02. August 2018 Yesterday evening was maybe a bit longer than anticipated, so I set off from Kiev rather late in the morning. Somehow though the Maxi suddenly wasn’t running properly, I ended up checking the ignition 3 times that day, even the airfilter, but I couldn’t really find any issues. Thanks to that I […]
From Russia to Ukraine 27. July 2018 Drove through Voronezh, where I changed timezone again. The Day was almost uneventful except for the fact that my Mopeds Silencer now hat enough and decided to come apart. Well I am now riding with hearing protection. 28. July 2018 While the Main Road would bring me to […]
I dreaded that day… 22.July 2018 Got up at 7 and even though it looked like rain I reached Oralsk without getting wet. There I met with the couple from yesterday and got invited to sleep in their apartment. Later that day, we went to the Ural river to have a BBQ and do […]
Time to Improvise 18. July 2018 Left early again and it was a completely unspectacular day with great roads until my ignition started making trouble and it began to rain. I spent two hours waiting in a Busstop for the rain do die down, but eventually continued with slight rainfall. 40km before Aktobe the […]
The endless Steppe 13. July 2018 SUCCESS!! I had no Problems with the Pizza nor enything else since I went to the hospital. To celebrate I left the hostel at 9:30 towards Turkestan. The road was perfect I did a lot of stops for drinking and reached Turkestan in the early afternoon. There I […]
A Story about Sickness Honestly if you can’t deal with explanations of Sickness and it’s symptoms, please don’t read this part. 07.July 2018 Around 9am I left my Hostel in Bishkek still with a light diarrhea, but I had no problem riding all the way to the Kazakh Border, however it had become really […]
Maxi I’m coming for you! 02. July 2018 Said Goodbye to all the nice people in the Hostel and left around 10:30, it’s getting really hot now. Had a break from the sun at a Busstation, when a local came up and started talking to me, ended up being a 20min conversation held completely through […]
Back in Kirgistan 29 June 2018 Had Breakfast with my crazy american friend and then we split up again, even though we were going in the same direction. The Ride was very smooth until I reached the famous AK-Baital Pass, which is the highest motorable Pass on the Pamir Highway and pretty far up […]
The Wakhan Valley 25. June 2019 Taking a brake from riding today in Khorog, slept like a baby after the demanding ride through the Bartang valley. The day was mostly spent talking with other travellers at the Pamir Lodge, editing photos and trying to access the internet. In the Evening I went to the only […]
Bartang Valley on a Moped Before we get into the regular daily happenings, let me introduce the bartang valley to you a bit. You can cross Tajikistans Pamir Mountains through several ways, the shortest and most challenging is the Bartang valley. 300km of poorly maintained Gravelroads, sparsely populated but nevertheless the humans living there managed […]