Some Long Holidays With My Bicycle ^^

Kokand - Marghilon - Ferghana

12 June

Last stop in the Ferghana Valley. We stay in Marghilon, from where we take the train to Tashkent, and return to Ferghana.
There are lots of vines on the road, on trellises rather than on vines. In Marghilon I see the second drinking water machine of the trip, where people come to help themselves with large cans.
In Ferghana, we saw the statue of the scholar Akmet al Fergani, who created a device for measuring the flow of the Nile (apparently still in place). In Marghilon, we’ll spend some (…)

From Kokand to Rishtom

10 June

A very short stage today to avoid riding in the heatwave.
My first objective is to reach a bike shop marked on OSM and pick up some patches and tubes. I’ve never had so many punctures on a trip, thanks to the tyres provided by the bike shop in Toulouse 😡 The young guy serving me will provide me with some big patches that will do the trick, but he doesn’t have the tube. It’ll be fine, we don’t need to ride much more. I ask how much I owe... no, nothing !!! And as it’s not enough to have (…)

Preparation

Dromen

Towards the Black Sea

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