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Monday, July 7th – Thursday, July 10th, 2025 World Tour Days: 247 – 250 Day 1: Hiking to Jyrgalan Yurt Camp We opted to do one more backpacking trip during our last days in Kyrgyzstan. Nick found an amazing valley. The pictures looked like the Cascades from Washington, but with hardly any people. We found out too late that we could have just continued the backpacking hike we were already on and it would’ve connected with this one for an 8 day hike instead of a 4 day and 3 day like we did. In total we did just shy…
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Monday, June 30th – Sunday, July 6th, 2025 World Tour Days: 240 – 246 Day 1: Arriving to Karakol We boarded our night bus from Almaty the evening of the 29th which went relatively smoothly thanks to kind strangers helping us. We can’t read Kazakh or Russian so it was tricky to read bus signs, but luckily people guessed where we were going and helped us find the right bus. At around 2am we crossed the border into Kyrgyzstan near Bishkek. The border crossing was one of the most unorganized ones we have ever experienced. Everyone was cutting in line,…
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Wednesday, June 25th – Friday, June 27th, 2025 World Tour Days: 235 – 237 Day 1: Charyn Canyon Luckily for us, Nick found a local rental car dealership that had some cars available for the days we wanted for our roadtrip. The itinerary I had planned is possible with taxis and busses, but it would have been way more inconvenient and expensive. With our rental car we started our Kazakhstan roadtrip with a 2.5 hour drive to Charyn Canyon. We enjoyed our lunch of granola bars, cucumbers, and apples while looking over the canyon. There was also a couple of…
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Saturday, June 21st – Tuesday, June 24th & Saturday, June 28th – Sunday, June 29th, 2025 World Tour Days: 231 – 235 & 238 – 239 The day started with a quick flight from Ürümqi, China to Almaty, Kazakhstan, marking a new country for us on our world tour. The flight had some of the best views we have ever seen on a flight. We flew over mountain ranges, glaciers, lakes, and enjoyed sunset on the tarmac. There were several taxi drivers waiting in the airport terminal trying to get us to go with them for outrageous prices. Instead, we…