Silk Road Bike Trip, 1994
We did a bike trip from near Bishkek, Kyrgyztan to Gilgit, Pakistan via Kashgar, China in the summer of 1994. To get to Bishkek, we flew to Moscow, then to Samarkand in Uzbekistan. Traveling to Moscow after the fall of the Soviet Union was surreal... but seeing the sights of Samarkand was remarkable. This was even before we started the bike trip! After an all-night bus trip from Samarkand to Bishkek, we were ready to start our ride south through the mountains of Central Asia. We crossed the Turagart Pass into China and down into Kashgar, a very remote place at the time. After a day at the Kashgar Sunday Market, we proceeded to climb up the Karakorum Highway into Pakistan and down to Gilgit. From there we took a bus down the Indus River valley to Islamabad and flew home. It was an amazing trip at a time when travel in this part of the world was difficult.
- The Kremlin, Moscow
- St. Basil's Cathedral, Moscow
- Registan Square, Samarkand, Uzbekistan
- Burana Tower near Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
- Peggy on Kegeti Pass, Kyrgyzstan
- Kyrgyz Boys
- W. Karakol Valley, Kyrgyzstan
- Kara-Keche Valley, Kyrgyzstan
- Kyrgyz Herdman
- Camp near Song-Kol Lake, Kyrgyzstan
- Kyrgyz family at Yurt
- Kyrgyz Herders
- Dolon Pass, Kyrgyzstan
- Us at Base of Dolon Pass
- Waiting for the Polaroids
- Kyrgyz Family Collecting Herbal Teas
- Tash Rabat, Caravanserai
- Tien Shen Mountains, Kyrgyzstan
- Elder Kyrgyz Horseman
- Fortifications from 1982 Border War with China
- Kyrgyz Crew
- Rawhide trucks at Soviet/Chinese gate, Torugart Pass
- Abakah Hoja Tomb, Kashgar
- Kashgar Sunday Market
- Kashgar Sunday Market
- Kashgar Sunday Market
- Kashgar Sunday market, Dried Snakes
- Kashgar Sunday Market
- Chairman Mao over Kashgar
- Ghez River, China
- Kongur Monument near Mustagh Ata, China
- Peggy with Yurt Man
- Peggy Riding a Bactrian Camel
- Chia Camels
- Mausoleums along the Karakorum Highway, China
- Us at Tarim Basin, China
- Tajik Family, China
- Yak Riders, China
- Khunjerab Pass (15500ft)
- Rope Bridge Crossing, Pakistan
- Passu Cathedral, Pakistan
- Hunza, Pakistan
- Karakorum Highway, Pakistan
- Rock Carvings, Hunza, Pakistan
- Bike Group Photo, Hunza, Pakistan
- Last Biking Past Rakaposhi, Pakistan
- Nanga Parbat (8160m), Pakistan
- Colorful Truck, Pakistan
- Buddha Rocks, Indus Valley, Pakistan
- Route Map