Monthly Archives: till 30 June 2024

By DJ and Danny Had the Landrover sprayed this morning, windows cleaned, bling bling!   Dirk and Danny are doing stretching exercises while having coffee, they look like ostriches!  Along the way we are offered some kind of oliebollen by boys … Continue reading →

By DJ and Danny Today is Dirk and Trudy’s wedding anniversary: ​​52 years, so that’s worth celebrating!  To mark this occasion, we are taking a nice ride there today 😀  On the way we buy a delicious ice cream and … Continue reading →

By DJ and Danny After about 30km we drive past a ‘healing hot spring’ and we take a dip in the bath.  According to the plaque on the wall, it is good for everything, at least it is nice and … Continue reading →

By DJ and Danny 8:30 oil level and go with that banana!  The roads are quiet and beautiful, we try to buy bread along the way, but they don’t have it anywhere.   During a lunch stop, Trudy hands out melon … Continue reading →

By DJ and Danny We wake up at 5:30 and mess around with the beautiful view.   The lady of the house gives us a refreshing shower with the watering can..  We take a picture with the family and go with … Continue reading →

By DJ and Danny This morning a fancy breakfast at the Borat hotel, cleaning the windows of the Landrover and go!  Into the mountains.  We go higher and higher up to 4200 meters and not just a peak but for … Continue reading →

By DJ and Danny On to Korog, nice breakfast behind the Landrover, 9.10 drive…    Bam, traffic jam; the Chinese are ‘constructing’ the road here and are placing dynamite in the rocks, they then blow it up at night and the … Continue reading →

By DJ and Danny We had a nice breakfast  Slept well last night, we continue driving along the beautiful asphalt road along the river, on the other side is Afghanistan, quite a strange idea, many military patrols and ‘fox holes’   … Continue reading →

By DJ and Danny The plans have changed, To spare the T-Ford and to give Dirk his rest so that he is fit again for the rest of the trip, we decided not to take the T-Ford into the Pamir. … Continue reading →

By DJ and Danny  Arrived at the Hotel last night at 3.30, After a ‘detour’ by taxi so that he can justify his fare of 190 Sumoni (19 Euro).. Today we arrange the GBOA Permits so that we can drive … Continue reading →