Sunday, August 29, 2010

Suger Sweetners Upset Stomach

Why?

Why is driving a dilapidated VW bus through the Balkans, Turkey, Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan?

to Russian Without a single word, let alone Turkish, Farsi, Serbian, Bulgarian, or any other language which is spoken in 11 countries en route from us ... Without a great deal to

unaware of motors ... have completed

without studying beforehand to ...

Without a great deal of money ...

Because dreams are like bubbles and eventually burst.

I would not be at the surf, a tear on my Cheek run and mourn for all the lost dreams on the road. I want to stand in the surf and run a tear of joy to let my cheek. Is ecstatic that I have the opportunity to live my dreams whenever they have given me has taken.

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journey with obstacles

At the next main road, we talk to a taxi driver. We'll act on 500sum (about $ 10) down for the ride to the airport. The price is slightly above the normal rate, but honestly, we for once do not care. We finally want to go home. Luggage in the trunk of the old Passat and thrown into the deep fall foul poster left. How nice it actually is to be driven in a taxi ... It will be stopped at a gas station and of course must be fueled only once. Of course, for our money is needed - in advance ... of course. We only have three 200 bills. Tank is full, back comes a fifties. Not again. Apparently thinks half of the people of Bukhara and Bishkek can draw us simply "line and thread on the table, just because we are tourists. We do get a bit more than the normal price paid and now we are also sold for $ 1 for stupid. ND did not find this funny. Starts to discuss. The taxi driver gets on. Just drive on. ND explodes and throws the 50sum bill forward. Whether he gets to the driver while still equal one? About are the ghosts. Fact is, the driver drives on unconcerned, until he discovers a really dark piece of road outside of Bishkek. He moves to the side. No person in sight. Gets out, opens the trunk (probably thinks the bags in the trunk must be really difficult), go around the car and opens the back door at ND and probably thinks we are now getting worried that we do not get to the airport. Only $ 50 oderso. - Mistake while I remain seated just freaks out completely from ND ...

The taxi driver gives us the remaining 50sum, the trunk again, and makes sits in the driver's seat and goes fast in silence to the airport. Once there, he says gratefully for the ride, we shook hands, and is visibly relieved when we disappear.

runs after two hours of sleep in the airport all other surprisingly easy, no problems because of my license plates in a backpack, accidentally checked in at the Business Class, why not get paid for being overweight. Fast nor with our rag-pickers in Almaty between aircraft landed and already we are in London. Another little joke at the security checkpoint. "What is in your back?", "A bomb." "That's not funny at all You could spend some time in prison for this joke." Well, that then has impressed us not to ... = ;-)

Only when we are landing at Berlin-Tegel, I realize that the journey is now really closes. ND and I get a little wistfully, no sunset in the desert, no more skewers in any Turkmen dives, no parties in Ashgabat, not to be traversed rivers, no trouble with the police, no Tajik beauties that invite one to tea, not Iranian Artists, no Kurdish anarchists, no crater lakes, no fleeing from Interpol Canadians, not people who wake up one morning just out of curiosity, not Khans and no spontaneous invitations to chat more. But forget all sorrow, all Wanderlust is when friends are present. And they were there.

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Furthermore, quick on the trail of spaghetti

After several requests, be it said here: Yes, we are doing well and yes I am back in Berlin, during the Noodledude has followed the footsteps spaghetti and now stranded in New York. This can all take a deep breath, read the blog can rely solely out of concern for us to pick up the phone again and talk to us personally.
We will continue here describe at least this trip even further and publish texts. This blog has become a kind of diary and we look forward to know when we are so on experiences can draw that we had almost been displaced.
There are certainly some very good photo updates (half of the film has just been developed), and certainly at least 15 texts to be published on this trip here. Our trip to Turkmenistan and the largest part of Uzbekistan, for example, we have not yet uploaded, just as texts about our time in Kyrgyzstan and the end of the stay in Iran ...
are missing a lot of experiences, such as: How do we ask in Turkmen gas fields to the way we try to persuade Iranian fishing with us to the Caspian Sea to drive and what the Basij, however, as we have breakfast still on a fishing boat, which Bukhara, Samarkand and Khiva is different from one another, what the night brings Asghabat with you and why you can then walk along not twice the same street, why behind every tunnel in Elbus Mountains, an ambulance, why in Tashkent only for 10 or equal to $ 50 a room gets as we overcome with more than 40 kilos of baggage, the border between Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan in the snow, why not the nightlife Bishkek is worth mentioning, as yak butter tastes good, why are we in Bishkek from the hotel thrown, was how I spent my birthday in addition to soldiers from Osh and Bishkek, as the Noodledude can live in London, the security controls to get to 180, we are pleased to have made this journey and of course we are happy to be back.
All that will be published here yet. But first of all we thank all who have followed the blog to here! We know that it was sometimes not possible to post comments. So many thanks to all who made it and also many thanks to all for which at least was the intention there. Of course a big thank you to all who supported us with many tips to the side and have thus often saves a lot of trouble.

Saturday, August 28, 2010

Hiv Abnormalities Show In Bloodwork

respect in Bishkek to Bishkek

After deep sleep, I wake in the morning after my birthday for three clock in the morning. Apparently was without me celebrated (as I reported, it was not possible to wake me) and the only one who still resides in the courtyard of the hostel is a Frenchman on the way from India to France. I will not let his plan of traveling with a minimum of CO2 emissions to explain ... No long-haul flights only with taxis, buses and trains. When asked what he does so in France - studies at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris. Appears to belong somehow to the French military. But a very good university. But then you walk sometimes in the big military parade on National Day. I wonder how that fits. In march with military parades, on a jet aircraft, the X-thunder tons of CO2 into the atmosphere and then as little CO2 as possible when traveling ... maybe it's the guilty conscience.

In the next few days we are dealing not with a great deal of the city, but try to forcibly return a cheap flight to Berlin to find. Internet, travel agency, Internet, travel agency, other travel agents, etc. We will of course be misguided and end up paying more than we would have had to. Despite all the uncertainties

seems Bishkek somehow more relaxed than many other places in Central Asia to be. We meet even more people who are friendly to us. The saleswoman at the travel agency finds it a pity that we do not have time to look at us Kyrgyzstan to give us in the house of her parents invited to the country. We reject with thanks. Otherwise, you can run around in the city well and even stroll in some parks a bit. The stress of recent weeks comes slowly up to us and we go out for dinner, table tennis on disks that are rented in the park (apparently a favorite leisure activity) and sleep out. in the city are always some traces of the Revolution just happened to see. The presidential palace is barricaded with tables and chairs, but piece by piece dismantled these witnesses before the change and everything will take its normal course. Istanbul side there are the first people to make music on the street and even a few young skaters at the monument of Lenin.

is also interesting to Independence Square, where several sellers hawking all sorts of junk and the facades of nearby houses were easy applause from factories to make nice around the place. Half Kyrgyzstan seems to want to photograph before the court. It's fun to watch this scene. People seem happy.

sort piece by piece, we made things and give them to other backpackers who can use them yet. Our Flight Ticket 20Kilo only allowed in checked baggage and 5 kg hand luggage. The flight on the morning of the 29th and we prepare ourselves to front on 28 to leave the hostel and then spend the next night at the airport. On the penultimate evening, a Friday, we go once again to celebrate properly and rattling piece by piece from Bishkek clubs. The first club, the Golden Bull, where to take a mix of Kyrgyz and foreigners. Unfortunately the club does not even from the outside just the impression that when there gather a crowd of party animals. Through the curtains gelugt - and in fact - not a man. Continue behind the loud music into the "Bacardi". The name seems no coincidence. Everywhere large advertising posters of the same rums are distributed. The mood seems good, only the big cars take aback at the door. As things turn out is the entry cost nearly 20 per € "but these are a couple of drinks with it". Already more than for the best clubs in Berlin to pay, we are not and we end up with after a taxi ride across the city in a Russian club live band. The music is good, the refreshing atmosphere and, unfortunately, not so we start due to lack of other options on the way home. -Without dancing have a rather depressing night We've been Ashgabat, probably for Iran on the club scene Bishkek happy - and now this was fortunate we pass to another club. Quickly paid the 300sum entrance and onto the dance floor. In poor electrical Mucke us is now becoming clear that we are the only men in the club. No matter. It is danced until we have had enough and somewhat satisfied to leave the club. It seems to be significant, whether for us or for the nightlife of Bishkek, which is the only club by dancing, we were able to at least a little half a brothel.

arrived back at the hostel of the toilet is quite common with the filthy floor washroom occupied. I have no second thought and just use the next cabin. From the Shower suits me a completely drunken Japanese guest.

The relationship between him and the bathroom opens up to me immediately, while the connection to me and ND will be clear until the next morning. We pack our things

good time to check out at 11am from the room. The rest of the day we want to spend dozing and blog writing in the courtyard of the hostel for us in the evening to make their way to the airport. This planning needs to be at once thrown to the winds, as the Japanese language Hostel owner discovered the filthy toilet on our walk. While ND yet tried on a factual level to explain to her that we are not involved have is for them the matter is clear, we were celebrating, had the key and came back drunk, ergo, we have ruined the toilet. We are in the presence of the real offender, who brings out a word to our defense and we do not denigrate the house also made.

Nevertheless, we can simply stand our luggage at the hostel. Slept is therefore on a park bench. Only the Noodledude and I further watching over his sleep, then I ... Unfortunately, ND had the meantime, go to the bathroom and I will abruptly pulled by an ox in uniform from sleep. He wants to see my passport, collect a penalty, or whatever. After a very bumpy from-the-Slchlaf torn-to-be I'm almost ready to give the men in uniform my passport. Fortunately, below a courageous woman a middle-aged and prevent this stupidity. Was thought to just have the police in Bishkek is straightforward, this picture was just destroyed. Where - Who says that the alarm was really a cop ...

As dusk of the evening, we want to go eat something and make our way into a restaurant with Kyrgyz cuisine, which was recommended to us. On the way we are then checked again by the police, the ND does not want more and to show up consistently refused our passports. He asks why and the police is not really why we to show them the passport unless they are holding police officers. Our eyes, drawn from one month Central Asia, for anything and not willing to show our passports, they move at the end of controls to adjust itself. meet unexpectedly

half the hostel is in the restaurant. Everyone seems very well informed about our being thrown out and we are immediately dubbed as the largest among the Central Asia unlucky travelers. As we begin self-deprecating about other uncomfortable situations for our trip report, in which we failed us is paid to community respect and although the food was not really good, we satisfied the hostel. There we get by without a word from the owner pulling our stuff and looking for a taxi.

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Print My Sprint Text Messages

Vorherbstlicher spring cleaning

The title speaks volumes - it's time to clean up their loved ones. Leafing through the entries last year (yes, it is a full Year ago ...) I realized that this blog has indeed started the way I imagined the mr, but remote hard lately from these beginnings.

why it is now - Pack the kids into the mini-van, we are emigrating! The luggage is also the hope that would express the very first entry to this address:
In the coming weeks, months, hopefully years these blank pages with all sorts of nonsense, reflections, quotes, Philosophereien, music, literary masterpieces and most likely again complete nonsense.

I look forward to many pre-readers, my vice-coated hopefully with regular audience, commentators, flatterer and critics!

MORJANNE.

And now clear: Get rid of the clutter, the move is a new beginning. Counter to zero, zero comments, posts to zero.

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sign of life

Hello to all!

We have noticed that several since our last entry a month ago, the worry about us. With this they were unsubstantiated and clearly said, we're still alive! We are doing well and we had an eventful time seltten and Internet access. Now we are sitting at it, this happened to recapitulate and Transcription. We hope to update you soon!

Regards,
ND

The first update is already there: "A night in jail in Bekarabad "

the second already, " GTA Tehran "

the third as " Of abbreviations and other uncertainties "

the fourth," Shiraz and Persepolis times just yet "

the fifth," Pannemir "

7," Get out of jail - way out of Uzbekistan - Rein ins .. "

8th" eyes with visa purchase! "

9th" Finally towards Pamir! "

10th" our best day in Tajikistan "

11th" Wrecktrek "

12th" Total fucked in Murgab "

13th" He goes then ... "

14th" Furthermore in the footsteps of spaghetti "

15th" Who said that it would be easy? "

16th" farewell to my bus "

17th" Furthermore '18
"on the trail of the quick spaghetti
Bishkek "


Enjoy

MP

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

No Period But Brownish Mucus Wiping



Bishkek is on the map about 800 km from the border. Until now, the card at the distance reliably at least ten percent less in the mountains far longer displayed. So 900km?, 1000km? We do not know. We had planned my birthday tomorrow in Bishkek to celebrate ... now it's just a matter of no man's land between Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan to come out. After well with the burning yak dung slept heated room next to the son of the family, we are on a bit more rested. The view from the door shows us a white mountains. It is hard to imagine that one has recently more than Haribo melted and completely sweaty sleep at about 30 degrees made thoughts. The snow can be slowly and as neither the family with whom we have been sleeping, can help us, seems to still use any car that road, I make myself without luggage, with only one filled with snow water bottle on the way to the Kyrgyz border post to to find a car that ND and the baggage can get from the mountain. The Noodledude now waiting on the next car that comes along and tries to get the luggage down to the valley. I run going with quick steps over the partially washed way down to the Kyrgyz border post. The landscape is beautiful and there is even a bit of joy to me when I think about how we got here. I look forward to the Pamir foot come down and laugh a little to myself when I realize how we have started two months ago with no plan in Berlin. How many things have happened, that we never expected.

After about an hour of running I hear a truck behind me. I turn around and wait in joyful Expectation that ND pops out and I can ride to the border post. The truck driver look at me aghast and drive easy. I am a little upset with ND What's he doing up there? Origami figures to build? Snowball fight? He should stop the next car. I can not imagine why he had not sat in this truck.

After an estimated two hours I'm out of the valley to another valley huge and the first snow in my bottle of water. The road is now reasonably repaired and run towards me two backpackers. The first man, except the truck driver and the Kyrgyz family I meet. As things turn out, two French, coming straight from China and I warn of the taxi drivers in Sary-Tash. They each carry about 15 kilos and want to camp in no man's land because her visa to Tajikistan until 25 begins. I wish them a nice border, warning them against one or the other thing in Tajikistan and align my regards to ND. We continue towards the border and out of date again me a truck without ND I do not anymore because ND has stopped anyone. The moment when I see the border post, and I can already estimated that only a few miles away from her, here comes the redemption. A truck with ND and the entire luggage. I squeeze into the cab and get immediately reported adventurous negotiations over the price of the few kilometers to the border. The first truck would actually have all our money. It was pretty outrageous claims, and only the third has embarked on a fairly reasonable price. Here we had so much forward to Kyrgyzstan. But again it is clear one is just a stupid tourist, especially if he is using to exclude simple. We consider whether we can somehow distance himself from the other tourists, so that does not go on like this. "We are working with the GTZ and only want to check out whether it is worthwhile here to start a project, or whether people just are not sufficiently helpful ..."

First of all, it is relatively easy by the Kyrgyz border post. A soldier loads his Kalschnikow directly behind me, which makes me wince briefly. Otherwise, no further incidents. The truck driver and offers us the next day to ride for our money last Tajikistan to Osh. We have had enough and want a warm shower. So we will be unloaded at the town square of Sary-Tash and listening to the warning of the French, I was negotiating immediately with a Tajik family that goes to Osh before. One is willing to take us for our last Tajik money and $ 10 to Osh. As car is a Golf III. The family consists of father, mother and two children. My backpack takes the Centre seat in the back seat full on. So we are six to four places. must be the way every now and then a stupid grimace for the children taken to stop them whining.

the evening after several passes and various problems with the car we will arrive in Osh. Even before the city every second house has burned. There is a military control on the city and of course we will immediately stop. We come from Germany. In Germany, but everything is so clean, why do we see from so dirty? This costs Tight! We have no desire to debate and put us right back into the car. But then has to pay the driver. Punishment because he has a crack in the windshield ...

We drive to the center of Osh and feel at once the depressed mood, which is above the city. The Uzbek hospital is in ruins. Kyrgyz flags waving everywhere. Actually, we've got all the time, particularly after the strains in Tajikistan to Osh and a warm shower, but here, where there are people that are soooo brave to set fire to a hospital, no one holds us. So, to where the taxis depart to Bishkek. We will, we immediately besieged by several drivers. The customers seem scarce. Since each transaction is totally unnecessary at least 10 people, has ND high $ 70 asking who takes us for this award to Bishkek. The price seems be high, because once we are placed in a taxi. When we invited our entire luggage in the car and sit there at once is $ 70 per person. We are not in the mood for jokes, which remembers the driver immediately and offered us an alternative to the price of $ 80, if another person ride takes you. From one person to two, and suddenly we sit fifth in the cushions of an old Mercedes been established. In general, it seems to be only in Kyrgyzstan German cars. Mercedes, VW and Audi are the dominant brands. Kyrgyzstan is probably the country with the highest percentage of German cars in the world. Before we leave, I will still presented the pregnant wife of the driver.

ND has a few beers to toast concern on my birthday, which the fat already drunken soldiers, of course, immediately noticeable ... It then goes through the night with two soldiers stinking of alcohol. Fortunately, sleep the one who sits with us in the back seat soon and we just have to endure the chatter of the other, can understand at all why we do not know the family members of Angela Merkel. One is tempted to say. "This is democracy, if one does not know the family of the President" To Twelve whispers ND the warmest congratulations in his ear, so that the fat soldier does not wake up. To sleep is not to really think and we are then in the morning in Bishkek. Or rather close to Bishkek. The driver stops at the bazaar, which is not really in the center and makes it clear that he is not willing to drive us on. ND helps him to puncture a tire change. When the driver then says what he wants for the tour to the center, he is ND Help for the tire change with the same sum. It is discussed consents to the driver. Probably because his second wife / girlfriend (next to the pregnant in Osh) has now been received and an even longer discussion Währe been very unpleasant. We land at Sakura Guest House. Much to my delight, there are no more beds in dormitory and we end up in the doubles. Short or a "sign of life " on the blog. And then my greatest birthday presents: a shower sleep warm and ...

Monday, August 23, 2010

Substitute Rapadura For

Who said that it would be easy? He then goes

After we slept one night in a VW bus, Now we want something on a hangover and start straight away that car with a large SUV to haul buyer. To the standard requirement of the towing of petrol money we give him just a 5 liter canister fuel. If he and the buyer out among themselves. After the bus was towed to a scrap yard next to other cars, we are slipped $ 1,300. Whether we want the rest in Tajik Somoni? We do not want! So is still fast on the black market changed. Impressive as a place where everyone wants to 500m towing petrol money for someone to be times $ 2,000 in cash at hand. An examination of the authenticity of the notes remains rather superficial. Especially since we have not even really do too often with dollars. Watermark? Yes there. Serial number? Here. Certificates are used. Good. Reassuring is the remoteness of Murgab. Our buyer has not at least had enough time to get fakes from a larger city. The notary needs

allegedly another hour until we can make the contract. Because a contract is passed. So we wait in the house of the buyer and wait and wait ... Total three hours until he comes back and says that it is not on this Sunday's. -Who would have thought. So we spend the day more or less in the courtyard of the buyer, sleeping, and our things herumgammelnd gripping. Always with the fear in the neck, the buyer still one of us so carefully hidden faults on the bus detects and would like to bargain down the price again. And as I sit and look around me, I jump immediately a lying around in the corner practicing hand grenade into the eye. When I asked if that was a grenade, the brother of the buyer responds with a shrug, yes, that was probably a grenade. Weapons seem, even if they could not get anywhere on the face, during the last civil war is still omnipresent, and to be nothing special.

The next morning we come to the notary. There is a purchase agreement formulated in Russian and we write the same again in German in order to assure us. After umpteen times some papers had to be copied has to have a stamp and everything seems perfect. Until the buyer would also have the characteristics and the registration document. I can log off without the car but not so easy in Germany. So long discussions ...

Until I say that I would end up with the car stolen in Germany must report. This one would then not. The buyer is satisfied with the international vehicle registration, which I do not need more anyway. His biggest claim was a document with a registered motor number. As in Germany, so what but not in the vehicle documents, I can not really help him.

After all, back and forth like the buyer before us eat smuggled across the border yet. We now go to the gums, just want to get away. Before a new problem opens up. So

eaten. Looking back this meal was very helpful ...

is from this moment on it without our reliable, sufficient, mobile shelter. In a Chinese taxi we drive the last mile of the Kyrgyz Border. Torn between the joy of finally getting away from Murghab and leave the mourning our companion through so many miles just before the goal, we cross at Pamir-pop several streams, ten-meter drive from the Chinese border fence and reach the border at late afternoon. Welcomes

we are the crack of gunfire. Apparently, the soldiers seem to have just boredom and sometimes shoot over a bit to Kyrgyzstan and China. The border is close to a 4300m high pass in the mountains. Keep it blows a cold wind from the north and the soldiers up into a kind of Arctic containers where you will be asked to stamp the passport inside. There we sit in a U-boat. While some soldiers lying in their bunk beds and dozing, the highest-ranking sitting on a chair between them and asks us to one of the beds to be seated. The Noodledude urged me repeatedly to take just any talk. Together is then smoked anyway. Apparently our car buyer with the border officials a deal. We are not asked for any customs documents, nor are our backpacks searched. A bit incredulous looks to us already, it makes clear that we each have more than 40 kilos of luggage and the LP to an already countless Bodies held together with duck tape tote bag from the bazaar in Istanbul leaves. Between the Tajik and Kyrgyz border post, located twenty kilometers, a passport and how someone once told some land mines. So we leave with the buyer Granzstation to give him up to that carried our security, the keys from the car and the international car registration and then it starts to snow. In freezing cold headwind, snow and poor visibility, it goes up the last meters to the pass. My 45 kilos of luggage, divided into three backpacks leave me every joint of my body feel alone. During the Noodledude fairly at the bazaar bag, a backpack and a Ökostoffbeutel towing, I'm progressing slowly but steadily, at least. Since ND slowly showing signs of altitude sickness, I always run in front of 200 feet, then come back and help him carry the. It 's almost a bit like being broken fitted to a climbing is one of the higher mountain peaks with Aldi bags. After about an hour we have passed the passport and a half hour later, we see a house in no man's land. 2.5 hours after we have crossed the border, we sit at a Kyrgyz family in the oven and get yak butter and other treats served. Only when heat slowly penetrates into the body, and the hunger is satisfied, comes a Feeling of warmth, satisfaction and wonder at. We did it, we are out of Tajikistan and land right in the snowy Pamir. Reminds me of Christmas. ND gets so happy to be out right origami paper and brings the son of the house to fold cranes for.

Sunday, August 22, 2010

Metal Core Wheels In The Usa

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The last video of my loyal companions for many years, 80.000, ups and downs, passes, deserts, snow and insane heat and at least 20 countries, he has never left me without warning in the lurch:

The last photo:

Perfect Circle Bump On Thumb

farewell to my bus

Over thousands of miles of reliable despite water loss companion!

Slovakia:

Hungary:


Budapest:



Serbia:
Sofia:
Bulgaria

Bosporus
Turkey:





Kurdistan:


Nusaybin:

burning truck in front of Bitlis:
About Tatvan:

Lake Van:
Iran:





Wüste Lut:












Kaspisches Meer:



Ashgabat:

Usbekistan:




Tajikistan:

Pamir: