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.

Silk Riders »
The Karakum Desert

Hey Phil do you want the top or bottom bunk?

Yurts are how the real Nomads do it

Dissued Urals litter the side of the road

More at home here than us

The animal's quarters aren't much worse than those of their masters

A big event - visiting a desert encampment

Aren't kids just the best?

Then the wind comes and we take a sandblasting

Saltpans where the rivers used to flow across here to the Caspian

Salt baked ridges not the great for the bikes

Interspersed with sun-baked mud flats

Here we go - Fairydown City under construction, rain clouds gathering

A fire to warm the cockles

Dave working out his sleeping bag will Jo sorts her sleeping quarters

A Nomad encapment

Sunrise - get up you lazy buggers

Hey Bryan remember that game, pattercake, pattercake ...

One of the Staintune Boys - nosy and loving it

A truck too far

Hopscotch with the local kids

Sunsets to die for

AT Konye Urgench - Islamic Mausoleum built in the 11th century, spared by Genghis Khan

Tallest Minaret in Central asia and built in the 11th century

Motorcycle Photo Gallery

In the Beginning

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