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GregP Jun 2023 1:17pm, 4 Jun 2023 146,137 posts	0 GregP Very droll Bobzo. Yikes. Silk Road 'five Stans' tours seem quite the trendy thing. Apart from a coy 'slightly less stable than its neighbours' comment on some tour website I had no idea about Tajikistan being so, erm, 'dodge'.
cathrobinson Jun 2023 1:32pm, 4 Jun 2023 11,313 posts	0 cathrobinson I’m currently reading Solo by Jenny Tough. She’s done (and won) the Silk Road race as well as run in the mountains over there - solo. It definitely sounds like it has some dodgy moments, and she was perhaps safer in the mountains. It’s a very easy read for someone like me who would be very out of place in the Fetch book club.
Pou Pou LePhoõk Jun 2023 1:38pm, 4 Jun 2023 3,975 posts	0 Pou Pou LePhoõk I went to Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan on an organised cycling trip in, I think, 2008. Had a good time, no obvious corruption then, but I guess being on a group tour you're a bit shielded. It borders Afghanistan, and it was said a lot of drugs come up from there. It seemed a very economically poor country.
Pou Pou LePhoõk Jun 2023 1:41pm, 4 Jun 2023 3,976 posts	0 Pou Pou LePhoõk
GregP Jun 2023 1:58pm, 4 Jun 2023 146,138 posts	0 GregP That’s the kind of picture that gave me the idea. Fabulous.
GregP Jun 2023 1:58pm, 4 Jun 2023 146,139 posts	0 GregP I’d be going with a group definitely.
Derby Tup Jun 2023 2:14pm, 4 Jun 2023 59,817 posts	0 Derby Tup Looks okay but the hill is no Skiddaw
UltraDunc Jun 2023 5:02pm, 4 Jun 2023 16,697 posts	0 UltraDunc And you try telling the kids that!
Hanneke Jun 2023 5:25pm, 4 Jun 2023 104,272 posts	0 Hanneke Grep, my ex bf went and did the Silk Road Bikepacking race a few years ago and he had a few hair-raising moments including guns and men in balaclavas/headscarves... It put me right off. The scenery however is spectacular! But equally good on the MTB trip I did in stead: Atlas Mountains, Jebel Sahro, into the Sahara. Morocco. Much safer and ticked all boxes including no phone reception or electricity for days!
macca 53 Jun 2023 5:25pm, 4 Jun 2023 31,454 posts	0 macca 53 Looks more like Roseberry Topping