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Song-Kul Day One – It’s Not Supposed To Be Snowing, It’s Summer

After another big feed at Fatima’s guest house, we shifted all our warm clothes into the one bag, and left everything else behind, because today we are starting…

Altyn Arashan – Alpine Hot Springs

After getting lost yesterday at Jeti Oguz, we took extra precautions this time. I had a second, more detailed trail map, and I also loaded the map into…

Jeti Oguz – All’s Well That Ends Well

Last night before he left, Kas mentioned that he was headed out to a nice hiking area (though not to go hiking himself) called Jeti Oguz and that…

Day 148 – Cradle Mountain (and wombats)

Cold, cold, cold. And wet. Things weren’t looking great for today… Daylight savings meant that we didn’t wake until 7:30, but with the weather the way it was,…

Day 141 – The Grampians

First day in Victoria, and its weather didn’t fail to live up to its reputation… we had at least three seasons this morning (though, not sure the difference…

Day 43 – Chambers Pillar

For the second time in a week, we experienced rain in the ‘dry’ season. Last time we had rain, the day following was beautiful and clear. I was…

Day 25: Kamikochi (Nagano)

During the evening last night, while reading about what there was to do in the area, I re-read the information about Kamikochi (the area that we drove past…