Paremata to Paraparamu? No probs, the Turks are building

Little boxes made of ticky tacky - this is how they house people - everywhere. No K&#305

Blow boy, blow that horn

So it,s goodbye to Black Sea Coast after a 4 day traverse.

Some of the hotels are functional rather than stylish

The Minarets started appearing from Serbia on, but in Turkey the mosques are ubiqu

Dave finally found his namesake sign

The local butchers with a van backed up offloading additional sheep

Also in a gents smoking den, pushing the limits of acceptability

The country of mosques - here' Istanbul's Blue Mosque

In even the smallest towns the local mosque can be quite elaborate

A roling stone gathers no mosque

Dave tries an alternative steed - and succeeds in stuffing the gearbox

Out of season so just leave the toys on the neach

Houses half completed everywhere. Big fat mortgages don't happen, folk finance it as they go

Wooden houses from the Ottoman Era

The coastline is one of hills and coves- very like the road from Greymouth to Westp

In a gents smoking den, so why are these wusses not lighting up

Who the hell are these 3 martians

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