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Asia
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Jyrgalan Valley 3-Day Trek to Bulak-Ashuu Lakes
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…
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Karakol & Trekking to Ala-Kul Lake
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,…
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Roadtrip to Saty, Kolsai Lakes, & Kaindy Lake
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…
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Almaty & Big Almaty Lake
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…
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Colorful Zhangye Danxia National Geopark & Leaving China
Wednesday, June 18th – Saturday, June 21st, 2025 World Tour Days 228 – 231 Much like our previous travel days in China, our day started and ended with high speed trains. After traveling over 10 hours on 2 trains we made it all the way from Beijing to Zhangye. We were completely exhausted after arriving.…